Category: One Piece

CardSpicy articles about the One Piece Card Game — sets, card effects, numbers and what to collect first.

OP-16 The Time of Battle, card by card

Quick answer

OP-16 The Time of Battle is the sixteenth numbered One Piece booster, released in English on 12 June 2026. We track 62 cards in it: 6 Leaders, 38 Characters, 16 Events and 2 Stages. Every one of them is listed below by the number printed on the card.

Counts on this page are cards we track, not the printed size of the set. Bandai does not publish one official total for a booster, and a row in a card database is not the same thing as a card, so this page counts what we can point at.

What OP-16 is built from

A numbered booster is put together the same way each time: a handful of Leaders, the bulk of the set in Characters, a block of Events, and one or two Stages that sit on the board instead of being shuffled away. OP-16 follows that shape, and it leans harder on Characters than on Events.

Its six Leaders between them cover every colour in the game. Two of the six are two-colour Leaders, which carry four life rather than the five a single-colour Leader runs.

Card type	Cards we track
Leader	6
Character	38
Event	16
Stage	2
Total	62

The six Leaders

Every deck is built around one of these. The card is not shuffled in: it carries the life total the deck is defending, and it sets which colours the rest of the deck is allowed to use.

Card no.	Leader	Colour
OP16-001	Portgas.D.Ace	Red
OP16-022	Monkey.D.Luffy	Green/Blue
OP16-041	Buggy	Blue
OP16-060	Sengoku	Purple
OP16-079	Yamato	Black
OP16-080	Marshall.D.Teach	Black/Yellow

Above Super Rare

Three cards in OP-16 sit above the ordinary rarity ladder. Two are Secret Rares, one printed Red and one Yellow, and one is a Treasure Rare printed in Red. Everything else in the set falls into the common run of Common, Uncommon, Rare and Super Rare.

The full checklist

62 cards, in the order of the numbers printed on them. The rarity codes are the ones printed on the card: C, UC, R, SR and SEC are the ladder up to Secret Rare, TR marks a Treasure Rare, and L marks a Leader.

Card no.	Card	Type	Rarity	Colour
OP16-001	Portgas.D.Ace	Leader	L	Red
OP16-003	Edward.Newgate	Character	SR	Red
OP16-006	Shanks	Character	C	Red
OP16-011	Vista	Character	TR	Red
OP16-015	Monkey.D.Luffy	Character	SR	Red
OP16-019	Let's Show 'Em What We're Made Of!!	Event	C	Red
OP16-020	If You're Coming with Me… Kiss Your Lives Goodbye!!	Event	UC	Red
OP16-021	Moby Dick	Stage	R	Red
OP16-022	Monkey.D.Luffy	Leader	L	Green/Blue
OP16-026	Emporio.Ivankov	Character	SR	Green
OP16-027	Jinbe	Character	R	Green
OP16-030	Trafalgar Law	Character	R	Green
OP16-031	Buggy	Character	UC	Green
OP16-032	Boa Hancock	Character	SR	Green
OP16-034	Monkey.D.Luffy	Character	R	Green
OP16-035	Roronoa Zoro	Character	C	Green
OP16-038	Let's Go!! To the Navy Headquarters!!	Event	R	Green
OP16-039	Gum-Gum Twin Jet Pistol	Event	C	Green
OP16-040	Gum-Gum Hammer Rifle	Event	UC	Green
OP16-041	Buggy	Leader	L	Blue
OP16-043	Usopp	Character	UC	Blue
OP16-044	Emporio.Ivankov	Character	C	Blue
OP16-045	Crocodile	Character	UC	Blue
OP16-046	Jinbe	Character	C	Blue
OP16-047	Donquixote Doflamingo	Character	C	Blue
OP16-048	Buggy	Character	SR	Blue
OP16-049	Portgas.D.Ace	Character	C	Blue
OP16-052	Monkey.D.Luffy	Character	UC	Blue
OP16-053	Roronoa Zoro	Character	C	Blue
OP16-057	Captain Buggy's Our Savior!!	Event	C	Blue
OP16-058	The Prisoners Are Rioting!!	Event	R	Blue
OP16-059	We'll Change This Mission from Sneaky to Flashy!	Event	UC	Blue
OP16-060	Sengoku	Leader	L	Purple
OP16-064	Koby	Character	R	Purple
OP16-068	Trafalgar Law	Character	C	Purple
OP16-069	Donquixote Doflamingo	Character	C	Purple
OP16-075	Monkey.D.Garp	Character	C	Purple
OP16-076	The Three Admirals!!	Event	UC	Purple
OP16-077	"Buddha" Sengoku	Event	R	Purple
OP16-078	Marineford	Stage	UC	Purple
OP16-079	Yamato	Leader	L	Black
OP16-080	Marshall.D.Teach	Leader	L	Black/Yellow
OP16-086	Sanji	Character	C	Black
OP16-089	Dracule Mihawk	Character	C	Black
OP16-090	Tony Tony.Chopper	Character	C	Black
OP16-091	Nami	Character	R	Black
OP16-092	Nico Robin	Character	UC	Black
OP16-093	Bartholomew Kuma	Character	C	Black
OP16-094	Portgas.D.Ace	Character	UC	Black
OP16-095	Monkey.D.Luffy	Character	R	Black
OP16-096	Yamato	Character	R	Black
OP16-097	Yamato	Character	R	Black
OP16-098	Yamato	Character	SR	Black
OP16-099	I've Come Here… To Cut Those Chains!!!	Event	UC	Black
OP16-100	Hallowed Glacier Slash	Event	C	Black
OP16-101	Mahoroba	Event	C	Black
OP16-112	Boa Hancock	Character	C	Yellow
OP16-115	Black Vortex	Event	UC	Yellow
OP16-116	Zehahahahaha!	Event	R	Yellow
OP16-117	Black Hole	Event	C	Yellow
OP16-118	Portgas.D.Ace	Character	SEC	Red
OP16-119	Marshall.D.Teach	Character	SEC	Yellow

