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GAOV Galactic Overlord

Released 8 May 2012 · 223 cards · 24 packs per box

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Galactic Overlord - Booster Box [1st Edition]

Is a booster box of GAOV worth opening?

Box price$290TCGplayer market price
Expected value$85.74$85.25 to $87.23 depending on the rates
If you sell the cards$37.31With a 5% fee and leaving out cards under $0.50
A typical box$32.26The median of 10,000 simulated boxes
You get your money back0.0%Almost never

On average, no: selling the cards from a GAOV box would get you $37.31, 13% of the $290 it costs. A typical box gives $32.26 and only 0.0% of boxes get your money back. If you're after a specific card, buying it as a single is usually cheaper.

How reliable the rates are: good (several sources that agree).

GAOV pull rates

How many cards of each rarity group come in a 24-pack box, how many packs it takes to pull one specific card of the group and how much the group adds to the box value.

RarityCardsPer boxOne specificAddsShare
Common 48 186 (184–192) 1 in 6 packs $46.00 54%
Secrets 8 1.0 (1.0–1.0) 1 in 185 packs $10.78 13%
Rare 20 24 (24–24) 1 in 20 packs $9.91 12%
Super Rare 14 4.8 (4.8–4.8) 1 in 70 packs $8.60 10%
Ghost 1 0.080 (0.080–0.080) 1 in 300 packs $5.88 6.9%
Ultra Rare 10 2.0 (2.0–2.0) 1 in 120 packs $4.57 5.3%

The cards that carry the box

What weighs most in the expected value: expensive cards that are hard to pull.

The most expensive GAOV cards

Their version and today's TCGplayer and Cardmarket price.

CardRarityTCGplayerCardmarket
Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon GAOV-EN0411st Edition Ghost Rare $73.50 —
Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon GAOV-EN041Unlimited Ghost Rare $28.76 —
Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon GAOV-EN0411st Edition Ultimate Rare $24.47 —
Neo Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon GAOV-EN041Unlimited Ultimate Rare $22.50 —
Queen Dragun Djinn GAOV-EN049Unlimited Super Rare $18.94 —
Number 32: Shark Drake GAOV-EN0421st Edition Ultimate Rare $16.87 —
Number 7: Lucky Straight GAOV-EN0911st Edition Secret Rare $22.05 €13.02
Number 7: Lucky Straight GAOV-EN091Unlimited Secret Rare $12.43 €13.02
Photon Strike Bounzer GAOV-EN0431st Edition Secret Rare $14.37 —
Night Beam GAOV-EN0551st Edition Ultimate Rare $13.31 —
Queen Dragun Djinn GAOV-EN0491st Edition Super Rare $12.56 —
Number 11: Big Eye GAOV-EN0901st Edition Secret Rare $12.97 €10.95

GAOV booster box price over the last year

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TCGplayer market price, in dollars.

Sealed product

Where the numbers come from

The expected value adds up, for each rarity group, the copies in a box times the average price of its cards (the English card, with its TCGplayer price or, if there isn't one, Cardmarket's converted). The simulation opens 10,000 boxes with the same rates.

2010-2015 core booster: 8 commons and 1 rare per pack, with a foil in some packs. Konami ratios: Super 1 in 5 packs, Ultra 1 in 12, Secret 1 in 23 and Ghost 1 in 288. Ultimate Rares have no published rate: they don't count.

Pull rate sources: web.archive.org (opens in a new tab) · yugipedia.com (opens in a new tab)

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