What is the expected value of a Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box?

Opening a Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box gets you about $358.20 of cards at market price, against a market price of $321.52 for the box — a ratio of 1.11x. Selling those cards would return about $176.04 after fees, because 34% of that value sits in cards worth more as bulk than as a listing.

Is the Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box worth opening?

Measured against buying the singles, yes: at $321.52 a box the cards inside are worth about $36.68 more than the box costs. Measured as an investment, no — reselling them would return about $176.04 after fees and postage, which is less than the box costs. Check the price you would actually pay.

How much would you get back selling a Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box?

About $176.04, against $358.20 of cards at market price. Market price is what a buyer pays, not what a seller receives: TCGplayer takes 10.75% commission plus a 2.5% and $0.30 transaction fee, and posting a single card costs around $1.10. Below roughly $1.66 a card is worth more in a bulk lot, at about $0.04 a rare, than listed and posted — and 34% of this box's value sits under that line.

Wilds of Eldraine

Cards inside $358.20+$37 ahead

Wilds of Eldraine

Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box

Open one box and you'll get $358.20 of cards, on average. A box costs $322 right now, so that means you're +$36.68 ahead.

Cards inside

$358.20

Everything in the box, at today's prices

Box costs now

$322

TCGplayer market · from $318

Difference

+$36.68

In your favour

Packs in the box

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 16, 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.

And if you sold the cards?

$358.20 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.

Worth to a buyer

$358.20

Every card at market price

What you'd keep

$176.04

About 49% of it, sold card by card

Stuck as bulk

34%

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 34% 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.

What does a box cost you?

We start from what a box costs right now. Put in the price you're actually being asked to pay and the answer updates.

Box price

$20$825

I'd be selling the cards. Values every card at what you'd be paid for it rather than what it sells for — fees and postage on the ones worth listing, bulk rates on the ones that aren't. Comes to about 49% of $358.

+$36.68

per box, in your favour

The cards are worth more than the box

At $322 a box you'd come out about $36.68 ahead on average. Over many boxes that edge is real — but any single box can still be a dud.

Break-even price

$358.20

Pay less than this and you're ahead on average.

Where the value comes from

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.

Enchanting tales

One of the card positions in every pack of this product.

Per pack

$5.51

Whole box

$198.36

$140.04 kept

55%

Commons

The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.

Per pack

$1.78

Whole box

$64.08

$1.08 kept

18%

Rare mythic with showcase

A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.

Per pack

$1.22

Whole box

$43.92

$24.12 kept

12%

Uncommons

Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.

Per pack

$0.66

Whole box

$23.76

$0.72 kept

Foil incl. showcase

A foil version of this slot.

Per pack

$0.44

Whole box

$15.84

$9.72 kept

Basic land

The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.

Per pack

$0.33

Whole box

$11.88

$0.00 kept

The cards you're hoping to hit

The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.

#1 most valuable

Smothering Tithe

$422.53

You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes

#2 most valuable

Rhystic Study

$421.33

You'll open one about 1 every 17 boxes

#3 most valuable

Rhystic Study

$151.67

You'll open one about 1 every 5 boxes

Necropotence

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$126.94

Omniscience

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$82.96

Parallel Lives

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$77.90

Greater Auramancy

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$77.43

Smothering Tithe

mythicabout 1 every 5 boxes

$75.71

Defense of the Heart

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$74.76

Doubling Season

mythicabout 1 every 17 boxes

$65.47

Every rare and mythic in the set

135 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.

			Foil price
Smothering Tithe	mythic	$204.34	$422.53	0.06
Rhystic Study	mythic	$160.80	$421.33	0.06
Rhystic Study	mythic	$77.81	$151.67	0.19
Smothering Tithe	mythic	$63.35	$75.71	0.19
Parallel Lives	mythic	$47.09	$77.90	0.06
Doubling Season	mythic	$43.10	$65.47	0.06
Agatha's Soul Cauldron	mythic	$42.77	$44.22	0.27
Necropotence	mythic	$39.86	$126.94	0.06
Parallel Lives	mythic	$39.46	$47.37	0.19
Doubling Season	mythic	$39.42	$47.23	0.19
Necropotence	mythic	$35.11	$64.23	0.19
Omniscience	mythic	$33.32	$82.96	0.06
Grave Pact	mythic	$33.22	$40.52	0.19
Grave Pact	mythic	$32.48	$54.77	0.06
Bitterblossom	mythic	$31.61	$34.70	0.19
Bitterblossom	mythic	$29.05	$38.78	0.06
Greater Auramancy	mythic	$28.80	$77.43	0.06
Defense of the Heart	mythic	$28.75	$74.76	0.06
Aggravated Assault	rare	$25.19	$29.30	0.38
Aggravated Assault	rare	$25.03	$45.34	0.13

Compare with other boxes

Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.

Wilds of Eldraine

$443 of cards

$423 short of the box price

Wilds of Eldraine

$357 of cards

$4 short of the box price

Doctor Who

$569 of cards

$141 short of the box price

Questions people ask

It's the average value of the cards in a box. Imagine opening a thousand boxes of this set and adding up every card at its market price — divide by a thousand and you get $358.20. It is not what your box will be worth. Most boxes come in lower, because a small number of very expensive cards drag the average up.

Wilds of Eldraine

Wilds of Eldraine Draft Booster Box

And if you sold the cards?

What does a box cost you?

Where the value comes from

The cards you're hoping to hit

Every rare and mythic in the set

Compare with other boxes

Questions people ask

What does “expected value” actually mean?

So should I open a box or buy singles?

Could I really get $358.20 back by selling the cards?

Where do the prices come from?

What counts towards the total?

How accurate is this?