Is the Darksteel booster box worth it?
Cheaper to buy singles
The booster box costs €966.18 today (Cardmarket trend). 7 cards are worth €5 or more — €91.13 together, 0.09× the box price. The top five cards make up 49% of the whole set’s value.
How cards are priced
Most cards in any set are commons worth cents. Whether a box pays off depends on hitting one of the few top cards.
Most valuable cards in the set
Full set →| # | Card | Set | Price today | 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Trinisphere 154/165 | Darksteel | €21.20 | +3% |
| 2 |  Darksteel Forge 110/165 | Darksteel | €19.00 | -4% |
| 3 |  Sword of Fire and Ice 148/165 | Darksteel | €16.00 | -9% |
| 4 |  Mycosynth Lattice 130/165 | Darksteel | €15.06 | -7% |
| 5 |  Arcbound Ravager 100/165 | Darksteel | €7.48 | -4% |
| 6 |  Panoptic Mirror 136/165 | Darksteel | €6.44 | -7% |
| 7 |  Sword of Light and Shadow 149/165 | Darksteel | €5.95 | +3% |
| 8 |  Skullclamp 140/165 | Darksteel | €4.57 | +3% |
| 9 |  Savage Beating 67/165 | Darksteel | €4.47 | -4% |
| 10 |  Aether Vial 91/165 | Darksteel | €3.06 | -12% |
| 11 |  Memnarch 129/165 | Darksteel | €2.98 | -1% |
| 12 |  Geth's Grimoire 123/165 | Darksteel | €2.89 | +18% |
| 13 |  Myr Matrix 132/165 | Darksteel | €2.50 | +20% |
| 14 |  Darksteel Colossus 109/165 | Darksteel | €2.47 | -10% |
| 15 |  Nemesis Mask 134/165 | Darksteel | €2.45 | +11% |
| 16 |  Shield of Kaldra 139/165 | Darksteel | €2.41 | -13% |
| 17 |  Blinkmoth Nexus 163/165 | Darksteel | €1.93 | +4% |
| 18 |  Arcbound Reclaimer 101/165 | Darksteel | €1.53 | +13% |
| 19 |  Genesis Chamber 122/165 | Darksteel | €1.48 | +13% |
| 20 |  Leonin Shikari 6/165 | Darksteel | €1.43 | -17% |
Prices: Cardmarket trend, updated daily — as of Oct 29, 2026.
How to read these numbers
The full-set value is what all cards would cost as singles. One box won’t complete the set and the rarest cards are rare, so we focus on cards from €5. If they are worth many times the box price, the set is rich in valuable cards; if value is concentrated in a few cards (high top-5 share), opening is a lottery.
If you want a specific card, buying it as a single is almost always cheaper. A box makes sense if you enjoy opening, play limited/draft or collect sealed product.