Every Shanks Card in the One Piece Card Game

By CardSpicy Founder · October 4, 2026

Quick answer

Bandai’s card database lists 19 distinct Shanks cards as Characters and 3 as Leaders, 22 in total, spread across 18 products. That makes Shanks the 11th most-drawn character in the game. CardSpicy indexes every One Piece card by its code, and the table below is the whole list for this character.

Shanks is the 11th most-drawn character in the game, and the count below is everything Bandai has printed for them — including the printings that share a card number and differ only in art.

There are two ways to build a One Piece collection and the first is to pick a character and take everything printed for them. It is the way that needs the least judgement: the character decides the list, and the list is finite and printed on the cards. What follows is that list for Shanks — every Character card and every Leader card, with the numbers that are actually printed on the card: colour, cost or life, power, counter, and the product each one came from first.

How many Shanks cards are there?

Bandai’s official card database lists 19 distinct cards of Shanks in the Character slot and 3 in the Leader slot, for 22 in total, spread across 18 products. That makes Shanks the 11th most-drawn character in the game on this measure.

The earliest printing is OP-01, released December 2, 2022, and the most recent product carrying any Shanks card is OP-17, released August 28, 2026. Counting every alternate treatment on the way, the database holds 59 Shanks entries that resolve to those 22 cards — the extra 37 are different printings of a card already in the list, not cards of their own.

Every Shanks card, listed

Every Shanks Character card, read out of the official database and sorted by card number. Cost is the number in the top-left of the card; power and counter are printed values, and a dash means the card carries none. “First printed in” is the earliest product that carried the card, which is not always the product whose number the card is named after.

Shanks as a Leader

Shanks also has 3 Leader cards. A Leader is the one card that is always in play: its colour decides what the deck may contain and its life total is what the opponent is trying to remove. Leader life runs at 5 on every one of them. A Leader card is never played from hand and never has a cost, which is why the column below reads life rather than cost.

Which colours and costs Shanks appears at

Shanks has been printed in 6 of the six colours. The busiest are Red (11), Green (5), Purple (3). A character’s colour is a property of the card, not of the character: the same crew member can be Red in one product and Green in another, and each printing is a separate card that only works in a deck of its own colour.

Cost is spread from 1 to 10, with 5 cards at cost 10 alone. Printed power runs from 2,000 to 12,000. Cost and power are the two numbers that decide where a card sits in a deck, and both are printed on the card rather than set by the set it came from.

What Shanks’s cards have in common

Every Shanks card carries at least one type line, printed under the name, and those lines are what the card’s own effects are allowed to refer to. Across this set the lines break down like this:

Attributes work the same way one level down. The attribute printed on a card is what effects that name an attribute can point at; here the most common are Slash (19).

Effect keywords are the other shared vocabulary. Not every card has one, and the counts below are out of all 22 Shanks cards, so a blank row would mean no card of this character carries that keyword at all:

How these counts are made

The counts on this page are read out of Bandai’s own card database at the date shown in the footer, then de-duplicated: every alternate treatment carries the same card number as the card it decorates, so it is folded into that card rather than counted again. That is why the number of cards here is smaller than the number of rows the database returns.

Nothing on this page is priced. 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, so the two are kept apart deliberately. Popularity here is a count of cards printed, which is a fact in the database, and not an opinion about which cards are good.

Frequently asked questions

How many Shanks cards are there?

19 Character cards and 3 Leader cards, 22 in total, spread across 18 products. Alternate treatments are counted as printings of the card they belong to rather than as separate cards.

What colours is Shanks printed in?

6 of the six colours: Red 11, Green 5, Purple 3, Black 1, Blue 1, Yellow 1. The colour is a property of the individual card, so the same character can be printed in more than one colour across different products.

Is Shanks a Leader in the One Piece Card Game?

Yes. Shanks has 3 Leader cards, printed in Green (1), Purple (1), Red (1). A Leader sets the colours a deck may use and carries the life total the game is played for, so it is the one card in a One Piece deck that is not a choice made during the game.

Which sets is Shanks in?

Across 18 products, starting with OP-01 on December 2, 2022 and running to OP-17 on August 28, 2026. The full list of products is on the set-code page.

How many alternate arts does Shanks have?

37 alternate treatments: 59 entries in the database resolve to 22 distinct cards. An alternate treatment keeps the card number and the effect and changes only the art and finish.

Sources

Sources and further reading

1. Bandai — the official One Piece Card Game card database for the English edition, the source of every card number, colour, cost, power, counter and product on this page.
2. CardSpicy — the most-drawn characters, card by card, where this character appears alongside the other 29 on the same measured list.
3. CardSpicy — how many One Piece cards there are, for the same count taken across the whole game instead of one character.
4. CardSpicy — the full set-code list, where every product named above is listed with its release date.
5. CardSpicy — how to read a One Piece card number, for the code in the first column of the table.

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.

Related reading

• Every Usopp Card in the One Piece Card Game
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• How Many One Piece Cards Are There?
• One Piece Card Set Codes, Listed in Full

Where to go next

• The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
• The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).