Zendikar Rising
Open one box and you'll get $125.28 of cards, on average. A box costs $175 right now, so that means you're $49.58 short.
Cards inside
$125.28
Everything in the box, at today's prices
Box costs now
$175
TCGplayer market · from $180
Difference
-$49.58
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.
$125.28 is what the cards are worth to a buyer. It is not what you would be paid for them.
Worth to a buyer
$125.28
Every card at market price
What you'd keep
$24.84
About 20% of it, sold card by card
Stuck as bulk
73%
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 73% 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.
-$49.58
per box, against you
You would do better buying the singles
At $175 a box you'd come up about $49.58 short on average. Buying the individual cards you want will usually cost less.
Break-even price
$125.28
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.
Common with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.48
Whole box
$53.28
$1.44 kept
Share
43%
Single-faced rare mythic with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$1.16
Whole box
$41.76
$21.60 kept
Share
33%
Single-faced uncommon with showcase
A special treatment — alternate frames and art that appear at a lower rate.
Per pack
$0.42
Whole box
$15.12
$0.36 kept
Share
12%
Basic land
The basic land. Worth essentially nothing unless it is a full-art foil.
Per pack
$0.29
Whole box
$10.44
$0.00 kept
Share
8%
Foil incl. showcase
A foil version of this slot.
Per pack
$0.14
Whole box
$5.04
$1.44 kept
Share
4%
Everything else
2 smaller slots — alternate-art pairs, bonus sheets and the like, each under 2% of the box.
Per pack
$0.00
Whole box
$0.00
$0.00 kept
Share
0%
The ten most valuable cards a Draft Booster can produce, and roughly how often one shows up.
#1 most valuable
Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
$16.46
You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes
#2 most valuable
Moraug, Fury of Akoum
$15.68
You'll open one about 1 every 11 boxes
#3 most valuable
Ancient Greenwarden
$14.32
You'll open one about 1 every 4 boxes
Scute Swarm
$11.34
Scute Swarm
$9.78
Angel of Destiny
$9.21
Lotus Cobra
$8.98
Lithoform Engine
$8.19
Forsaken Monument
$7.19
Lotus Cobra
$7.09
79 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.
| Ashaya, Soul of the Wild | mythic | $14.54 | 0.26 |
| Ancient Greenwarden | mythic | $13.25 | 0.26 |
| Scute Swarm | rare | $9.25 | 0.34 |
| Angel of Destiny | mythic | $9.21 | 0.26 |
| Scute Swarm | rare | $8.57 | 0.17 |
| Lithoform Engine | mythic | $7.32 | 0.26 |
| Moraug, Fury of Akoum | mythic | $6.84 | 0.09 |
| Maddening Cacophony | rare | $6.78 | 0.51 |
| Lotus Cobra | rare | $6.65 | 0.34 |
| Moraug, Fury of Akoum | mythic | $6.46 | 0.17 |
| Forsaken Monument | mythic | $6.40 | 0.26 |
| Lotus Cobra | rare | $6.07 | 0.17 |
| Omnath, Locus of Creation | mythic | $5.03 | 0.17 |
| Valakut Exploration | rare | $4.61 | 0.34 |
| Soul Shatter | rare | $4.04 | 0.51 |
| Omnath, Locus of Creation | mythic | $4.00 | 0.09 |
| Valakut Exploration | rare | $2.75 | 0.17 |
| Leyline Tyrant | mythic | $2.47 | 0.26 |
| Archon of Emeria | rare | $2.21 | 0.51 |
| Nissa of Shadowed Boughs | mythic | $1.79 | 0.09 |
Sets released around the same time, so you can see how this one stacks up.
