Quick answer
The official One Piece card database uses nine rarity labels: C, UC, R, SR, L, P, SEC, SP Card and TR. Three of them — Secret Rare, SP Card and Treasure Rare — exist only as alternate treatments of a card that already has a base rarity, which is why the highest tiers are counted in treatments rather than in cards. CardSpicy labels every card in its index with the rarity exactly as the database records it.
Rarity tells you how the card was printed. It does not tell you what the card is worth, and it is not a grade.
Nine labels is enough for people to lose track of, especially because the top of the ladder works differently from the bottom. Below Super Rare, a rarity belongs to a card. Above it, the rarity belongs to a treatment of a card — which is the distinction that decides whether you are counting one card or two.
The nine labels
| Label | Stands for | Base cards | All entries |
|---|---|---|---|
C |
Common | 1,162 | 1,547 |
UC |
Uncommon | 513 | 787 |
R |
Rare | 540 | 1,007 |
SR |
Super Rare | 286 | 674 |
L |
Leader | 139 | 320 |
P |
Promotion | 105 | 231 |
SEC |
Secret Rare | 40 | 134 |
SP CARD |
Special treatment | 0 | 132 |
TR |
Treasure Rare | 0 | 12 |
The right-hand column is every entry in the database; the left column is how many distinct cards those entries resolve to once treatments are folded back into the card they belong to. Read across the last two rows and the point becomes obvious: SP Card and Treasure Rare never appear on a base printing at all.
Why the top of the ladder works differently
A Secret Rare in One Piece is usually an existing card given a second, rarer printing. The base printing keeps its ordinary rarity — often Rare or Super Rare — and the Secret Rare treatment sits beside it on the same number. That is why there are 40 distinct Secret Rare cards but 134 Secret Rare entries: the treatments are what you are actually holding.
Treasure Rare is the narrowest label in the game, with twelve entries in total, and SP Card sits between the two with 132. Together the three make 278 treatments across 161 distinct cards. All of them are listed, per treatment, in the chase section of the index.
Leader and Promotion are rarities, not tiers
L and P are on the same list but are not rungs on the same ladder. L marks a Leader card — a card that can only ever be your Leader, printed once per product with a fixed life total. P marks a promotional card, which is distributed outside the booster packs. Both are counted as printed rarity labels, and neither tells you how hard a particular card was to obtain.
What rarity does not tell you
It does not tell you how many were printed, and the database does not publish that. It does not tell you what the card sells for: a Secret Rare of a character nobody collects and a Secret Rare of the protagonist carry the same label. And it is not a condition grade — a Treasure Rare with a bent corner is still a Treasure Rare.
Treat rarity as a filter for what to look at next, and read the character, the treatment and the set beside it before you conclude anything about the card.
Frequently asked questions
How many rarity labels does One Piece use?
Nine: C, UC, R, SR, L, P, SEC, SP Card and TR. Secret Rare, SP Card and Treasure Rare are the three that only ever appear as alternate treatments rather than as base printings.
Is Secret Rare the rarest One Piece card?
It has the fewest distinct cards of the booster tiers, but Treasure Rare is the narrowest label overall: twelve entries against 134 for Secret Rare. Which label is rarer in print numbers is not published by Bandai, so the label alone will not settle it.
Are SP Cards separate cards?
No. An SP Card is a treatment of a card that already exists with its own number and its own ordinary rarity. There are 132 SP Card entries in the database and zero distinct cards that only ever exist as an SP Card.
What does the L rarity mean?
L marks a Leader card. A Leader is never shuffled into the deck, it carries the life total the player defends, and it decides which colours the deck may use. Leader is a card type as well as a rarity label.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- Bandai — the official One Piece Card Game card database, the source of every label and every count in the table above.
- CardSpicy — the chase section of the card index, which lists all 278 Secret, SP and Treasure treatments individually.
- CardSpicy — how to read a One Piece card number, for the suffix that sits beside the rarity.
- CardSpicy — the six colours of DON!!, for how colour interacts with everything else on a card.
- CardSpicy — One Piece promo cards, for the P label in detail.
Card statistics on this page are counted from Bandai’s own card database at the date shown, so they move as the database is updated. Prices are not quoted here: this site prices graded cards in US dollars from observed sales, and a raw-card figure would be a different number measured a different way. Where a card is described as part of a set, the set code and release date are the English edition.