Unglued
Open one box and you'll get $661.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,200 right now, so that means you're $538.31 short.
Cards inside
$661.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,200
TCGplayer market · from $1,816
Difference
-$538.31
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 December 8, 2025
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.
$661.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$661.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$379.80
About 57% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
20%
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 20% 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.
-$538.31
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,200 a box you'd come up about $538.31 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$661.68
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.
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$8.57
Whole box
$308.52
$217.08 kept
Share
47%
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$4.63
Whole box
$166.68
$108.00 kept
Share
25%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.99
Whole box
$143.64
$49.32 kept
Share
22%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.18
Whole box
$42.48
$5.40 kept
Share
6%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Blacker Lotus
$37.01
You'll open one about 1 per box
#2 most valuable
B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)
$18.37
You'll open one about 1 per box
#3 most valuable
B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster)
$13.85
You'll open one about 1 per box
The Cheese Stands Alone
$12.59
Ashnod's Coupon
$12.21
Forest
$10.20
Ghazbán Ogress
$10.18
Island
$10.04
Jack-in-the-Mox
$9.76
Swamp
$8.49
28 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.
| Blacker Lotus | rare | $37.01 | 1.29 |
| B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) | rare | $18.37 | 1.29 |
| B.F.M. (Big Furry Monster) | rare | $13.85 | 1.29 |
| The Cheese Stands Alone | rare | $12.59 | 1.29 |
| Ashnod's Coupon | rare | $12.21 | 1.29 |
| Jack-in-the-Mox | rare | $9.76 | 1.29 |
| Free-for-All | rare | $2.26 | 1.29 |
| Strategy, Schmategy | rare | $2.18 | 1.29 |
| Infernal Spawn of Evil | rare | $1.97 | 1.29 |
| Cardboard Carapace | rare | $1.84 | 1.29 |
| Once More with Feeling | rare | $1.52 | 1.29 |
| Timmy, Power Gamer | rare | $1.33 | 1.29 |
| Mirror Mirror | rare | $1.18 | 1.29 |
| Incoming! | rare | $1.16 | 1.29 |
| Squirrel Farm | rare | $1.15 | 1.29 |
| Psychic Network | rare | $1.14 | 1.29 |
| Burning Cinder Fury of Crimson Chaos Fire | rare | $1.12 | 1.29 |
| Mine, Mine, Mine! | rare | $1.12 | 1.29 |
| Jester's Sombrero | rare | $1.09 | 1.29 |
| I'm Rubber, You're Glue | rare | $1.04 | 1.29 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
