Scars of Mirrodin
Open one box and you'll get $384.84 of cards, on average. A box costs $704 right now, so that means you're $319.40 short.
Cards inside
$384.84
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$704
TCGplayer market · from $720
Difference
-$319.40
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 15, 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.
$384.84 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$384.84
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$182.52
About 47% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
30%
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 30% 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.
-$319.40
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $704 a box you'd come up about $319.40 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$384.84
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
$5.19
Whole box
$186.84
$129.24 kept
Share
49%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.72
Whole box
$97.92
$14.04 kept
Share
25%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.55
Whole box
$55.80
$13.68 kept
Share
14%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.04
Whole box
$37.44
$25.92 kept
Share
10%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.19
Whole box
$6.84
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mox Opal
$518.98
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
$58.69
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Platinum Emperion
$42.31
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Contagion Engine
$40.39
Grafted Exoskeleton
$35.33
Asceticism
$35.04
Memnite
$31.47
Semblance Anvil
$31.25
Venser's Journal
$30.44
Tainted Strike
$30.21
68 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.
| Mox Opal | mythic | $243.40 | 0.31 |
| Ezuri, Renegade Leader | rare | $23.27 | 0.62 |
| Platinum Emperion | mythic | $19.40 | 0.31 |
| Sword of Body and Mind | mythic | $19.30 | 0.31 |
| Contagion Engine | rare | $14.06 | 0.62 |
| Kuldotha Forgemaster | rare | $12.77 | 0.62 |
| Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon | mythic | $12.41 | 0.31 |
| Wurmcoil Engine | mythic | $11.41 | 0.31 |
| Venser's Journal | rare | $10.56 | 0.62 |
| Venser, the Sojourner | mythic | $8.20 | 0.31 |
| Hand of the Praetors | rare | $7.09 | 0.62 |
| Asceticism | rare | $6.70 | 0.62 |
| Semblance Anvil | rare | $5.92 | 0.62 |
| True Conviction | rare | $5.33 | 0.62 |
| Dissipation Field | rare | $4.95 | 0.62 |
| Nim Deathmantle | rare | $4.90 | 0.62 |
| Mindslaver | mythic | $4.51 | 0.31 |
| Molten Psyche | rare | $4.48 | 0.62 |
| Inexorable Tide | rare | $4.37 | 0.62 |
| Elspeth Tirel | mythic | $4.35 | 0.31 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
