Rock-Bottom Still Too Expensive for Spider-Man Collector Boxes

Last updated on October 8, 2025

Path to Exile | Illustration by John Romita Sr.

Spider-Man has run out of webs, and is in free fall right now.

Or at least that's what Spider-Man‘s Collector Booster Display boxes are doing right now, currently selling for a whopping 50% of what they cost just a few weeks ago.

After Final Fantasy‘s record-breaking performance, looks like Spider-Man may be another record-breaker… but in this case, for all the negative reasons.

Spider-Man Going Down

Ademi of the Silkchutes – Illustration by Filip Burburan

After reaching a $977 peak in mid-August, Spidey's CBDs went downhill and lost close to 30% of that value in early September, as we reported a few weeks ago:

Then they rebounded to $730 (up from $670) a couple of weeks before release, but since then it's been falling all the way down, trading for less than $500 nowadays:

Source: TCGplayer

Why Are Spider-Man Collector Booster Displays Crashing?

The simple explanation is, of course, “Magic players ain't buying” – and the cold, hard truth seems to be that Spider-Man really fails to meet player expectations.

“Spider-Man underwhelmed on just about every front,” wrote Harvey McGuinness for MTGStocks, analyzing this financial crash. “The flavor wasn’t quite there. The power level didn’t blow anyone away. And, save for some individual standouts, the value wasn’t great.”

This won't be Magic's first flop, of course – but such a low after Final Fantasy‘s record-breaking high have changed expectations quite forcefully.

In particular, SPM's crash shows that Final Fantasy‘s hype is still huge… for Final Fantasy. But it's no longer rubbing off to other upcoming Universes Beyond franchises. Final Fantasy Collector Boosters Display boxes are still well over the $1200 mark, and Fallout‘s are even higher at over $1400, so there's definitely huge demand for some Universes Beyond sets. But Avatar: The Last Airbender has also run out of hype quite abruptly, dropping from over $1100 to about $850.

Source: TCGplayer

While Fallout shows that Final Fantasy is a complete outlier, it's clear that Magic players are no longer to pay those prices for sets they haven't seen yet.

MTG Arena's Pick-Two Draft is Awful

SPM's Pick-Two draft experience has been so bad that Limited Resources (one of the the most respected content creators when it comes to drafting Magic) have already issued their sunset episode – even when the format is less than two weeks old!

Slim Pickings for Collectors

Compared to Final Fantasy, SPM is a fairly low-value set. The only chase card is the non-serialized cosmic foil The Soul Stone, while Final Fantasy has the serialized and Neon Ink Traveling Chocobos across languages, plus marquee characters in premium foils, and bucketloads of alternate art versions.

Spider-Man's Puny 60-Card Punch

SPM cards are failing to have too much of an impact in competitive 60-card formas. As we reported yesterday, Superior Spider-Man is making a few waves in Standard and Modern… but that seems to be about it. 

Hate versus Love

The Battle of Bywater – Illustration by Tomas Duchek

All in all, the real reason is the simplest: Players just didn't fall in love with Spidey, and some are even loving to see it fail:

“This whole set has been so underwhelming,” notes u/TheHumanPickleRick in one of the most-upvoted replies in one of the Reddit threads discussing Spidey's downfall.

An underwhelming set, with little to entice collectors or constructed players, has demonstrated that Final Fantasy‘s appeal wasn't just the IP: You need an actually good MTG set for players to buy it in droves.