Tarkir: Dragonstorm
Open one box and you'll get $388.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $498 right now, so that means you're $109.00 short.
Cards inside
$388.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$498
TCGplayer market · from $498
Difference
-$109.00
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.
$388.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$388.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$253.32
About 65% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
13%
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 13% 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.
-$109.00
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $498 a box you'd come up about $109.00 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$388.68
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 booster fun treatment
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$15.93
Whole box
$191.16
$151.56 kept
Share
49%
Booster Fun treatment
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.94
Whole box
$59.28
$35.40 kept
Share
15%
Commander card
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$2.89
Whole box
$34.68
$18.36 kept
Share
9%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.82
Whole box
$33.84
$20.88 kept
Share
9%
Foil basic land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.33
Whole box
$27.96
$14.76 kept
Share
7%
Nonfoil basic land
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.43
Whole box
$17.16
$12.12 kept
Share
4%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.88
Whole box
$10.56
$0.12 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.88
Whole box
$10.56
$0.12 kept
Share
3%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$3.48
$0.00 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mox Jasper
$2824.99
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Misty Rainforest
$620.83
You'll open one about 1 every 50 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ugin, Eye of the Storms
$465.32
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Scalding Tarn
$447.75
Marsh Flats
$398.22
Arid Mesa
$375.15
Verdant Catacombs
$358.09
Craterhoof Behemoth
$336.38
Elspeth, Storm Slayer
$320.41
Dracogenesis
$138.94
243 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.
| Scalding Tarn | mythic | $70.26 | 0.07 |
| Misty Rainforest | mythic | $51.18 | 0.07 |
| Verdant Catacombs | mythic | $49.16 | 0.07 |
| Elspeth, Storm Slayer | mythic | $46.15 | 0.24 |
| Marsh Flats | mythic | $46.11 | 0.07 |
| Arid Mesa | mythic | $44.49 | 0.07 |
| Elspeth, Storm Slayer | mythic | $44.15 | 0.09 |
| Ugin, Eye of the Storms | mythic | $40.15 | 0.09 |
| Craterhoof Behemoth | mythic | $27.97 | 0.20 |
| Craterhoof Behemoth | mythic | $25.23 | 0.09 |
| Ureni of the Unwritten | mythic | $21.43 | 0.13 |
| Voice of Victory | rare | $20.88 | 0.49 |
| Voice of Victory | rare | $20.63 | 0.17 |
| Mox Jasper | mythic | $18.98 | 0.17 |
| Betor, Kin to All | mythic | $18.34 | 0.17 |
| Dracogenesis | mythic | $15.93 | 0.17 |
| Ruinous Ultimatum | mythic | $14.46 | 0.07 |
| Mox Jasper | mythic | $12.68 | 0.09 |
| Dracogenesis | mythic | $11.56 | 0.09 |
| Goldlust Triad | rare | $11.00 | 0.27 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
