Stronghold
Open one box and you'll get $1749.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $4,249 right now, so that means you're $2499.38 short.
Cards inside
$1749.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$4,249
TCGplayer market · from $5,013
Difference
-$2499.38
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 16, 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.
$1749.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$1749.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$1330.92
About 76% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
7%
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 7% 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.
-$2499.38
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $4,249 a box you'd come up about $2499.38 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$1749.60
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$41.16
Whole box
$1481.76
$1240.92 kept
Share
85%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$4.36
Whole box
$156.96
$77.76 kept
Share
9%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.07
Whole box
$110.52
$12.24 kept
Share
6%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mox Diamond
$1117.50
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Sliver Queen
$309.12
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Volrath's Stronghold
$140.06
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Burgeoning
$35.84
Dream Halls
$33.26
Grave Pact
$32.30
Constant Mists
$19.28
Horn of Greed
$19.06
Mortuary
$18.22
Volrath's Shapeshifter
$14.36
44 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 Diamond | rare | $1117.50 | 0.82 |
| Sliver Queen | rare | $309.12 | 0.82 |
| Volrath's Stronghold | rare | $140.06 | 0.82 |
| Burgeoning | rare | $35.84 | 0.82 |
| Dream Halls | rare | $33.26 | 0.82 |
| Grave Pact | rare | $32.30 | 0.82 |
| Horn of Greed | rare | $19.06 | 0.82 |
| Mortuary | rare | $18.22 | 0.82 |
| Volrath's Shapeshifter | rare | $14.36 | 0.82 |
| Ensnaring Bridge | rare | $14.21 | 0.82 |
| Hermit Druid | rare | $10.91 | 0.82 |
| Awakening | rare | $6.72 | 0.82 |
| Intruder Alarm | rare | $6.54 | 0.82 |
| Shaman en-Kor | rare | $6.00 | 0.82 |
| Ruination | rare | $5.52 | 0.82 |
| Thalakos Deceiver | rare | $4.24 | 0.82 |
| Sacred Ground | rare | $4.13 | 0.82 |
| Reins of Power | rare | $3.63 | 0.82 |
| Mogg Infestation | rare | $3.44 | 0.82 |
| Jinxed Ring | rare | $3.32 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
