A booster pack is the smallest sealed unit in Magic: one foil wrapper, a fixed number of cards, and no way to know what is inside until it is opened. We stock 19 sealed listings here, from single MTG booster packs at $4.99 to 30-pack displays at $159.99, and every one is factory sealed, photographed as it arrives and shipped from our own stock.

This page covers what is actually inside each pack type, how the per-pack maths works out, and which sets are worth opening rather than keeping sealed. The short version: a play booster holds 14 cards plus an art card, a draft booster holds 15 cards, and a collector booster holds 15 cards that are foil or specially treated.

Booster packs at a glance

Sealed listings	19
Cheapest single pack	$4.99 (TMNT Play Booster Pack)
Most expensive listing	$159.99 (30-pack play booster display)
Pack types stocked	Play, draft, Jumpstart
Cards per play booster	14 cards plus an art card
Cards per draft booster	15 cards
Dispatch cut-off	5pm, same working day
Free delivery	Orders over $1,000
Carriers	FedEx, DHL, USPS and local couriers
Returns window	48 hours from purchase, sealed only

What is inside an MTG booster pack

A play booster is the current standard pack for most sets. It contains 14 cards: six commons, three uncommons, one rare or mythic rare, one wildcard slot that can be any rarity, one traditional foil and one basic land, plus an art card. The wildcard is the slot that makes a single pack worth opening, because it can upgrade into a second rare.

A draft booster is the older 15-card format still used by sets printed before 2024, such as The Lord of the Rings and Dominaria Remastered. It runs ten commons, three uncommons, one rare or mythic and one basic land, and it is built for drafting: three packs per player, passed around a table.

A collector booster is the premium pack. It holds 15 cards, every one foil or given a special treatment such as extended art or a borderless frame, with several rare slots and a guaranteed foil rare or mythic. A Jumpstart booster is different again: 20 cards built around one theme, designed to be shuffled with a second pack and played immediately.

Play, draft and collector booster packs compared

The three pack types are not interchangeable, and the price gap between them is real rather than cosmetic. The table below compares what you actually get, which matters more than the pack count on the front of the wrapper.

Pack types side by side

Pack type	Cards	Built for	Price here
Play booster	14 + art card	Opening, limited play, collecting	$4.99 – $6.99
Draft booster	15	Drafting with 6-8 players	$7.49
Collector booster	15, all foil or treated	Chasing treatments and foils	$18.49 – $42.99
Jumpstart booster	20, themed	Instant two-pack games	$5.49

If you are buying to open with friends, play boosters are the sensible default: the same set, the same cards, a lower price per pack. If you are buying for the foil and borderless market, collector boosters cost three to eight times as much but carry the only versions of some cards that collectors count.

Are sealed booster packs worth buying? The per-pack maths

Single packs almost always cost more per pack than a sealed display. A 30-pack play booster display at $122.99 works out at $4.10 a pack, while the same set sold as individual packs sits at $4.99 to $5.99. The Star Trek display at $159.99 is $5.33 a pack against $5.49 for a single, so the saving narrows to cents on a set that is still on pre-order.

Cost per pack, measured against our own listings

Purchase	Price	Packs	Cost per pack
TMNT Play Booster display	$122.99	30	$4.10
Aetherdrift Play Booster display	$147.99	30	$4.93
Star Trek Play Booster display	$159.99	30	$5.33
Star Trek Play Booster Pack	$5.49	1	$5.49
LOTR Draft Booster Pack	$7.49	1	$7.49
Modern Horizons 3 Play Booster	$10.99	1	$10.99

Sealed packs are worth buying as packs when you want a small, fixed spend, a gift, or a draft pod that needs a few extra packs. They are worth buying as a display when the cost per pack drops and you were going to open that many anyway. What a sealed pack is not is a guaranteed return: the expected value of an opened pack is usually below its price, which is why the secondary market for singles exists.

