The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Open one box and you'll get $707.76 of cards, on average. A box costs $2,066 right now, so that means you're $1358.02 short.
Cards inside
$707.76
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$2,066
TCGplayer market · from $2,046
Difference
-$1358.02
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 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.
$707.76 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$707.76
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$495.00
About 70% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
9%
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 9% 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.
-$1358.02
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $2,066 a box you'd come up about $1358.02 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$707.76
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.
Rare mythic showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$15.30
Whole box
$183.60
$142.56 kept
Share
26%
Foil rare mythic showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$7.69
Whole box
$92.28
$64.44 kept
Share
13%
Extended-art core rare mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$6.94
Whole box
$83.28
$60.12 kept
Share
12%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$6.07
Whole box
$72.84
$51.12 kept
Share
10%
Nonfoil sol ring
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$5.17
Whole box
$62.04
$53.52 kept
Share
9%
Extended-art jump starter rare mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$4.71
Whole box
$56.52
$35.04 kept
Share
8%
Borderless scene
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.68
Whole box
$44.16
$30.72 kept
Share
6%
Uncommon showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.97
Whole box
$23.64
$16.80 kept
Share
3%
Serialized sol ring
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$1.81
Whole box
$21.72
$18.84 kept
Share
3%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.53
Whole box
$18.36
$2.40 kept
Share
3%
Foil uncommon showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.39
Whole box
$16.68
$9.00 kept
Share
2%
Everything else
4 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$2.71
Whole box
$32.52
$10.32 kept
Share
5%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Sol Ring
$3750.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#2 most valuable
Sol Ring
$2750.00
You'll open one Not in this booster
#3 most valuable
Sol Ring
$2150.99
You'll open one about 1 every 100 boxes
Sol Ring
$605.46
Sol Ring
$492.75
Ancient Tomb
$468.05
The One Ring
$351.88
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
$319.50
Gemstone Caverns
$318.49
Cavern of Souls
$240.92
331 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.
| Sol Ring | mythic | $2150.99 | 0.01 |
| Sol Ring | mythic | $605.46 | 0.03 |
| Sol Ring | mythic | $492.75 | 0.04 |
| Ancient Tomb | mythic | $189.00 | 0.13 |
| The One Ring | mythic | $139.86 | 0.18 |
| Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth | mythic | $121.82 | 0.13 |
| The One Ring | mythic | $109.97 | 0.09 |
| The One Ring | mythic | $107.98 | 0.26 |
| The Great Henge | mythic | $92.47 | 0.13 |
| The Ozolith | mythic | $91.23 | 0.13 |
| Cavern of Souls | mythic | $90.10 | 0.13 |
| Gemstone Caverns | mythic | $79.63 | 0.13 |
| Shadowspear | mythic | $78.90 | 0.13 |
| Minamo, School at Water's Edge | mythic | $61.18 | 0.13 |
| Cabal Coffers | mythic | $59.50 | 0.13 |
| Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth | mythic | $52.25 | 0.13 |
| Orcish Bowmasters | rare | $49.09 | 0.52 |
| Orcish Bowmasters | rare | $40.97 | 0.17 |
| Bojuka Bog | mythic | $36.50 | 0.13 |
| Delighted Halfling | rare | $30.51 | 0.37 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
