Shadows over Innistrad
Open one box and you'll get $100.08 of cards, on average. A box costs $228 right now, so that means you're $127.83 short.
Cards inside
$100.08
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$228
TCGplayer market · from $359
Difference
-$127.83
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.
$100.08 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$100.08
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$21.96
About 22% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
68%
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 68% 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.
-$127.83
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $228 a box you'd come up about $127.83 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$100.08
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.
Single-faced rare or mythic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.04
Whole box
$37.44
$17.64 kept
Share
37%
Single-faced commons
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.85
Whole box
$30.60
$1.08 kept
Share
31%
Single-faced uncommons
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.61
Whole box
$21.96
$1.80 kept
Share
22%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.16
Whole box
$5.76
$1.44 kept
Share
6%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.12
Whole box
$4.32
$0.00 kept
Share
4%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Eerie Interlude
$14.06
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#2 most valuable
Relentless Dead
$13.50
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Cryptolith Rite
$12.52
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Sorin, Grim Nemesis
$10.65
Diregraf Colossus
$7.56
Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
$7.32
Open the Armory
$7.18
The Gitrog Monster
$5.72
Alms of the Vein
$5.48
Essence Flux
$5.44
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.
| Cryptolith Rite | rare | $12.52 | 0.61 |
| Relentless Dead | mythic | $11.11 | 0.31 |
| Eerie Interlude | rare | $7.72 | 0.61 |
| Diregraf Colossus | rare | $5.59 | 0.61 |
| Second Harvest | rare | $4.48 | 0.61 |
| Sorin, Grim Nemesis | mythic | $4.23 | 0.31 |
| Anguished Unmaking | rare | $2.43 | 0.61 |
| Jace, Unraveler of Secrets | mythic | $2.29 | 0.31 |
| Seasons Past | mythic | $1.73 | 0.31 |
| The Gitrog Monster | mythic | $1.32 | 0.31 |
| Fevered Visions | rare | $1.10 | 0.61 |
| Always Watching | rare | $1.06 | 0.61 |
| Behold the Beyond | mythic | $0.89 | 0.31 |
| Ulvenwald Hydra | mythic | $0.76 | 0.31 |
| Silverfur Partisan | rare | $0.66 | 0.61 |
| Tamiyo's Journal | rare | $0.65 | 0.61 |
| Choked Estuary | rare | $0.64 | 0.61 |
| Olivia, Mobilized for War | mythic | $0.63 | 0.31 |
| Traverse the Ulvenwald | rare | $0.60 | 0.61 |
| Odric, Lunarch Marshal | rare | $0.56 | 0.61 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