Magic booster packs by set: where to start

Which set you buy matters more than which shop you buy it from. Modern Horizons 3 packs are the most expensive single packs we list at $10.99 because the set is printed straight into Modern and skips Standard power levels. For most players that price is justified only if they play Modern or Commander and want the cards for a deck.

The Lord of the Rings draft boosters at $7.49 are the pick for a themed draft night: the set was designed around drafting and the film licence gives it appeal beyond regular players. Standard-legal sets such as Aetherdrift, Lorwyn Eclipsed and Secrets of Strixhaven sit at $5.49 to $5.99 a pack, which is the normal band for a current set.

Two listings are on pre-order rather than in stock: Reality Fracture releases on 2 October 2026 and Star Trek on 13 November 2026. Pre-orders are charged at the price shown and dispatch on release day, which is covered in more detail on our MTG pre-orders page. Card text and set lists for every set are published on Magic.Wizards.com and searchable on Scryfall.

How we store and ship MTG booster packs

Packs are stored flat, away from heat and direct light, in the same cartons they arrive in. We do not open displays to sell singles, we do not weigh packs, and we do not reseal anything: the wrapper you receive is the wrapper the printer applied. If a pack arrives with a lifted seal or a nick in the foil, photograph it and contact us within 48 hours of delivery.

Orders placed before 5pm leave the same working day with FedEx, DHL, USPS or a local courier, depending on the service you choose at checkout. Delivery is free on orders over $1,000. Packs travel in a rigid mailer or a padded box with the packs flat, so the corners do not fold in transit.

How many booster packs you need for a draft or a sealed deck

The pack count is the part people get wrong, and it is the difference between a draft that fires and a table that sits waiting. A booster draft needs three packs per player, so an eight-player pod needs 24 packs and a four-player table needs 12. A sealed deck event uses six packs per player and no passing: everyone opens their own six packs, builds a forty-card deck from what they opened, and plays. For a Commander draft, three twenty-card draft boosters per player is the format Wizards publishes.

Packs needed by event size

Event	Packs per player	Four players	Eight players
Booster draft	3	12	24
Sealed deck	6	24	48
Two-headed giant draft	3 per player (6 per team)	24	24
Jumpstart	2	8	16

Buying booster packs in the right multiple is cheaper than buying them one at a time because the pack price does not move but the shipping does: 24 single packs is a parcel, and a 30-pack display usually costs less than 24 singles from the same set. If you are organising the night, order the display and keep the spare six packs for prizes or for the next table.

One practical note on sealed booster packs for drafting: all packs on the table should come from the same set. Mixing sets inside one draft is possible but the archetypes stop lining up, and players who opened the weaker set will notice. If you want a mixed night, draft each set as its own pod rather than pooling them.

Sealed booster packs versus loose singles, and what we will not sell

A sealed booster pack and a loose single card are different products with different risks. A single card is a known quantity: you can see the condition, the set symbol and the price, and the only question is whether the seller is accurate about the grade. A pack is the opposite: the contents are fixed by the printer but unknown to you, and the value of what is inside is decided by the market after you open it.

That asymmetry is why we do not sell searched or weighed booster packs. Weighing works because foil cards and some treatments add weight, and a weighed pack is a pack with the best card already removed. Every pack we list is factory sealed, taken from a sealed display, and photographed before it goes into stock. If you ever receive a pack with a lifted seal, a re-glued flap or a wrapper that does not match the set, contact us within 48 hours of delivery and we will replace it.

The same rule applies to displays. We do not open a booster box to sell the packs individually and then sell the rest of the box as sealed, because that is how mapped boxes reach the market. A box we list as sealed is a box that arrived sealed and has stayed sealed.

For buyers who want a specific card rather than a chance at one, singles are the rational purchase. For buyers who want the opening, the trade and the draft, booster packs are the only product that does the job.

