The Brothers' War: Booster Box Prices & Sealed Products

Quick facts

Sealed products for The Brothers' War

Draft Booster Box

Thirty-six packs of fifteen cards, each containing one Retro Artifact in the dedicated slot. About one in six of those Retro Artifacts comes in the schematic frame rather than the plain retro frame, though the serialized versions do not appear in Draft Boosters. Boxes run $225-$280.

Set Booster Box

Thirty packs of twelve cards with an art card, a guaranteed foil, a shot at The List and a Retro Artifact slot. Set boxes sit at $320-$400, a wide spread because Card Kingdom and TCGplayer both price near $400 while completed eBay sales cluster lower.

Collector Booster Box

Twelve Collector Boosters, and the only sealed product in the game at the time that could yield a serialized card. Alongside the serialized slot, Collector Boosters carried extended art, retro frames, schematic Retro Artifacts and the Transformers Shattered Glass cards, which appeared in roughly twelve percent of packs. Boxes trade in a broad $600-$950 band: completed sales cluster near $620-$750 while retail and TCGplayer mid sit at $925-$950.

Jumpstart Booster Box

Twenty packs of twenty cards across the set's Jumpstart themes. Boxes run about $110-$125 and contain no serialized or Booster Fun cards. This is the casual-play purchase.

Bundle and Gift Bundle

The standard Bundle holds eight Set Boosters, a foil promo, forty basic lands, a spindown and a storage box at roughly $95-$110. The Gift Edition adds a Collector Booster and better packaging and runs $180-$225, which makes it a reasonable way to buy a single Collector Booster from a factory-sealed source.

Commander Decks and Prerelease

Two Commander decks shipped: Urza's Iron Alliance in white-blue-black and Mishra's Burnished Banner in blue-black-red. Each includes new cards, a foil-etched display commander and a Collector Booster Sample Pack, and they sell for $45-$85. Prerelease Kits with six Draft Boosters and a foil year-stamped rare run $50-$70. The set also had a Land Station, a bulk basic-land product aimed at stores.

Chase cards and Booster Fun treatments

The serialized Retro Artifact Schematics are the story. All 63 cards in the Retro Artifacts subset received a double rainbow foil schematic version stamped with a serial number from 1/500 to 500/500, for 31,500 serialized cards distributed worldwide. They appear only in Collector Boosters and at a rate under one percent of packs, which is why so few have been opened relative to the nominal print run.

Values vary enormously by card. Serialized Mox Amber has sold in the $1,000-$2,500 range, serialized Wurmcoil Engine has cleared $900 and gone far higher on standout copies, and serialized Ramos, Dragon Engine sits near $800-$1,000. Low serial numbers, 500/500 and joke numbers carry their own premium. Most of the 63 are far cheaper, and a serialized bulk artifact is worth a small fraction of those headline sales. Anyone quoting you an average serialized value is not being straight with you.

Outside the serialized run, the top singles are modest. Extended-art foil Portal to Phyrexia is the best at roughly $115, with the non-foil extended art and regular foil in the $45-$50 range. Prerelease-stamped Urza, Lord Protector sits near $35. The Transformers cards, a Universes Beyond crossover printed with Shattered Glass variants in Collector Boosters, are collected separately and priced on their own market.

Is The Brothers' War worth buying sealed?

This is the most defensible sealed buy of the 2022-2023 in-universe run, and it is still not a good investment. The serialized slot gives the Collector box a genuine lottery ceiling, and that is why Collector boxes went from roughly $230 at release to $600-$950 now. But the expected value of a Collector box remains well under its price: the base case is a box of $2 rares, a couple of $20 extended arts and no serialized card at all.

The main set is thin. Portal to Phyrexia at $115 in its best version is a weak ceiling for a set whose Collector box costs $800. If you want to open serialized cards, understand that you are paying a large premium for a sub-one-percent shot. If you want to draft, the Draft box is fine and the format was well liked. If you want a hold, the reprint risk on the main set is low simply because most of it is not worth reprinting, but that is not a bullish argument. Buy the box you actually want to open.

How to spot fakes, resealed and mapped boxes

The Brothers' War is the highest mapping risk in this era of Magic. A serialized card is a physically distinct insert, and resellers have tried to identify heavy or thick Collector Boosters for years. Do not buy loose BRO Collector Boosters from unfamiliar sellers at any price, and be especially wary of listings for single packs described as untouched, heavy or hand-selected.

On sealed boxes, check for factory-tight shrink with no seam overlap, no adhesive haze at the flaps and no loose movement inside. A resealed Collector box is the most profitable fake in the set, so a box from a seller who cannot show the case it came from deserves a pass. Counterfeit outer boxes exist; compare the box art sharpness, the BRO set symbol and the collector text block against a verified image.

Where to buy The Brothers' War sealed

Local stores still turn up BRO Draft and Jumpstart boxes at pre-spike prices, and a shop that can pull a Collector box from a sealed case is worth a premium over an online listing. Start with the card shop directory and check card shows for Commander decks and bundles. Online:

• MTG Brothers War Collector Booster Box sealed
• The Brothers War Draft Booster Box factory sealed 36 packs
• Brothers War serialized schematic 500