Tempest
Open one box and you'll get $1056.60 of cards, on average. A box costs $3,000 right now, so that means you're $1943.35 short.
Cards inside
$1056.60
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$3,000
TCGplayer market · from $14,995
Difference
-$1943.35
Against you
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.
$1056.60 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$1056.60
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$710.28
About 67% 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.
-$1943.35
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $3,000 a box you'd come up about $1943.35 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$1056.60
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
$13.73
Whole box
$494.28
$389.16 kept
Share
47%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$8.22
Whole box
$295.92
$145.44 kept
Share
28%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$7.39
Whole box
$266.04
$175.68 kept
Share
25%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Intuition
$358.65
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Earthcraft
$287.70
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ancient Tomb
$122.88
You'll open one about 1 per box
Aluren
$100.16
Cursed Scroll
$91.65
Eladamri, Lord of Leaves
$71.57
Humility
$71.54
Wasteland
$50.08
Reflecting Pool
$45.26
Scroll Rack
$40.11
110 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.
| Intuition | rare | $358.65 | 0.33 |
| Earthcraft | rare | $287.70 | 0.33 |
| Aluren | rare | $100.16 | 0.33 |
| Cursed Scroll | rare | $91.65 | 0.33 |
| Eladamri, Lord of Leaves | rare | $71.57 | 0.33 |
| Humility | rare | $71.54 | 0.33 |
| Reflecting Pool | rare | $45.26 | 0.33 |
| Scroll Rack | rare | $40.11 | 0.33 |
| Corpse Dance | rare | $31.96 | 0.33 |
| Ruby Medallion | rare | $30.43 | 0.33 |
| Mirri's Guile | rare | $30.23 | 0.33 |
| Meditate | rare | $28.46 | 0.33 |
| Jet Medallion | rare | $26.30 | 0.33 |
| Altar of Dementia | rare | $26.06 | 0.33 |
| Sapphire Medallion | rare | $24.47 | 0.33 |
| Time Warp | rare | $16.20 | 0.33 |
| Sarcomancy | rare | $16.01 | 0.33 |
| Grindstone | rare | $13.72 | 0.33 |
| Living Death | rare | $12.98 | 0.33 |
| Pearl Medallion | rare | $11.36 | 0.33 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