Frequently asked questions

How many cards are in OP-16?

We track 62 cards in OP-16 so far: 6 Leaders, 38 Characters, 16 Events and 2 Stages. We print the number we can point at rather than a single official total, because Bandai does not publish one for a booster.

When was OP-16 released?

It went on sale in English on 12 June 2026. The Japanese release of the same booster came earlier in the year.

How many Leaders does OP-16 have?

Six, and between them they cover every colour in the game: Red, Green and Blue, Blue, Purple, Black, and Black and Yellow. Two of the six are two-colour Leaders and carry four life instead of five.

Which OP-16 cards sit above Super Rare?

Three. Two Secret Rares, OP16-118 Portgas.D.Ace in Red and OP16-119 Marshall.D.Teach in Yellow, and one Treasure Rare, OP16-011 Vista in Red.

Does this page list prices?

No. We do not print prices for One Piece here, because we do not track a grading market for this game. The list records what exists, with its type, rarity and colour.

Sources

Where this list comes from

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official card database — the card number, name, card type, rarity and colour of every card listed on this page.
Bandai, One Piece Card Game official product list, English edition — the release date of the set.
CardSpicy, our own One Piece card index — the set and the cards we maintain entries for.

This page prints no prices. It lists which cards exist and what each one is, and nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

Standard and Eternal: How One Piece Card Rotation Works

Quick answer

The One Piece Card Game is played under two formats, and which one applies decides whether a card may be played at all. Standard Regulation admits only cards from the most recent blocks and is the default for organised play. Eternal Regulation admits every card ever printed. Rotation is the mechanism that moves Standard forward: when a block leaves the format, every card in it stops being legal there in a single step, because the format changed rather than the card. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than deck-legal singles, so this page is about the one property of a card that a card cannot show you.

A rotation retires a block. It does not retire a card.

Legality is easy to mistake for a property of the object. It is not. The same card, unchanged, unmarked and unsealed, can be entirely legal in one format, legal in another, and prohibited in a third, and the only thing that moved is a list published by the publisher. That is why the two facts are worth keeping apart, and why this page states the current position rather than a permanent rule.

