Urza's Legacy
Open one box and you'll get $1156.68 of cards, on average. A box costs $3,788 right now, so that means you're $2630.82 short.
Cards inside
$1156.68
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$3,788
TCGplayer market · from $6,000
Difference
-$2630.82
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.
$1156.68 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$1156.68
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$801.36
About 69% 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.
-$2630.82
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $3,788 a box you'd come up about $2630.82 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$1156.68
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.
Rares
The guaranteed rare in every pack.
Per pack
$19.27
Whole box
$693.72
$563.40 kept
Share
60%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$4.71
Whole box
$169.56
$43.20 kept
Share
15%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.34
Whole box
$120.24
$54.72 kept
Share
10%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.53
Whole box
$91.08
$72.00 kept
Share
8%
Foil rares
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.68
Whole box
$60.48
$51.48 kept
Share
5%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.60
Whole box
$21.60
$16.92 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Grim Monolith
$3498.00
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Goblin Welder
$486.66
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Deranged Hermit
$475.00
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Palinchron
$418.73
Memory Jar
$418.12
Crop Rotation
$360.00
Radiant, Archangel
$233.99
Karmic Guide
$227.18
Defense of the Heart
$198.00
Multani, Maro-Sorcerer
$188.47
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 Monolith | rare | $479.74 | 0.82 |
| Deranged Hermit | rare | $87.94 | 0.82 |
| Palinchron | rare | $42.74 | 0.82 |
| Goblin Welder | rare | $39.60 | 0.82 |
| Memory Jar | rare | $36.70 | 0.82 |
| No Mercy | rare | $27.67 | 0.82 |
| Defense of the Heart | rare | $23.76 | 0.82 |
| Defense Grid | rare | $16.00 | 0.82 |
| Multani, Maro-Sorcerer | rare | $15.90 | 0.82 |
| Iron Maiden | rare | $12.34 | 0.82 |
| Hidden Gibbons | rare | $11.67 | 0.82 |
| Crawlspace | rare | $10.62 | 0.82 |
| Radiant, Archangel | rare | $7.15 | 0.82 |
| Second Chance | rare | $6.05 | 0.82 |
| Karmic Guide | rare | $5.77 | 0.82 |
| Scrapheap | rare | $5.65 | 0.82 |
| Quicksilver Amulet | rare | $3.99 | 0.82 |
| Might of Oaks | rare | $2.76 | 0.82 |
| Delusions of Mediocrity | rare | $2.39 | 0.82 |
| Subversion | rare | $2.27 | 0.82 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
