Ravnica Allegiance
Open one box and you'll get $180.00 of cards, on average. A box costs $156 right now, so that means you're +$23.69 ahead.
Cards inside
$180.00
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$156
TCGplayer market · from $150
Difference
+$23.69
In your favour
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.
$180.00 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$180.00
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$68.76
About 38% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
46%
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 46% 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.
+$23.69
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $156 a box you'd come out about $23.69 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$180.00
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.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$2.54
Whole box
$91.44
$56.16 kept
Share
51%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.24
Whole box
$44.64
$1.44 kept
Share
25%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.81
Whole box
$29.16
$6.48 kept
Share
16%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$9.72
$4.68 kept
Share
5%
Land
The land slot. In recent sets this can be a valuable nonbasic.
Per pack
$0.15
Whole box
$5.40
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Smothering Tithe
$60.69
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Prime Speaker Vannifar
$32.94
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Blood Crypt
$19.93
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Biomancer's Familiar
$18.61
Hallowed Fountain
$14.93
Verity Circle
$14.82
Guardian Project
$14.19
Godless Shrine
$14.01
Breeding Pool
$14.00
Rakdos, the Showstopper
$12.66
63 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.
| Smothering Tithe | rare | $54.46 | 0.62 |
| Guardian Project | rare | $13.78 | 0.62 |
| Blood Crypt | rare | $10.92 | 0.62 |
| Breeding Pool | rare | $9.88 | 0.62 |
| Prime Speaker Vannifar | mythic | $9.25 | 0.31 |
| Stomping Ground | rare | $8.27 | 0.62 |
| Godless Shrine | rare | $8.21 | 0.62 |
| Hallowed Fountain | rare | $7.72 | 0.62 |
| Captive Audience | mythic | $3.59 | 0.31 |
| Rakdos, the Showstopper | mythic | $2.92 | 0.31 |
| Incubation Druid | rare | $2.49 | 0.62 |
| Teysa Karlov | rare | $2.47 | 0.62 |
| Mass Manipulation | rare | $2.32 | 0.62 |
| Biomancer's Familiar | rare | $2.13 | 0.62 |
| Mirror March | rare | $1.95 | 0.62 |
| Electrodominance | rare | $1.43 | 0.62 |
| Simic Ascendancy | rare | $1.41 | 0.62 |
| Biogenic Ooze | mythic | $1.16 | 0.31 |
| Priest of Forgotten Gods | rare | $1.10 | 0.62 |
| Verity Circle | rare | $0.94 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
