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LDS1 Legendary Duelists: Season 1

Released 3 July 2020 · 163 cards · 2 packs per box

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Legendary Duelists: Season 1 Box [1st Edition]

Is a booster box of LDS1 worth opening?

Box price$39.41TCGplayer market price
Expected value$36.61
If you sell the cards$29.44With a 5% fee and leaving out cards under $0.50
A typical box$28.79The median of 10,000 simulated boxes
You get your money back12%In 1 out of 8 boxes

On average, no: selling the cards from a LDS1 box would get you $29.44, 75% of the $39.41 it costs. A typical box gives $28.79 and only 12% 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).

LDS1 pull rates

How many cards of each rarity group come in a 2-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 94 30 (30–30) 1 in 6 packs $23.31 64%
Box Secret Rare 7 1.0 (1.0–1.0) 1 in 14 packs $7.16 20%
Ultra Rare 52 6.0 (6.0–6.0) 1 in 17 packs $6.15 17%

The cards that carry the box

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

The most expensive LDS1 cards

Their version and today's TCGplayer and Cardmarket price.

CardRarityTCGplayerCardmarket
Red-Eyes Fang with Chain LDS1-EN021Limited Edition Secret Rare $11.30 €8.98
Red-Eyes Baby Dragon LDS1-EN010Limited Edition Secret Rare $16.36 €7.53
Ancient Gear Wyvern LDS1-EN0841st Edition Common $3.90 €7.13
Gearfried the Red-Eyes Iron Knight LDS1-EN011Limited Edition Secret Rare $6.77 —
Millennium-Eyes Restrict LDS1-EN051Limited Edition Secret Rare $5.13 €5.80
Ancient Gear Catapult LDS1-EN0891st Edition Common $2.47 €5.73
Art Token: Zane Truesdale N/AUnlimited Promo $5.92 —
Art Token: Mai Valentine N/AUnlimited Promo $5.07 —
Toon Table of Contents LDS1-EN069Purple · 1st Edition Ultra Rare $5.03 —
Toon Table of Contents LDS1-EN069Blue · 1st Edition Ultra Rare $5.02 —
Toon Dark Magician LDS1-EN0671st Edition Common $5.49 €4.21
Toon Table of Contents LDS1-EN069Green · 1st Edition Ultra Rare $4.68 —

LDS1 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.

Collector box with fixed contents: 1 Secret Rare and 2 packs of 18 cards (1 regular Ultra, 2 colored Ultras and 15 commons each). Here the box is those 2 packs.

Pull rate sources: yugioh-card.com (opens in a new tab) · yugipedia.com (opens in a new tab)

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