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Open one box and you'll get $597.96 of cards, on average. A box costs $1,300 right now, so that means you're $702.04 short.
Cards inside
$597.96
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$1,300
TCGplayer market · from $1,750
Difference
-$702.04
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.
$597.96 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$597.96
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$320.04
About 54% 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.
-$702.04
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $1,300 a box you'd come up about $702.04 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$597.96
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
$9.42
Whole box
$339.12
$250.56 kept
Share
57%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$3.89
Whole box
$140.04
$15.84 kept
Share
23%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$3.31
Whole box
$119.16
$53.64 kept
Share
20%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Squandered Resources
$85.74
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#2 most valuable
Vampiric Tutor
$75.32
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
#3 most valuable
Anvil of Bogardan
$47.77
You'll open one about 1 every 1 boxes
Natural Order
$40.06
Undiscovered Paradise
$36.60
Tithe
$35.97
City of Solitude
$23.83
Teferi's Puzzle Box
$19.50
Necromancy
$19.11
Breathstealer's Crypt
$11.14
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 | $85.74 | 0.72 |
| Vampiric Tutor | rare | $75.32 | 0.72 |
| Anvil of Bogardan | rare | $47.77 | 0.72 |
| Natural Order | rare | $40.06 | 0.72 |
| Undiscovered Paradise | rare | $36.60 | 0.72 |
| Tithe | rare | $35.97 | 0.72 |
| City of Solitude | rare | $23.83 | 0.72 |
| Teferi's Puzzle Box | rare | $19.50 | 0.72 |
| Breathstealer's Crypt | rare | $11.14 | 0.72 |
| Chronatog | rare | $10.18 | 0.72 |
| Femeref Enchantress | rare | $10.08 | 0.72 |
| Retribution of the Meek | rare | $8.86 | 0.72 |
| Griffin Canyon | rare | $5.18 | 0.72 |
| Equipoise | rare | $4.73 | 0.72 |
| Relentless Assault | rare | $4.57 | 0.72 |
| Three Wishes | rare | $4.05 | 0.72 |
| Sands of Time | rare | $3.92 | 0.72 |
| Phyrexian Marauder | rare | $3.45 | 0.72 |
| Kaervek's Spite | rare | $2.88 | 0.72 |
| Righteous War | rare | $2.75 | 0.72 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
