Zendikar Rising
Open one box and you'll get $217.80 of cards, on average. A box costs $477 right now, so that means you're $259.33 short.
Cards inside
$217.80
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$477
TCGplayer market · from $450
Difference
-$259.33
Against you
Packs in the box
12
Several rares, foils and alt-art cards in each
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.
$217.80 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$217.80
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$129.60
About 60% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
20%
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 20% 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.
-$259.33
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $477 a box you'd come up about $259.33 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$217.80
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.
Foil expedition
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$8.23
Whole box
$98.76
$79.68 kept
Share
45%
Foil rare mythic showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$2.20
Whole box
$26.40
$16.20 kept
Share
12%
Extended-art rare or mythic
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$2.05
Whole box
$24.60
$13.80 kept
Share
11%
Rare mythic showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.75
Whole box
$21.00
$11.16 kept
Share
10%
Foil rare or mythic
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.32
Whole box
$15.84
$8.04 kept
Share
7%
Foil commons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$1.02
Whole box
$12.24
$0.24 kept
Share
6%
Foil uncommons
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.48
Whole box
$5.76
$0.24 kept
Share
3%
Foil basic land
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.45
Whole box
$5.40
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
Common uncommon showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.37
Whole box
$4.44
$0.12 kept
Share
2%
Foil common uncommon showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$3.48
$0.00 kept
Share
2%
The ten most valuable cards a Collector Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Ancient Tomb
$176.99
You'll open one about 1 every 14 boxes
#2 most valuable
Cavern of Souls
$105.84
You'll open one about 1 every 14 boxes
#3 most valuable
Polluted Delta
$105.83
You'll open one about 1 every 14 boxes
Bloodstained Mire
$87.79
Misty Rainforest
$84.62
Flooded Strand
$82.92
Scalding Tarn
$75.41
Windswept Heath
$73.76
Verdant Catacombs
$71.49
Marsh Flats
$71.13
168 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.
| Ancient Tomb | mythic | $139.32 | 0.07 |
| Cavern of Souls | mythic | $56.02 | 0.07 |
| Misty Rainforest | mythic | $53.56 | 0.07 |
| Verdant Catacombs | mythic | $49.08 | 0.07 |
| Scalding Tarn | mythic | $48.69 | 0.07 |
| Polluted Delta | mythic | $48.58 | 0.07 |
| Marsh Flats | mythic | $46.39 | 0.07 |
| Arid Mesa | mythic | $45.32 | 0.07 |
| Prismatic Vista | mythic | $41.05 | 0.07 |
| Bloodstained Mire | mythic | $37.11 | 0.07 |
| Flooded Strand | mythic | $33.53 | 0.07 |
| Luxury Suite | mythic | $33.48 | 0.07 |
| Windswept Heath | mythic | $32.59 | 0.07 |
| Morphic Pool | mythic | $31.89 | 0.07 |
| Wasteland | mythic | $30.35 | 0.07 |
| Wooded Foothills | mythic | $29.74 | 0.07 |
| Strip Mine | mythic | $27.59 | 0.07 |
| Sea of Clouds | mythic | $26.88 | 0.07 |
| Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle | mythic | $25.61 | 0.07 |
| Ashaya, Soul of the Wild | mythic | $21.44 | 0.29 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
