Ravnica: City of Guilds
Open one box and you'll get $260.64 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,177 right now, so that means you're $916.16 short.
Cards inside
$260.64
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,177
TCGplayer market · from $1,421
Difference
-$916.16
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 8, 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.
$260.64 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$260.64
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$85.68
About 33% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
47%
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 47% 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.
-$916.16
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,177 a box you'd come up about $916.16 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$260.64
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
$2.96
Whole box
$106.56
$11.16 kept
Share
41%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$2.72
Whole box
$97.92
$58.32 kept
Share
38%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.93
Whole box
$33.48
$2.52 kept
Share
13%
Foil common or basic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.31
Whole box
$11.16
$6.12 kept
Share
4%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.22
Whole box
$7.92
$6.12 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.09
Whole box
$3.24
$1.80 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Watery Grave
$153.33
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Doubling Season
$107.69
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Sacred Foundry
$100.00
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Life from the Loam
$98.48
Overgrown Tomb
$90.59
Temple Garden
$70.00
Chord of Calling
$57.53
Dark Confidant
$51.27
Breath of Fury
$37.81
Sunforger
$28.84
88 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.
| Doubling Season | rare | $31.43 | 0.41 |
| Sacred Foundry | rare | $22.54 | 0.41 |
| Watery Grave | rare | $18.16 | 0.41 |
| Temple Garden | rare | $15.49 | 0.41 |
| Overgrown Tomb | rare | $14.40 | 0.41 |
| Dark Confidant | rare | $11.73 | 0.41 |
| Breath of Fury | rare | $11.48 | 0.41 |
| Birds of Paradise | rare | $11.05 | 0.41 |
| Cloudstone Curio | rare | $9.16 | 0.41 |
| Life from the Loam | rare | $7.99 | 0.41 |
| Concerted Effort | rare | $6.28 | 0.41 |
| Chord of Calling | rare | $5.49 | 0.41 |
| Flame Fusillade | rare | $3.90 | 0.41 |
| Hunted Phantasm | rare | $3.77 | 0.41 |
| Tunnel Vision | rare | $3.55 | 0.41 |
| Privileged Position | rare | $3.22 | 0.41 |
| Glimpse the Unthinkable | rare | $3.20 | 0.41 |
| Sunforger | rare | $3.18 | 0.41 |
| Hunted Horror | rare | $3.18 | 0.41 |
| Pariah's Shield | rare | $2.98 | 0.41 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
