Secrets of Strixhaven
Open one box and you'll get $342.24 of cards, on average. A box costs $503 right now, so that means you're $160.42 short.
Cards inside
$342.24
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$503
TCGplayer market · from $487
Difference
-$160.42
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Each holds one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 8, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 8, 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.
$342.24 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$342.24
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$207.12
About 61% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
17%
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 17% 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.
-$160.42
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $503 a box you'd come up about $160.42 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$342.24
Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.
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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.
Foil booster fun treatment
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$10.06
Whole box
$120.72
$93.12 kept
Share
35%
Nonfoil r m mystical archive
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$6.40
Whole box
$76.80
$55.20 kept
Share
22%
Foil r m mystical archive
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.88
Whole box
$34.56
$24.12 kept
Share
10%
Booster Fun treatment
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.80
Whole box
$21.60
$9.96 kept
Share
6%
Foil u mystical archive
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.57
Whole box
$18.84
$10.68 kept
Share
6%
Commander card
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.31
Whole box
$15.72
$7.32 kept
Share
5%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.17
Whole box
$14.04
$5.16 kept
Share
4%
Foil land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.90
Whole box
$10.80
$0.00 kept
Share
3%
Nonfoil u mystical archive
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.84
Whole box
$10.08
$0.84 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.81
Whole box
$9.72
$0.48 kept
Share
3%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.78
Whole box
$9.36
$0.12 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Force of Will
$963.63
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
#2 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$612.71
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
#3 most valuable
Jeska's Will
$457.52
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
Cyclonic Rift
$341.32
Ad Nauseam
$231.90
Flusterstorm
$198.92
Force of Will
$169.02
Crop Rotation
$117.49
Awaken the Woods
$112.51
Vampiric Tutor
$107.73
312 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.
| Force of Will | mythic | $169.02 | 0.06 |
| Vampiric Tutor | mythic | $107.73 | 0.06 |
| Jeska's Will | mythic | $81.53 | 0.06 |
| Cyclonic Rift | mythic | $79.15 | 0.06 |
| Force of Will | mythic | $62.85 | 0.12 |
| Vampiric Tutor | mythic | $55.28 | 0.12 |
| Jeska's Will | mythic | $44.99 | 0.12 |
| Ad Nauseam | mythic | $32.49 | 0.06 |
| Cyclonic Rift | mythic | $31.97 | 0.12 |
| Sylvan Library | mythic | $28.26 | 0.05 |
| Flusterstorm | mythic | $20.69 | 0.06 |
| Akroma's Will | mythic | $20.55 | 0.12 |
| Awaken the Woods | mythic | $20.47 | 0.06 |
| Akroma's Will | mythic | $19.50 | 0.06 |
| Crop Rotation | rare | $17.38 | 0.12 |
| Triumph of the Hordes | mythic | $14.22 | 0.12 |
| Improvisation Capstone | mythic | $13.73 | 0.16 |
| Awaken the Woods | mythic | $13.35 | 0.12 |
| Germination Practicum | mythic | $12.42 | 0.16 |
| Preordain | rare | $11.41 | 0.12 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
