Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

$264 short of list

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collector Booster Box

Open one box and you'll get $175.20 of cards, on average. A box costs $439 right now, so that means you're $263.65 short.

Cards inside

$175.20

Everything in the box, at today's prices

Box costs now

$439

TCGplayer market · from $300

Difference

-$263.65

Against you

Packs in the box

12

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.

And if you sold the cards?

$175.20 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.

Worth to a buyer

$175.20

Every card at market price

What you'd keep

$87.84

About 50% of it, sold card by card

Stuck as bulk

27%

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 27% 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.

What does a box cost you?

We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.

$
$20$1,100

-$263.65

per box, against you

You would do better buying the singles

At $439 a box you'd come up about $263.65 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.

Break-even price

$175.20

Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.

Where the value comes from

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

$7.55

Whole box

$90.60

$63.36 kept

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52%

Nonfoil boosterfun tmc

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$2.17

Whole box

$26.04

$11.40 kept

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15%

Foil rare or mythic

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.62

Whole box

$19.44

$7.56 kept

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11%

Foil commons

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.05

Whole box

$12.60

$0.24 kept

Share

7%

Foil land

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$1.00

Whole box

$12.00

$2.04 kept

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7%

Foil uncommons

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$0.90

Whole box

$10.80

$0.12 kept

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6%

Surge foil boosterfun tmc

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$0.30

Whole box

$3.60

$3.00 kept

Share

2%

Nonfoil commander card

One of the card positions in every pack of this product.

Per pack

$0.00

Whole box

$0.00

$0.00 kept

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0%

Nonfoil source material card

One of the card positions in every pack of this product.

Per pack

$0.00

Whole box

$0.00

$0.00 kept

Share

0%

Foil source material card

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$0.00

Whole box

$0.00

$0.00 kept

Share

0%

Surge foil commander

One of the card positions in every pack of this product.

Per pack

$0.00

Whole box

$0.00

$0.00 kept

Share

0%

The cards you're hoping to hit

The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.

#1 most valuable

Leonardo, Sewer Samurai

Leonardo, Sewer Samurai

$2957.03

You'll open one Not in this booster

#2 most valuable

Donatello, Mutant Mechanic

Donatello, Mutant Mechanic

$2700.00

You'll open one Not in this booster

#3 most valuable

Michelangelo, Improviser

Michelangelo, Improviser

$2250.00

You'll open one Not in this booster

4Raphael, Ninja Destroyer

Raphael, Ninja Destroyer

mythicNot in this booster

$2175.00

5Super Shredder

Super Shredder

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$327.16

6Krang, Utrom Warlord

Krang, Utrom Warlord

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$186.72

7Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11

Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$146.40

8Raphael, the Nightwatcher

Raphael, the Nightwatcher

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$134.07

9Dark Leo & Shredder

Dark Leo & Shredder

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$129.37

10Donatello, Gadget Master

Donatello, Gadget Master

mythicabout 1 every 100 boxes

$99.48

Every rare and mythic in the set

164 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.

Super Shreddermythic$29.510.18
Krang, Utrom Warlordmythic$25.380.18
Krang, Utrom Warlordmythic$23.270.10
Super Shreddermythic$17.700.10
Dark Leo & Shreddermythic$13.050.18
Cool but Ruderare$8.410.20
Michelangelo, Improvisermythic$7.680.18
Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Orderrare$6.260.36
The Oozerare$6.250.36
Leonardo, Sewer Samuraimythic$5.570.18
Raphael, Ninja Destroyermythic$5.520.18
Donatello, Mutant Mechanicmythic$5.510.18
Raph & Mikey, Troublemakersrare$5.230.36
Michelangelo, Weirdness to 11rare$4.670.36
Technodromemythic$4.640.18
Mikey & Leo, Chaos & Orderrare$4.250.36
The Oozerare$3.940.20
Triceraton Commandermythic$3.410.18
South Wind Avatarrare$3.380.36
Dark Leo & Shreddermythic$3.370.10

Compare with other boxes

Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.

Questions people ask

It's the average value of the cards in a box. Imagine opening a thousand boxes of this set and adding up every card at its market price — divide by a thousand and you get $175.20. It is not what your box will be worth. Most boxes come in lower, because a small number of very expensive cards drag the average up.