Two formats, decided before the first card

	Standard Regulation	Eternal Regulation
What it admits	Cards from a moving window of the most recent blocks	Every card ever printed
Role	The default format for organised play	The format that keeps older cards playable
Effect of a new release	It enters the window	It simply joins everything already legal
Effect of a rotation	An older block leaves, taking its cards with it	Nothing leaves

Both formats use the same card pool in the physical sense. The difference is entirely a matter of which blocks are inside the window, which means a deck that was legal last season can become illegal without a single card being changed.

What a block is

A block is a group of releases. Main sets, extra boosters and starter decks are each assigned to a block, and Standard is defined by naming blocks rather than by naming individual sets. That is what makes rotation a single event instead of a long list of bans: when a block leaves the window, everything assigned to it leaves together.

Term	What it refers to
Block	A group of releases, used to define what Standard admits
Block number	The label attached to a release, which determines when it leaves Standard
Rotation	The event that removes an older block from Standard
Eternal	The format defined by the absence of any block window

Individual cards carry their block information separately from their colour, type and rarity, which is why a card can be read for many properties and still tell you nothing about legality.

What Standard currently admits

Publishers and community trackers have described the floor of Standard differently, and the difference is material enough to state rather than resolve.

Source	Position on the current Standard floor
Community rules trackers	A floor set at the second block, naming the sets and starter decks that belong to it and everything released afterwards
Community reference pages	A floor set a block later, naming a later run of main sets as the earliest legal ones

The two descriptions agree on the shape of the rule and disagree on where the edge currently sits, which is exactly the kind of difference that decides whether one specific deck is legal. Treat any published floor as a dated statement, and check the official list for the event you are entering rather than a page that summarises it.

Rotation and the banned list are different tools

These are two separate mechanisms and they are easy to conflate, because both end with a card that cannot be played.

	Rotation	Banned list
What changes	The format	The card
Scope	Every card in the block, at once	Only the named cards
Reason	Age of the block	Effect on the game
Reversible	Not in practice	Yes, and cards do come back

A card can be perfectly modern and still banned, and a card can be old and still legal in Eternal. The current banned cards, the banned pairs and the empty restricted list are set out separately on our ban list page, and that page is worth reading alongside this one, because a card has to clear both checks.

Japan moves first

The same change does not take effect everywhere on the same day. A restriction announced by the publisher has historically taken effect in Japan about three weeks ahead of the other regions, and that gap has survived the shift to closer simultaneous release dates. For a player near a changeover, the practical consequence is that the legal deck for an event depends on where the event is, not only on when it is.

The publisher also updates restrictions on a rhythm rather than continuously, typically around major championship events, with room for an urgent change outside that rhythm. A rotation is announced in advance; a ban has been known to arrive with a few weeks of notice.

What a rotation does to a collection

Rotation removes play demand from a block. That is the honest part of the effect: cards inside a block that leaves Standard lose the demand that came from being needed in decks, while demand that has nothing to do with play — a character, an artwork, a grade — is a different question and moves on its own.

Two directions are worth keeping separate rather than blending into one story. A card that becomes legal again after a period out of the format tends to see demand return, because the supply had been sitting untouched. A card that leaves a format tends to lose only the demand that was tied to the format. Neither movement says anything about the card’s condition, its grade, or its place in a collection.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Standard and Eternal in the One Piece Card Game?

Standard Regulation admits only cards from the most recent blocks and is the default for organised play. Eternal Regulation admits every card ever printed. Both use the same physical cards; the difference is which blocks are inside the window.

Does rotation mean my card is worthless?

No. Rotation removes the block from the Standard format, which removes the play demand attached to that format. Demand that comes from a character, an artwork or a grade is a separate question, and Eternal still admits the card.

Is a rotated card the same as a banned card?

No. Rotation changes the format and applies to a whole block at once. A ban names individual cards and can be reversed. A modern card can be banned, and an old card can be legal in Eternal.

Which block is the current floor of Standard?