Buying MTG booster packs as a gift

Booster packs are the easiest Magic product to give, because the recipient does not need a deck, a format or a playgroup to use them. Three packs is a reasonable gift for a child who already plays; a thirty-pack display is a gift for someone who runs game nights. The one thing worth checking before you buy is the age guidance printed on the box, which is 13+ on current Magic product.

If you do not know which set the person plays, a current Standard-legal set is the safest choice: the cards are legal in the formats most players use and the set is easy to trade. A premium set such as Modern Horizons 3 costs more per pack and pays off only for players who already play Modern or Commander, so it makes a better gift for an experienced player than for a new one.

Gift orders can be shipped to a different address from the billing address at checkout, and we do not include a price on the packing slip. If you need the parcel to arrive by a specific date, order before the 5pm cut-off and choose a tracked service; the delivery page sets out what each carrier realistically does.

Pack condition, storage and what arrives in the post

Every MTG booster pack we list is stored flat, in a closed box, away from a window. Foil wrappers crease if packs are stacked loosely, and a creased wrapper is the first thing a buyer notices, so packs travel in a padded mailer or a small box with card between them. We do not bend packs to fit an envelope.

Orders placed before 5pm ship the same working day. Delivery is free over $1,000, and single packs are sent with tracking rather than as letter post, because a lost pack with no tracking number is not something we can fix for you afterwards.

Why older booster packs cost more than new ones

Magic sets are printed in a print run, not forever. Once a set leaves print, the only packs that exist are the ones already in the supply chain, and the price stops being decided by the printer and starts being decided by how many people still want to open that set. That is why a draft booster from The Lord of the Rings at $7.49 can cost more than a play booster from a set released this year, even though it holds one more card.

Three things push an out-of-print pack up. The first is scarcity: fewer sealed packs means fewer chances at the cards people still want. The second is draft demand, because a set that was good to draft stays in demand with playgroups long after it leaves Standard. The third is nostalgia for a licence or a plane that Wizards is unlikely to reprint, which is the same reason sealed product from older licensed sets is expensive everywhere rather than just here.

The practical consequence for a buyer is that new packs are for opening and old packs are for a purpose: a themed draft, a specific card, or a sealed collection. Paying a premium for an old pack and then opening it for value rarely works out, because the market has already priced the cards inside it.

Frequently asked questions

How many cards are in an MTG booster pack?

A play booster contains 14 cards plus an art card, a draft booster contains 15 cards, and a collector booster contains 15 cards that are all foil or specially treated. Jumpstart boosters contain 20 themed cards including lands.

Can I buy a single booster pack rather than a box?

Yes. Single packs start at $4.99 and every pack type we stock is available as an individual unit, alongside 30-pack displays for the sets where we hold them.

Is it cheaper to buy booster packs or a whole booster box?

A box is cheaper per pack. Our TMNT display works out at $4.10 a pack against $4.99 for a single, and the saving grows on older sets. If you only want five packs, buying five is cheaper than buying thirty.

Are your booster packs factory sealed?

Every pack is factory sealed and has never been opened, weighed or searched. We buy from distributors and authorized suppliers, and packs are photographed as they arrive.

Do booster packs ship tracked?

Tracked services are available at checkout on every order, and orders over $1,000 ship free. The tracking number is emailed when the parcel leaves us.

What is the difference between a play booster and a draft booster?

A play booster is the current 14-card pack used by sets from 2024 onwards, with a wildcard slot. A draft booster is the older 15-card pack, still used by sets printed before the change, and it is the pack most draft pods prefer.

Where to go next

Packs are the entry point; the pages below cover the rest of the sealed range.

• MTG booster boxes – thirty-pack displays where the cost per pack drops furthest.
• Collector boosters – the foil and borderless versions, priced per pack and per box.
• Draft night boxes – product built for eight players around one table.
• MTG delivery information – cut-off times, carriers and the $1,000 free delivery threshold.
• How to spot fake MTG cards – eight checks for a sealed pack or box before you open it.