Throne of Eldraine
Open one box and you'll get $172.44 of cards, on average. A box costs $192 right now, so that means you're $19.10 short.
Cards inside
$172.44
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$192
TCGplayer market · from $190
Difference
-$19.10
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.
$172.44 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$172.44
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$42.48
About 25% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
57%
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 57% 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.
-$19.10
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $192 a box you'd come up about $19.10 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$172.44
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 or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$1.77
Whole box
$63.72
$33.48 kept
Share
37%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.62
Whole box
$58.32
$2.52 kept
Share
34%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.91
Whole box
$32.76
$2.16 kept
Share
19%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$0.25
Whole box
$9.00
$3.60 kept
Share
5%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.21
Whole box
$7.56
$0.00 kept
Share
4%
Rare mythic showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.03
Whole box
$1.08
$0.72 kept
Share
1%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
The Great Henge
$70.43
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Oko, Thief of Crowns
$29.22
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#3 most valuable
Oko, Thief of Crowns
$13.09
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Embercleave
$12.74
Wishclaw Talisman
$11.19
Ayara, First of Locthwain
$10.82
Castle Garenbrig
$9.36
Mirrormade
$8.76
Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
$6.25
Faeburrow Elder
$6.10
64 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.
| The Great Henge | mythic | $63.18 | 0.30 |
| Embercleave | mythic | $10.76 | 0.30 |
| Oko, Thief of Crowns | mythic | $10.44 | 0.09 |
| Castle Garenbrig | rare | $9.36 | 0.60 |
| Ayara, First of Locthwain | rare | $7.97 | 0.60 |
| Oko, Thief of Crowns | mythic | $5.45 | 0.30 |
| Torbran, Thane of Red Fell | rare | $5.43 | 0.60 |
| Wishclaw Talisman | rare | $4.31 | 0.60 |
| Questing Beast | mythic | $4.01 | 0.30 |
| Castle Locthwain | rare | $3.66 | 0.60 |
| The Magic Mirror | mythic | $3.21 | 0.30 |
| Mirrormade | rare | $2.96 | 0.60 |
| Rankle, Master of Pranks | mythic | $2.81 | 0.30 |
| Folio of Fancies | rare | $2.73 | 0.60 |
| Emry, Lurker of the Loch | rare | $2.50 | 0.60 |
| Garruk, Cursed Huntsman | mythic | $2.48 | 0.09 |
| Return of the Wildspeaker | rare | $2.29 | 0.60 |
| Fabled Passage | rare | $2.18 | 0.60 |
| Garruk, Cursed Huntsman | mythic | $1.77 | 0.30 |
| Robber of the Rich | mythic | $1.73 | 0.30 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
