Is the Shadowmoor booster box worth it?
Cheaper to buy singles
The booster box costs €620.85 today (Cardmarket trend). 12 cards are worth €5 or more — €105.73 together, 0.17× the box price. The top five cards make up 23% 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 |  Painter's Servant 257/301 | Shadowmoor | €20.88 | -12% |
| 2 |  Greater Auramancy 7/301 | Shadowmoor | €13.90 | -20% |
| 3 |  Reflecting Pool 278/301 | Shadowmoor | €10.94 | -10% |
| 4 |  Reflecting Pool 278★ | Shadowmoor | €10.94 | -10% |
| 5 |  Plague of Vermin 73/301 | Shadowmoor | €9.74 | +1% |
| 6 |  Wooded Bastion 281/301 | Shadowmoor | €9.35 | -1% |
| 7 |  Sygg, River Cutthroat 176/301 | Shadowmoor | €7.99 | +8% |
| 8 |  Faerie Macabre 66/301 | Shadowmoor | €7.95 | +7% |
| 9 |  Cauldron of Souls 248/301 | Shadowmoor | €6.81 | +4% |
| 10 |  Savor the Moment 50/301 | Shadowmoor | €6.44 | +2% |
| 11 |  Umbral Mantle 267/301 | Shadowmoor | €6.09 | +9% |
| 12 |  Sunken Ruins 280/301 | Shadowmoor | €5.63 | -15% |
| 13 |  Fire-Lit Thicket 271/301 | Shadowmoor | €5.53 | -4% |
| 14 |  Wound Reflection 81/301 | Shadowmoor | €5.42 | -5% |
| 15 |  Helm of the Ghastlord 166/301 | Shadowmoor | €4.80 | +6% |
| 16 |  Boon Reflection 5/301 | Shadowmoor | €4.48 | -17% |
| 17 |  Polluted Bonds 74/301 | Shadowmoor | €4.29 | +14% |
| 18 |  Mystic Gate 277/301 | Shadowmoor | €4.04 | -13% |
| 19 |  Graven Cairns 272/301 | Shadowmoor | €4.02 | +1% |
| 20 |  Corrosive Mentor 61/301 | Shadowmoor | €3.84 | -5% |
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.