Published summaries disagree by one block, so the floor is best read as a dated statement rather than a fixed rule. For any specific event, check the official list for that event rather than a summary page.

Do all regions rotate at the same time?

No. Restrictions have historically taken effect in Japan roughly three weeks before the other regions, and that gap applies to rotation and bans alike. The legal deck therefore depends on where the event is held.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official rules and regulation pages, which define Standard Regulation and Eternal Regulation and publish the current list.
Bandai, official card database — the block and release fields that assign a card to a group, which is what a rotation acts on.
Third-party rules trackers and card shops, which summarise the current floor of Standard and differ from each other by one block; both positions are described above rather than resolved.
Scope note: this page describes how rotation works and where the format stands. It does not quote prices, and the effect of rotation on demand is described by direction only.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

Banned, Restricted and Banned Pairs in the One Piece Card Game

Quick answer

The One Piece Card Game keeps three restriction lists, and they are not interchangeable: cards that are banned outright, cards restricted to a limited number of copies, and banned pairs that cannot sit in the same deck as each other. At the date on this page five cards are banned, the restricted list is empty, and three pairs are banned. A sixth card joins the banned list on 12 October 2026: OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, a green Leader, together with every parallel printing of it. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than raw singles, so the question this page answers is the one a card cannot answer about itself — whether the copy in front of you may legally be played.

A ban changes what a card may be used for. It does not change what the card is.

Restriction lists are the least photogenic part of a trading card game and the most consequential. A card can be genuine, well centred, sealed in a case, and still be unplayable, because legality is a property of the rulebook rather than of the object. That is why the two facts are worth keeping apart, and why this page states the list as the official sites publish it rather than paraphrasing it.

Three lists, not one

Bandai publishes the restrictions as separate categories, and each one constrains a deck in a different way.

List	What it means	Cards on it
Banned	The card cannot be included in any deck at all	5 now, 6 from 12 October 2026
Restricted	The card may be included, but only up to a set number of copies	0
Banned pair	Either card may be played; the two may not be played together	3

The first two are easy to lose track of. A restricted card is a legal card with a lower ceiling on how many copies you may run. A banned card cannot be run at all. In the One Piece Card Game at the date shown, only the first and the third lists are in use.

What is banned right now

Five cards are banned as this page is written. Each is banned by its card code, which means the restriction attaches to one specific printing rather than to the character: Dracule Mihawk has many cards, and one of them is on this list.

Card	Character	Status
`OP06-047`	Charlotte Pudding	Banned, in force
`OP03-040`	Nami	Banned, in force
`OP06-086`	Gecko Moria	Banned, in force
`ST10-001`	Trafalgar Law	Banned, in force
`OP06-116`	Reject	Banned, in force
`OP14-020`	Dracule Mihawk	Banned from 12 October 2026

The list is cumulative rather than the record of a single event, and the entries did not all arrive together. The official list publishes its revisions by effective date, and those dates differ by region, so a card that has been banned for a year in one market may be newer to the list in another. Where a ban date matters, the date to use is the one on the official page for the region your event is played in.

What is banned in pairs

A banned pair works the other way round from a banned card. Neither card is illegal on its own; the combination is. Two of the three pairs currently in force share a card.

Card A	Card B
`OP11-040` Monkey.D.Luffy	`OP11-067` Charlotte Katakuri
`OP11-040` Monkey.D.Luffy	`OP08-069` Charlotte Linlin
`OP07-115` I Re-Quasar Helllp!!	`EB04-058` Borsalino

Pair bans exist because the problem in a deck is sometimes not a card but a join between two of them. The two Luffy pairings above show that logic plainly: the same Leader is legal in one deck and illegal in another, depending only on what sits beside it.

The restricted list is empty

The game publishes three tools and currently uses two. The restricted category, which caps how many copies of a card a deck may contain, holds no cards at the date shown. That is worth stating rather than leaving out, because a reader coming from another card game will expect a middle tier to exist and will go looking for it. Here there is none: a card is either freely playable, playable only apart from one specific partner, or banned.

