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5 Best Value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting Boxes — and the 5 Worst!

Months ago I calculated which Warhammer 40k Start Collecting and Combat Patrol boxes were the best value, and I have always been meaning to do the math to figure out the 5 best value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting boxes, too. I thought there would be no better time to figure out which of the Age of Sigmar Start Collecting were the best (and there are some really stunning winners here) and which are the worst (some were downright pathetic).

The methodology of this analysis is that I looked at all of the forces that come in an Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box, and then matched it against its price if you bought it individually. And if there were some units that you couldn’t buy individually, units that are ONLY in the Start Collecting box (I’m looking at you, Wight King on Skeletal Steed), then I went to eBay and took the best Buy It Now price for a model still on sprue.

So, without further ado, let’s look at the Age of Sigmar Start Collecting boxes and see what their values are.

The Age of Sigmar Start Collecting boxes are, in alphabetical order:

• Anvilgard
• Beastclaw Raiders
• Beasts of Chaos
• Daemons of Khorne
• Daemons of Nurgle
• Daemons of Slaanesh
• Daughters of Khaine
• Flesh-Eater Courts
• Fyreslayers
• Gloomspite Gitz
• Greywater Fastness
• Idoneth Deepkin
• Ironjawz
• Kharadron Overlords
• Khorne Bloodbound
• Maggotkin of Nurgle
• Seraphon
• Skaven Pestilens
• Skinks
• Slaves to Darkness
• Soulblight Gravelords
• Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike Brotherhood
• Sylvaneth

What Are the 5 Best Value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting Boxes?

#5. Soulblight Gravelords

Price as Start Collecting Box: $95

Price Bought Separately: $167.95

Total Value: 177%

The fifth best value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box is Soulblight Gravelords. Currently priced at $95 USD, when you break down all its component parts it comes to $167 if bought separately. This is one case–perhaps the most notorious place–where I had to use eBay to price an item: the Wight King on Skeletal Steed is ONLY available in the Soulblight Gravelords Start Collecting box. Buying the Wight King on eBay is currently $41.95 (for a new-on-sprue, Buy-It-Now, free-shipping price). The box is heavy on Grave Guard–you’ve got to really want 20 of them to make this worth it, because that’s where the bulk of the price comes from. Still this box is a great value.

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#4. Kharadron Overlords

Price as Start Collecting Box: $95

Price Bought Separately: $168

Total Value: 177%

The Kharadron Overlords Start Collecting box is just a really solid box. Each of the units in the box (which includes an Endrinmaster, 5 Grunstock Thunderers, 3 Skywardens, and a Grundstock Gunhauler) are valuable on their own–there’s not a throwaway piece in the box. No one unit is extremely expensive, which we’ll see elsewhere on this list, but each is just solid. The Gunhauler is the most expensive and only comes in at $50, but the Thunderers and the Skywardens are $44 each, and the Endrinmaster is $30. So, overall, the box is just plain good from start to finish.

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#3. Daughters of Khaine

Price as Start Collecting Box: $90

Price Bought Separately: $188.90

Total Value: 210%

I was blown away by how valuable the Daughters of Khaine Start Collecting box is and I had to check my math more than once. I have always viewed the Daughters of Khaine as one of the forgotten armies that doesn’t get any love and, while that may be true, the units in this box are valuable. Perhaps it’s actually BECAUSE they’re a forgotten army that they’re valuable: there just aren’t that many choices to put into the box, so they put in some of everything. You get their big unit, the Bloodrack Shrine, which is kind of a centerpiece for the army at $75, I had to turn to eBay on this army to get a Slaughter Queen. (Bought individually you can get the Bloodrack Shrine with either a Hag Queen or a Slaughter Queen, but the Daughters of Khaine Start Collecting box comes with both of them.) Really an astoundingly good value all around.

