Prophecy
Open one box and you'll get $507.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,824 right now, so that means you're $1315.90 short.
Cards inside
$507.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,824
TCGplayer market · from $1,850
Difference
-$1315.90
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked September 2, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated December 5, 2025
This is an average. A few very expensive cards pull it upward, so most individual boxes land below it. Opening one box is closer to a lottery ticket than an investment — the number below tells you whether the lottery is priced fairly.
$507.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$507.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$329.40
About 65% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
18%
Cards worth more by the thousand than listed
Two things separate the two figures. Fees take 10.75% commission plus 2.5% and $0.30 on every order, and postage on a single card runs about $1.10 — a bite a cheap card cannot absorb. And 18% of the box's value sits in cards below roughly $1.66, the point where a card is worth more thrown into a bulk lot at $0.04 a rare than listed, packed and posted. Selling the whole box to a buylist in one go pays less again.
Assumes one card per order, which is the cautious reading — a buyer taking several cards at once splits the fixed costs between them. Fees are TCGplayer Marketplace rates as of February 2026; bulk rates are current cash buylist.
We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.
-$1315.90
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,824 a box you'd come up about $1315.90 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$507.60
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
Every pack has a few fixed positions — a guaranteed rare, a wildcard, a foil. Here's what each one is worth across the whole box.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$9.48
Whole box
$341.28
$243.36 kept
Share
67%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.92
Whole box
$69.12
$29.52 kept
Share
14%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$1.33
Whole box
$47.88
$19.08 kept
Share
9%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.92
Whole box
$33.12
$25.20 kept
Share
7%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.25
Whole box
$9.00
$6.48 kept
Share
2%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.20
Whole box
$7.20
$5.76 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Rhystic Study
$314.50
You'll open one about 7.2 per box
#2 most valuable
Foil
$151.66
You'll open one about 2.5 per box
#3 most valuable
Avatar of Woe
$114.93
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Overburden
$69.22
Copper-Leaf Angel
$51.39
Avatar of Fury
$49.49
Rhystic Tutor
$49.25
Spore Frog
$43.58
Squirrel Wrangler
$37.68
Infernal Genesis
$36.66
44 cards. “Copies per box” is how many of that exact card you'd expect from one box on average — under 1 means you usually won't see it at all.
| Avatar of Woe | rare | $11.66 | 0.82 |
| Overburden | rare | $9.42 | 0.82 |
| Rhystic Tutor | rare | $4.38 | 0.82 |
| Plague Wind | rare | $2.96 | 0.82 |
| Infernal Genesis | rare | $2.82 | 0.82 |
| Squirrel Wrangler | rare | $2.32 | 0.82 |
| Keldon Firebombers | rare | $2.24 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Fury | rare | $2.19 | 0.82 |
| Dual Nature | rare | $1.99 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Might | rare | $1.64 | 0.82 |
| Celestial Convergence | rare | $1.47 | 0.82 |
| Copper-Leaf Angel | rare | $1.31 | 0.82 |
| Vitalizing Wind | rare | $1.21 | 0.82 |
| Mageta the Lion | rare | $0.96 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Hope | rare | $0.92 | 0.82 |
| Greel, Mind Raker | rare | $0.85 | 0.82 |
| Jolrael, Empress of Beasts | rare | $0.83 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Will | rare | $0.69 | 0.82 |
| Denying Wind | rare | $0.58 | 0.82 |
| Searing Wind | rare | $0.55 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