Why the Mihawk Leader was banned

The official notice explains the decision in terms of deck diversity rather than raw strength. Bandai states that as more booster products were released, combinations built around the card became more powerful than the development team had anticipated, and that the card significantly restricts the viability of Leader cards carrying the {Slash} attribute, harming the diversity of Leader selection. Part of the objection is therefore about the future: the notice says the restriction was made with cards still to be released in view.

The same notice announces a replacement. A new Leader, P-163 Dracule Mihawk, is to be distributed at future events and is described officially as carrying a new text. Third-party coverage of the change reads that replacement as keeping the character’s stats while removing the {Slash} bonus the banned version carries; that reading does not appear in the wording of the official notice, so it is recorded here as a report rather than as a rule.

What the notice does not include is any buyback or compensation, and bans in this game have historically not come with one. The honest description is that the change rearranges which decks can be built rather than settling accounts with the people who built the old ones.

Which printing of a card a ban covers

Every entry in the official list is by card code, and the notices attach one line to those codes: parallel cards, meaning alternate-art printings, are included. A ban therefore follows the card rather than the picture. If the card is illegal, each of its treatments is illegal with it.

That matters more in this game than in some others, because the same base card can exist in several printed forms and the form is often the reason someone owns it. An alternate-art printing is a different object to own and the same object to play, and the restriction list judges the second of those.

How the list changes, and when

The official policy puts revisions at roughly two points a year: one after the conclusion of Championship Season 1 in Japan, and one after the World Championship. The same policy reserves the right to add a card outside those windows when the development team judges that the environment requires it, and the notice that adds Mihawk is an example of that reserved path being used.

Two practical consequences follow. First, a list date is not automatically your list date: each regional official site keeps its own page and its own history of effective dates, and those histories do not line up entry for entry. Second, the language your cards must be in is a separate rule from the list itself — Bandai’s tournament rules require English-language cards for the Leader and main deck in North America, Latin America and Oceania, and English or French in Europe.

What a ban does, and what it does not do

A ban removes a card from competitive play, which removes the reason a competitor had to own one. It does not remove the reason a collector had to own one, and those are different demands. Reading a restriction change as a statement about what a card is worth confuses the two; the change is a statement about how a card may be used.

This site prices graded cards in US dollars from observed sales and does not publish raw-card figures, so no number is quoted here for any card named on this page. What can be said without a number is that a card’s legality and a card’s desirability are decided by different groups of people, and a ban is a decision by the first group.

Frequently asked questions

How many cards are banned in the One Piece Card Game?

Five cards are banned as of this page’s date, with a sixth, OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, joining on 12 October 2026. Three card pairs are banned as combinations, and the restricted list holds no cards.

What is the difference between banned, restricted and a banned pair?

A banned card cannot be included in a deck at all. A restricted card can be included up to a set number of copies. A banned pair means each card is legal on its own but the two cannot appear in the same deck. The restricted list is currently empty.

When does the Dracule Mihawk ban take effect?

On 12 October 2026. The addition was announced on 24 September 2026 and covers OP14-020, a green Leader, including its parallel printings. The official notice also announces a replacement Leader, P-163, to be distributed at future events.

Are alternate art and parallel cards banned too?

Yes. Each official notice states that parallel cards are included, so the restriction follows the card rather than the artwork. A banned card is banned in every printing of it.

Is there a restricted list in the One Piece Card Game?

Not at this date. The restricted category is empty, so no card is limited to fewer than the usual number of copies. The game currently uses banned cards and banned pairs only.

Sources

Sources and further reading

Bandai — the official One Piece Card Game site and its Banned/Restricted Card List pages, including the revision effective 12 October 2026 and each region’s list history.
CardSpicy — every Dracule Mihawk card, which shows how many printings of the character exist and which one the ban covers.
CardSpicy — the One Piece card index, where cards are listed by code so a banned code can be matched to the card in hand.
CardSpicy — block numbers on One Piece cards, for the database field most often confused with format legality.
CardSpicy — One Piece starter decks, for the product one of the banned cards, ST10-001, shipped in.