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#2. Fyreslayers

Price as Start Collecting Box: $95

Price Bought Separately: $220

Total Value: 235%

Again: blown away by the value in this box. When I calculated the Warhammer 40k best value Start Collecting boxes, the best value of all those was 201% and this is already at 235% and still in second place. Crazy. Makes me want to collect Fyreslayers. The bulk of the price comes from the Auric Runefather on Magmadroth, which is $95 all on its own. Seriously, the value of this Start Collecting box is that you’re buying an Auric Runefather on Magmadroth and getting everything else for free. Absolutely a tremendous value for this Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box.

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#1. Stormcast Eternals Thunderstrike Brotherhood

Price as Start Collecting Box: $85

Price Bought Separately: $233.80

Total Value: 275%

Yes, you read that right. This box is not only the cheapest Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box at $85, if bought separately it comes to $233.80. That is a staggering 275% value. Yes, I had to turn to eBay for a few of the items which sometimes seems to raise the price a bit, but honestly, not that much. (And in some cases, buying things on eBay is a lot cheaper.) Certainly not 275%. My hunch is that this is the best value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box for two reasons: first, because Stormcast Eternals are the Age of Sigmar poster children and Games Workshop pushes them, and second, because there are newer, better Stormcast Eternals available. If you want to get into Stormcast and you don’t mind the older version of the sculpts, then the Thunderstrike Brotherhood is hard to beat.

 

 

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What Are the Five Worst Value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting Boxes?

#5. Khorne Bloodbound

Price as Start Collecting Box: $85

Price Bought Separately: $121.99

Total Value: 144%

It’s important to remember in all of this that just because one of these boxes are the “worst value”, they’re still a value. You’re still getting $121 worth of models for $85, so there’s that. But that said, there isn’t a lot to love about this box. I had to turn to eBay A LOT for the Khorne Bloodbound because almost all of the models are only available in the Start Collecting box. (That may be the reason to buy the Start Collecting box, really: because you can only get the models here.) Still, it’s pretty weak.

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#4. Beastclaw Raiders

Price as Start Collecting Box: $90

Price Bought Separately: $125

Total Value: 139%

The Beastclaw Raiders, as expected, only have a handful of models in the box because Beastclaw Raiders are a low-model-count army–big, mean monsters that hit hard. The Stonehorn does most of the heavy lifting here, but the Mournfang Pack isn’t cheap either. Still, this amounts to just five models total in the whole box (not including the riders of the beasts). One thing that the box has in its favor: Stonehorns are often out of stock on the Games Workshop website so this may be the best place to be certain you can get one.

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#3. Daemons of Slaanesh

Price as Start Collecting Box: $90

Price Bought Separately: $123.75

Total Value: 138%

Poor Daemons of Slaanesh: they also were one of the worst value Start Collecting boxes for Warhammer 40k (they were actually worse there than they are here). To make this box worth it you’ve really got to love that Exalted Seeker Chariot because that’s where all the points go–the Daemonettes are just filler. And… that’s it in this box? It’s really a disappointment. (I say that as though I ever wanted to build a Slaanesh Army, and I don’t.)

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#2. Slaves to Darkness

Price as Start Collecting Box: $95

Price Bought Separately: $124

Total Value: 131%

This box is just… boring? The Chaos Lord on Karkadrak is the only really novel model, and its main selling point is that it’s really hard to glue together because it’s just so darn spiky. If you want Chaos Knights and Chaos Warriors, then maybe this box is for you, but I’m really underwhelmed (and I wasn’t expecting much to begin with).

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#1. Gloomspite Gitz

Price as Start Collecting Box: $95

Price Bought Separately: $105

Total Value: 111%

Yes, you read that right: this box costs $95 and only is worth $105 bought separately. The thing is: Squigs and Squig Herders themselves are only $45, and the Troggoths are $60, and that’s it for this box. You would think that something like the Gloomspite Gitz would have a higher model count but this is really all there is to this box. At 111% it is the worst value Age of Sigmar Start Collecting box.

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