Torment
Open one box and you'll get $628.20 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,037 right now, so that means you're $409.11 short.
Cards inside
$628.20
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,037
TCGplayer market · from $1,141
Difference
-$409.11
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.
$628.20 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$628.20
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$354.60
About 56% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
21%
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 21% 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.
-$409.11
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,037 a box you'd come up about $409.11 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$628.20
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.
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$6.87
Whole box
$247.32
$114.12 kept
Share
39%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$4.67
Whole box
$168.12
$95.40 kept
Share
27%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$3.07
Whole box
$110.52
$65.88 kept
Share
18%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.64
Whole box
$59.04
$45.36 kept
Share
9%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.76
Whole box
$27.36
$21.24 kept
Share
4%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.44
Whole box
$15.84
$12.96 kept
Share
3%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Cabal Ritual
$228.88
You'll open one about 7.2 per box
#2 most valuable
Grim Lavamancer
$225.00
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Cabal Coffers
$213.13
You'll open one about 2.5 per box
Insidious Dreams
$110.00
Cleansing Meditation
$99.00
Overmaster
$88.91
Chainer, Dementia Master
$80.32
Ichorid
$80.00
Arrogant Wurm
$79.99
Nantuko Shade
$69.90
44 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.
| Grim Lavamancer | rare | $20.43 | 0.82 |
| Nantuko Shade | rare | $17.19 | 0.82 |
| Insidious Dreams | rare | $14.78 | 0.82 |
| Last Laugh | rare | $12.51 | 0.82 |
| Retraced Image | rare | $8.63 | 0.82 |
| Transcendence | rare | $6.96 | 0.82 |
| Mortal Combat | rare | $6.75 | 0.82 |
| Parallel Evolution | rare | $5.11 | 0.82 |
| Radiate | rare | $4.74 | 0.82 |
| Mutilate | rare | $3.95 | 0.82 |
| Devastating Dreams | rare | $3.90 | 0.82 |
| Overmaster | rare | $3.38 | 0.82 |
| Nostalgic Dreams | rare | $2.70 | 0.82 |
| Turbulent Dreams | rare | $2.69 | 0.82 |
| Dawn of the Dead | rare | $2.20 | 0.82 |
| Insist | rare | $2.02 | 0.82 |
| Alter Reality | rare | $1.99 | 0.82 |
| Hypnox | rare | $1.98 | 0.82 |
| Ichorid | rare | $1.97 | 0.82 |
| Chainer, Dementia Master | rare | $1.58 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
