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Open one box and you'll get $591.48 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,550 right now, so that means you're $958.52 short.
Cards inside
$591.48
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,550
TCGplayer market · from $1,969
Difference
-$958.52
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 17, 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.
$591.48 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$591.48
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$319.32
About 54% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
23%
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 23% 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.
-$958.52
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,550 a box you'd come up about $958.52 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$591.48
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
$9.33
Whole box
$335.88
$248.04 kept
Share
57%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.82
Whole box
$137.52
$19.08 kept
Share
23%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.28
Whole box
$118.08
$52.20 kept
Share
20%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Squandered Resources
$84.28
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$74.76
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Anvil of Bogardan
$47.42
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Natural Order
$39.31
Tithe
$37.57
Undiscovered Paradise
$36.03
City of Solitude
$23.45
Necromancy
$19.51
Teferi's Puzzle Box
$18.91
Breathstealer's Crypt
$11.00
50 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.
| Squandered Resources | rare | $84.28 | 0.72 |
| Vampiric Tutor | rare | $74.76 | 0.72 |
| Anvil of Bogardan | rare | $47.42 | 0.72 |
| Natural Order | rare | $39.31 | 0.72 |
| Tithe | rare | $37.57 | 0.72 |
| Undiscovered Paradise | rare | $36.03 | 0.72 |
| City of Solitude | rare | $23.45 | 0.72 |
| Teferi's Puzzle Box | rare | $18.91 | 0.72 |
| Breathstealer's Crypt | rare | $11.00 | 0.72 |
| Femeref Enchantress | rare | $10.08 | 0.72 |
| Retribution of the Meek | rare | $8.58 | 0.72 |
| Chronatog | rare | $7.83 | 0.72 |
| Griffin Canyon | rare | $5.09 | 0.72 |
| Equipoise | rare | $5.08 | 0.72 |
| Relentless Assault | rare | $4.76 | 0.72 |
| Sands of Time | rare | $4.05 | 0.72 |
| Phyrexian Marauder | rare | $3.97 | 0.72 |
| Three Wishes | rare | $3.79 | 0.72 |
| Righteous War | rare | $3.02 | 0.72 |
| Flooded Shoreline | rare | $2.76 | 0.72 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
