Prophecy
Open one box and you'll get $785.52 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,824 right now, so that means you're $1037.98 short.
Cards inside
$785.52
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,824
TCGplayer market · from $1,850
Difference
-$1037.98
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 17, 2026
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.
$785.52 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$785.52
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$533.16
About 68% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
12%
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 12% 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.
-$1037.98
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,824 a box you'd come up about $1037.98 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$785.52
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
$15.15
Whole box
$545.40
$392.40 kept
Share
69%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.81
Whole box
$101.16
$51.48 kept
Share
13%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$1.87
Whole box
$67.32
$33.12 kept
Share
9%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.30
Whole box
$46.80
$36.72 kept
Share
6%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.70
Whole box
$25.20
$19.44 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Rhystic Study
$456.91
You'll open one about 7.2 per box
#2 most valuable
Foil
$239.99
You'll open one about 2.5 per box
#3 most valuable
Avatar of Woe
$227.79
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Overburden
$160.00
Spore Frog
$76.86
Entangler
$71.75
Copper-Leaf Angel
$60.00
Veteran Brawlers
$59.99
Avatar of Might
$54.99
Avatar of Fury
$52.15
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 | $15.50 | 0.82 |
| Overburden | rare | $14.48 | 0.82 |
| Infernal Genesis | rare | $5.67 | 0.82 |
| Vitalizing Wind | rare | $5.18 | 0.82 |
| Rhystic Tutor | rare | $4.64 | 0.82 |
| Squirrel Wrangler | rare | $4.32 | 0.82 |
| Plague Wind | rare | $3.68 | 0.82 |
| Mageta the Lion | rare | $2.70 | 0.82 |
| Dual Nature | rare | $2.69 | 0.82 |
| Jolrael, Empress of Beasts | rare | $2.37 | 0.82 |
| Keldon Firebombers | rare | $2.09 | 0.82 |
| Veteran Brawlers | rare | $1.94 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Fury | rare | $1.68 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Might | rare | $1.65 | 0.82 |
| Copper-Leaf Angel | rare | $1.46 | 0.82 |
| Celestial Convergence | rare | $1.45 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Will | rare | $1.32 | 0.82 |
| Avatar of Hope | rare | $0.78 | 0.82 |
| Searing Wind | rare | $0.74 | 0.82 |
| Greel, Mind Raker | rare | $0.57 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
