Strixhaven: School of Mages
Open one box and you'll get $243.12 of cards, on average. A box costs $628 right now, so that means you're $385.16 short.
Cards inside
$243.12
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$628
TCGplayer market · from $598
Difference
-$385.16
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
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.
$243.12 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$243.12
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$141.96
About 58% 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.
-$385.16
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $628 a box you'd come up about $385.16 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$243.12
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.
Foil alt art wild
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$10.41
Whole box
$124.92
$94.80 kept
Share
51%
Extended-art commander card
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$3.96
Whole box
$47.52
$27.96 kept
Share
20%
Extended-art or borderless core
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.65
Whole box
$19.80
$9.12 kept
Share
8%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.08
Whole box
$12.96
$0.84 kept
Share
5%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.01
Whole box
$12.12
$4.80 kept
Share
5%
Foil sta uncommon
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.99
Whole box
$11.88
$2.52 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.92
Whole box
$11.04
$1.68 kept
Share
5%
Everything else
5 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.25
Whole box
$3.00
$0.12 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Demonic Tutor
$528.42
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#2 most valuable
Tainted Pact
$163.71
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
#3 most valuable
Demonic Tutor
$125.66
You'll open one about 1 every 25 boxes
Teferi's Protection
$105.88
Dark Ritual
$79.94
Teferi's Protection
$67.33
Time Warp
$55.78
Tainted Pact
$54.82
Ephemerate
$51.02
Swords to Plowshares
$48.66
318 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.
| Demonic Tutor | mythic | $278.52 | 0.04 |
| Demonic Tutor | mythic | $78.52 | 0.04 |
| Teferi's Protection | mythic | $67.75 | 0.04 |
| Tainted Pact | mythic | $59.89 | 0.04 |
| Teferi's Protection | mythic | $52.38 | 0.04 |
| Dark Ritual | rare | $49.16 | 0.08 |
| Tainted Pact | mythic | $29.73 | 0.04 |
| Swords to Plowshares | rare | $29.61 | 0.08 |
| Natural Order | mythic | $28.06 | 0.04 |
| Ephemerate | rare | $27.73 | 0.08 |
| Counterspell | rare | $26.88 | 0.08 |
| Time Warp | mythic | $25.75 | 0.04 |
| Natural Order | mythic | $25.63 | 0.04 |
| Grapeshot | rare | $23.31 | 0.08 |
| Breena, the Demagogue | mythic | $23.12 | 0.08 |
| Brainstorm | rare | $22.06 | 0.08 |
| Chaos Warp | mythic | $19.68 | 0.04 |
| Approach of the Second Sun | mythic | $19.39 | 0.04 |
| Faithless Looting | rare | $19.32 | 0.08 |
| Witch's Clinic | rare | $18.73 | 0.16 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
