*Exception: If you only care about volume of cards and not the rarity, then Draft Boosters will give you more than any other boosters
How good the bonus is depends on the store, and it usually lands somewhere between 15% and 30%
But for the rest, all but the most obsessive optimisers can easily forgo the hip-pocket hit from these cards and grab their value-brand replacements
Once you internalize that, the card evaluations below become obvious: ask of every card, is this a source or a payoff, and does the rest of my deck cover the other side? Best lifegain sources (the engines) You want repeatable, incremental gain lots of small triggers beat one big lifegain spell, because payoffs like Vito or Archangel of Thune care about the number of times you gain, not just the total
As a frame of reference, this card hovered around $1000-$3000 in 2019, but now has an average price of about $15,000