Unhinged
Open one box and you'll get $785.16 of cards, on average. A box costs $946 right now, so that means you're $160.93 short.
Cards inside
$785.16
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$946
TCGplayer market · from $950
Difference
-$160.93
Against you
Packs in the box
36
Each holds at least one rare or mythic
Box price from TCGplayer, checked October 12, 2026 · Card prices from Scryfall (TCGplayer market data) · last updated October 15, 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.
$785.16 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$785.16
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$468.72
About 60% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
17%
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 17% 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.
-$160.93
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $946 a box you'd come up about $160.93 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$785.16
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
$10.09
Whole box
$363.24
$264.96 kept
Share
46%
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$4.00
Whole box
$144.00
$89.64 kept
Share
18%
Unhinged foil
One of the card positions in every pack of this product.
Per pack
$3.37
Whole box
$121.32
$93.60 kept
Share
15%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$2.33
Whole box
$83.88
$19.08 kept
Share
11%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.02
Whole box
$72.72
$1.44 kept
Share
9%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Richard Garfield, Ph.D.
$340.00
You'll open one about 1 every 33 boxes
#2 most valuable
Mox Lotus
$315.00
You'll open one about 1 every 33 boxes
#3 most valuable
Form of the Squirrel
$141.00
You'll open one about 1 per box
Booster Tutor
$138.97
Island
$130.68
Gleemax
$114.07
Forest
$81.94
Assquatch
$65.00
Mother of Goons
$61.15
Necro-Impotence
$60.60
48 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.
| City of Ass | rare | $47.31 | 0.93 |
| Mox Lotus | rare | $25.63 | 0.90 |
| Uktabi Kong | rare | $16.32 | 0.93 |
| Form of the Squirrel | rare | $10.22 | 0.93 |
| Richard Garfield, Ph.D. | rare | $9.52 | 0.90 |
| Gleemax | rare | $5.85 | 0.90 |
| "Ach! Hans, Run!" | rare | $3.75 | 0.93 |
| R&D's Secret Lair | rare | $3.22 | 0.93 |
| Necro-Impotence | rare | $2.51 | 0.93 |
| Meddling Kids | rare | $2.49 | 0.93 |
| Johnny, Combo Player | rare | $2.45 | 0.93 |
| Letter Bomb | rare | $2.33 | 0.90 |
| Now I Know My ABC's | rare | $2.28 | 0.93 |
| Assquatch | rare | $2.24 | 0.93 |
| B-I-N-G-O | rare | $1.89 | 0.93 |
| Enter the Dungeon | rare | $1.83 | 0.93 |
| Avatar of Me | rare | $1.62 | 0.93 |
| Rare-B-Gone | rare | $1.52 | 0.93 |
| Greater Morphling | rare | $1.35 | 0.90 |
| Blast from the Past | rare | $1.13 | 0.90 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
