Zendikar
Open one box and you'll get $415.80 of cards, on average. A box costs $957 right now, so that means you're $540.99 short.
Cards inside
$415.80
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$957
TCGplayer market · from $1,785
Difference
-$540.99
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.
$415.80 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$415.80
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$223.56
About 54% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
25%
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 25% 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.
-$540.99
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $957 a box you'd come up about $540.99 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$415.80
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.
Rare or mythic
The one guaranteed rare or mythic in every pack. This is where most of a box’s value sits.
Per pack
$6.99
Whole box
$251.64
$184.32 kept
Share
61%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$1.73
Whole box
$62.28
$2.52 kept
Share
15%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.28
Whole box
$46.08
$32.76 kept
Share
11%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$0.91
Whole box
$32.76
$3.60 kept
Share
8%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.65
Whole box
$23.40
$0.72 kept
Share
6%
The ten most valuable cards a Play Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mindbreak Trap
$233.47
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Scalding Tarn
$109.39
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Iona, Shield of Emeria
$103.90
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
Misty Rainforest
$96.33
Verdant Catacombs
$66.01
Marsh Flats
$65.25
Arid Mesa
$61.06
Lotus Cobra
$55.19
Blade of the Bloodchief
$54.91
Eternity Vessel
$49.21
68 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.
| Scalding Tarn | rare | $40.36 | 0.62 |
| Arid Mesa | rare | $37.82 | 0.62 |
| Misty Rainforest | rare | $35.49 | 0.62 |
| Marsh Flats | rare | $33.76 | 0.62 |
| Verdant Catacombs | rare | $30.08 | 0.62 |
| Sorin Markov | mythic | $25.70 | 0.31 |
| Bloodchief Ascension | rare | $21.24 | 0.62 |
| Emeria, the Sky Ruin | rare | $18.55 | 0.62 |
| Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle | rare | $17.69 | 0.62 |
| Iona, Shield of Emeria | mythic | $17.16 | 0.31 |
| Eternity Vessel | mythic | $16.70 | 0.31 |
| Mindbreak Trap | mythic | $15.04 | 0.31 |
| Roil Elemental | rare | $12.76 | 0.62 |
| Warren Instigator | mythic | $12.72 | 0.31 |
| Luminarch Ascension | rare | $11.49 | 0.62 |
| Eldrazi Monument | mythic | $11.08 | 0.31 |
| Lotus Cobra | mythic | $10.30 | 0.31 |
| Lullmage Mentor | rare | $9.91 | 0.62 |
| Nissa Revane | mythic | $8.73 | 0.31 |
| Celestial Mantle | rare | $8.68 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
