Zendikar
Open one box and you'll get $432.00 of cards, on average. A box costs $957 right now, so that means you're $524.79 short.
Cards inside
$432.00
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$957
TCGplayer market · from $2,008
Difference
-$524.79
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.
$432.00 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$432.00
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$226.44
About 52% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
28%
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 28% 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.
-$524.79
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $957 a box you'd come up about $524.79 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$432.00
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
$7.02
Whole box
$252.72
$184.32 kept
Share
59%
Commons
The bulk of the pack. Individually worth very little.
Per pack
$2.01
Whole box
$72.36
$2.16 kept
Share
17%
Foil (any rarity)
The guaranteed shiny card in every pack. Usually a common, occasionally something expensive.
Per pack
$1.34
Whole box
$48.24
$34.56 kept
Share
11%
Uncommons
Three per pack. Occasionally one is worth real money.
Per pack
$1.00
Whole box
$36.00
$5.04 kept
Share
8%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.62
Whole box
$22.32
$0.00 kept
Share
5%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Mindbreak Trap
$265.23
You'll open one about 1 every 3 boxes
#2 most valuable
Misty Rainforest
$117.71
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
#3 most valuable
Scalding Tarn
$114.52
You'll open one about 1 every 2 boxes
Iona, Shield of Emeria
$113.00
Verdant Catacombs
$74.80
Marsh Flats
$73.09
Arid Mesa
$70.76
Lotus Cobra
$63.58
Blade of the Bloodchief
$62.31
Eternity Vessel
$48.43
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 | $45.21 | 0.62 |
| Misty Rainforest | rare | $39.93 | 0.62 |
| Marsh Flats | rare | $34.76 | 0.62 |
| Arid Mesa | rare | $31.33 | 0.62 |
| Verdant Catacombs | rare | $30.56 | 0.62 |
| Bloodchief Ascension | rare | $22.90 | 0.62 |
| Sorin Markov | mythic | $22.79 | 0.31 |
| Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle | rare | $18.57 | 0.62 |
| Eternity Vessel | mythic | $15.37 | 0.31 |
| Mindbreak Trap | mythic | $15.33 | 0.31 |
| Luminarch Ascension | rare | $14.21 | 0.62 |
| Roil Elemental | rare | $13.61 | 0.62 |
| Emeria, the Sky Ruin | rare | $12.98 | 0.62 |
| Iona, Shield of Emeria | mythic | $12.79 | 0.31 |
| Warren Instigator | mythic | $12.69 | 0.31 |
| Eldrazi Monument | mythic | $11.96 | 0.31 |
| Lotus Cobra | mythic | $10.25 | 0.31 |
| Nissa Revane | mythic | $8.36 | 0.31 |
| Celestial Mantle | rare | $8.33 | 0.62 |
| Lullmage Mentor | rare | $8.13 | 0.62 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
