Digimon Card Game / Booster Display
Alternative Being [EX04] 24-Pack Booster Display EV Calculator
Estimate this physical product's no-chase expected value with a product-, region-, language-, and printing-specific model.
Compare the modeled EV range with your entered product cost to review estimated ROI. This planning metric is not a guaranteed return.
Simulation order: complete product contents are drawn first. Included-pool controls and optional Sift are applied only after the draw, and filtered outcomes are never replaced or backfilled.
- Release
- June 23, 2023
- Market scope
- English / North America / Standard English retail printing; manufacturer wave undisclosed
- Default singles price
- TCGplayer Low
- Model file
/data-static/digimon/alternative-being/models/booster-display-no-chase.json
Publisher + empirical collation
Evidence
This calculator is based on Publisher + empirical collation reviewed July 23, 2026.
Empirical sample
- Sample unit
- Case
- Sample size
- 1
- Observed
- Not reported by the source
- Region
- English-market sealed product; country and manufacturer printing wave undisclosed
- Case correlations
- Preserved
- Method
- Prominently labeled empirical collation from the immutable EX-04: Theme Booster Alternative Being product revision: 12 displays / 288 packs are documented as one English sealed-case breakdown. The model preserves the named product's case aggregate, removes the complete premium branch, and derives only case-average non-chase expected counts. The source does not disclose the opening date, country, printing wave, or number of independently opened cases beyond the documented sealed-case unit.
Sources
- Digimon Card Game - Alternative Being [EX04] - Bandai (accessed 2026-07-21)
- EX-04: Theme Booster Alternative Being - immutable collation snapshot - DigimonCardGame Wiki community (accessed 2026-07-21)
- TCGCSV Digimon Card Game category groups - TCGCSV (accessed 2026-07-21) — identity and pricing were imported into local generated artifacts; the calculator does not call the raw endpoint.
- TCGCSV Alternative Being Booster sealed products - TCGCSV (accessed 2026-07-21) — identity and pricing were imported into local generated artifacts; the calculator does not call the raw endpoint.
- Owner-directed ordinary-pool no-chase redraw classification - The Expected Value (accessed 2026-07-23)
Limitations
- Prominently labeled empirical collation: one documented English sealed-case unit comprising 12 displays / 288 packs. Independent case count, country, opening interval, and manufacturer printing wave are undisclosed. The immutable wiki revision date 2025-09-19 is a source snapshot date, not an asserted observation date.
- Empirical observation start (observedFrom): undisclosed by the source.
- Empirical observation end (observedThrough): undisclosed by the source.
- Empirical sample printing wave (wave): not reported by the source.
- Empirical sample printing detail (printingDetail): not reported by the source.
- Independent sealed-case count (independentCases): undisclosed beyond the one documented case unit.
- The documented English sealed-case totals reconcile 288 guaranteed Rare cards plus 288 replacement-upgrade outcomes: 174 extra Rare, 72 Super Rare, 6 Secret Rare, and 36 excluded alternate-art outcomes.
- Publisher-supported fixed-bonus treatment: No fixed display bonus is identified in the official product contents; no topper or purchase promotion is modeled.
- The source preserves a sealed-case aggregate and the record preserves the 12-display/288-pack outer structure. Display expected counts are exactly 24 times pack expectations; within-case display assignment, hit-count variance, and per-display guarantees are not disclosed, so the calculation is marginal-only.
- Modeling policy approved 2026-07-23: every supported ordinary card in the same slot, rarity, treatment, and finish pool receives one equal positive selection weight. This is a transparent modeling assumption where the publisher or empirical sample gives pool odds but not card-level sheet weights.
- No-chase redraw policy approved 2026-07-23: Curio, Enchanted, alternate-art, parallel, showcase, serialized, signature, premium-rarity, promotional, and any other card or treatment without a supported pull rate are excluded. A chase hit is redrawn from the applicable supported ordinary pool, so excluded cards occupy no modeled outcome.
- Simulation ordering is draw the complete disclosed no-chase product first, record that draw, and only then apply Sift or another user filter. Sift never changes or backfills the completed modeled draw.
Local price snapshots
Pricing
TCGplayer Low is the default singles price for the first calculation and remains selected until changed. Resetting the price source returns to TCGplayer Low.
- Measured row coverage
- 100.0%
- Measured modeled mass
- 100.0%
- Coverage observed
- July 23, 2026
- Low-price source
- Available Via Tcgcsv
No catalog-level price fallbacks are recorded. Runtime gaps are disclosed below when data loads.
TCGplayer Low coverage will be checked against the loaded local price snapshot.
No-chase model
Chase Exclusions
Excluded chase families are removed from the model entirely. They are never retained as zero-EV occupied outcomes. Each affected physical position is instead filled from its disclosed supported ordinary pool before the product draw is completed.
- Alternate-art, parallel, and promotional cards
- Unpriced or incomplete-metadata special cards
Product snapshot
Modeled Product Structure
- Cards per pack
- 12
- Packs per booster display
- 24
- Booster Displays per case
- 12
- Draw order
- Complete draw, then filters
All modeled slots are resolved before pool toggles or Sift score the opened product. This ordering prevents replacement draws from inflating EV.
Included poolsChoose which already-drawn pools count toward EV.
Booster Display EV
| Metric | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross EV | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Seller fees | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Net after fees | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Profit after purchase | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Break-even price (Mid) | $0.00 | ||
Purchase EV & Estimated ROI
| Metric | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross EV | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Total fees | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Net after fees | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Profit after expenses | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Modeled ROI vs entered cost | -- | -- | -- |
booster displays: 0 · Price/booster display: $0.00 · Total cost: $0.00
How is estimated ROI calculated? It equals modeled profit divided by the entered product cost. Modeled profit subtracts that product cost, selected seller fees, and any entered order or shipping costs from the modeled resale value. It is not a guaranteed return; pull variance, market price changes, taxes, and other unmodeled selling costs can change actual resale results.
Sealed Price / EV
Marketplace rows retain marketplace-only labels and use each marketplace's low sealed-product price.
| Marketplace | Product price | Break-even price | P/E | Basis |
|---|
Simulation Results
Low, Mid, and High are all derived from this same recalculated result set.
Confidence band: --
Expected contribution
Card Value Breakdown
| Name | Set | Card # | Rarity | Treatment | Value | Seller fees | Products / copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expected cards/booster display after toggles and Sift | 0.00 | ||||||
| All modeled game-card rows | 0.00 | ||||||
| Gap to modeled card total | 0.00 | ||||||
The simulator draws the full physical product first, then applies disabled pools and optional Sift. Filtered outcomes occupy their actual slots and are never backfilled.