Strixhaven: School of Mages
Open one box and you'll get $198.00 of cards, on average. A box costs $195 right now, so that means you're +$2.58 ahead.
Cards inside
$198.00
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$195
TCGplayer market · from $188
Difference
+$2.58
In your favour
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 August 29, 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.
$198.00 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$198.00
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$61.92
About 31% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
54%
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 54% 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.
+$2.58
per box, in your favour
The cards are worth more than the box
At $195 a box you'd come out about $2.58 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.
Break-even price
$198.00
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.
Mystical Archive
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.92
Whole box
$69.12
$39.96 kept
Share
35%
Nonlesson common
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.43
Whole box
$51.48
$1.08 kept
Share
26%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.88
Whole box
$31.68
$4.68 kept
Share
16%
Nonlesson rare mythic
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.80
Whole box
$28.80
$11.16 kept
Share
15%
Foil incl. showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.27
Whole box
$9.72
$5.04 kept
Share
5%
Lesson card
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$7.56
$0.36 kept
Share
4%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Demonic Tutor
$129.59
You'll open one about 1 every 6 boxes
#2 most valuable
Teferi's Protection
$66.22
You'll open one about 1 every 6 boxes
#3 most valuable
Tainted Pact
$58.47
You'll open one about 1 every 6 boxes
Shadrix Silverquill
$45.10
Beledros Witherbloom
$42.47
Natural Order
$39.86
Professor Onyx
$36.35
Time Warp
$22.99
Dark Ritual
$19.98
Ephemerate
$17.67
126 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 | $75.93 | 0.17 |
| Teferi's Protection | mythic | $49.29 | 0.17 |
| Tainted Pact | mythic | $29.35 | 0.17 |
| Natural Order | mythic | $25.95 | 0.17 |
| Beledros Witherbloom | mythic | $15.20 | 0.08 |
| Time Warp | mythic | $12.10 | 0.17 |
| Professor Onyx | mythic | $11.97 | 0.08 |
| Dark Ritual | rare | $11.16 | 0.34 |
| Mizzix's Mastery | mythic | $10.49 | 0.17 |
| Shadrix Silverquill | mythic | $9.66 | 0.08 |
| Approach of the Second Sun | mythic | $8.52 | 0.17 |
| Blue Sun's Zenith | mythic | $8.22 | 0.17 |
| Crackle with Power | mythic | $7.78 | 0.25 |
| Chaos Warp | mythic | $7.06 | 0.17 |
| Ephemerate | rare | $6.90 | 0.34 |
| Counterspell | rare | $6.43 | 0.34 |
| Increasing Vengeance | mythic | $6.40 | 0.17 |
| Professor Onyx | mythic | $5.80 | 0.17 |
| Blade Historian | rare | $5.76 | 0.50 |
| Velomachus Lorehold | mythic | $5.47 | 0.08 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
