Is the Shadows over Innistrad booster box worth it?
Cheaper to buy singles
The booster box costs €152.39 today (Cardmarket trend). 5 cards are worth €5 or more — €39.82 together, 0.26× the box price. The top five cards make up 35% 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 |  Relentless Dead 131/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €11.18 | +6% |
| 2 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265†b | Shadows over Innistrad | €8.85 | +36% |
| 3 |  Cryptolith Rite 200/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €7.44 | +11% |
| 4 |  Eerie Interlude 16/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €6.44 | +4% |
| 5 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265†d | Shadows over Innistrad | €5.91 | +146% |
| 6 |  Diregraf Colossus 107/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €3.91 | -4% |
| 7 |  Second Harvest 227/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €2.61 | +18% |
| 8 |  Open the Armory 32/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €2.54 | +7% |
| 9 |  Anguished Unmaking 242/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €2.41 | +1% |
| 10 |  Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier 5/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €2.02 | +17% |
| 11 |  Jace, Unraveler of Secrets 69/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.83 | +15% |
| 12 |  Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince 281/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.78 | -2% |
| 13 |  Sorin, Grim Nemesis 251/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.76 | +7% |
| 14 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265†a | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.66 | +11% |
| 15 |  The Gitrog Monster 245/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.54 | +5% |
| 16 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265†c | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.44 | +19% |
| 17 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265†e | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.41 | +6% |
| 18 |  Seasons Past 226/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.17 | -4% |
| 19 |  Essence Flux 61/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.14 | +14% |
| 20 |  Tamiyo's Journal 265/297 | Shadows over Innistrad | €1.14 | +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.