Restriction lists change, and they change on different dates in different regions. The lists on this page are stated as the official sites publish them at the date shown; before building a deck, read the official page for the region your event is played in. Prices are not quoted on this page: 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.

Can You Play Simplified Chinese One Piece Cards in Tournaments?

Quick answer

A card’s language does not by itself make it legal or illegal. What decides is the event’s own rules, and those are set region by region rather than once for the game. So the question splits in two: whether a Simplified Chinese printing is legal as a card, and whether it is admissible at the event you are entering. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than tournament entries, and the honest answer here is a procedure rather than a verdict.

A card does not have a nationality. A tournament does.

This is one of the few questions in the game where a general answer is worse than no answer, because the rules that matter are attached to the event rather than to the game. A player who reads a global summary and turns up at a regional event with the wrong printing has learned the summary, not the rule.

Two separate questions

Question	What answers it
Is this card legal in the format?	The format’s card pool — rotation, block and the banned list
Is this printing admissible at this event?	The event’s own rules on language and on products

Both have to be cleared, and they are cleared against different documents. A card can be entirely legal in the format and still inadmissible at a particular event because of how it was printed, or admissible as a printing and illegal because of a ban. The two checks do not substitute for each other.

Why language rules exist at all

Language restrictions in a trading card game are usually about the table rather than about the printing press. Three reasons recur.

Reason	What it protects
Verifiability at the table	An opponent and a judge need to be able to read a card without a translation aid
Distribution regions	A product line is sold in a region, and events in that region are built around what is sold there
Organiser discretion	Casual and store-level events are often more permissive than a championship

The practical effect is that looseness is common at one end of the scale and strictness at the other. A local event and a continental final can apply genuinely different rules to the same card, and that is a property of the event rather than an inconsistency to be resolved.

What the Simplified Chinese product is

The Simplified Chinese line is a full product line rather than a reprint programme. It has its own sets, its own release schedule and its own card codes, and the site indexes it separately because a simplified Chinese card is not simply an English card with different text.

Property	What it means for a player
Its own releases	Not every card is available in this language at the same time as it is elsewhere
Its own codes	A card can be read by code, and the code’s product may be one that only exists in this line
Its own event structure	Events held in the region where this line is distributed are the ones most likely to admit it

The last row is the practical heart of the question. Where a printing is sold is the best available predictor of where it is admissible, and it is still only a predictor rather than the rule.

What to check before entering

Find the event document rather than a summary. Rules on admissible languages are usually stated in the tournament rules for that event, not on a general product page.
Check the format separately. Rotation and the banned list apply to the card regardless of the language it is printed in.
Check the level of the event. A store-level event and a championship final are not governed identically.
Ask the organiser where the document is silent, and get the answer before the day rather than at the table.
Treat any published summary, including this page, as a starting point for the check rather than as the check itself.

What we are not claiming

Two things are worth stating plainly, because they are the reason this page is written as a procedure.

First, published summaries of admissible languages differ from one another, and they differ because the underlying rule is regional. Where two sources disagree, the disagreement is usually about which region is being described rather than about what the rule is.

Second, a rule can change with a season. Anything that was true about admissible languages at a past event should be treated as a dated statement rather than as a standing fact, and the same applies to this page.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use Simplified Chinese One Piece cards in a tournament?

It depends on the event. A card’s language does not by itself make it legal or illegal; the event’s rules do, and those rules are set region by region and can differ between a store-level event and a championship. Check the event document for the event you are entering.

Are simplified Chinese One Piece cards a different game?

No. They are a full product line of the same game, with their own sets, release schedule and card codes. A simplified Chinese card is not an English card with different text printed on it, which is why the site indexes the line separately.

Is the language rule the same everywhere?

No, and that is why the question is best answered per event. Published summaries of admissible languages differ from one another because they are describing different regions rather than disagreeing about a single worldwide rule.

Does the banned list apply to simplified Chinese cards too?

Yes. A ban names a card, and it applies to every printing of it. Language and legality in the format are separate checks, and both have to be cleared before a deck is usable at an event.

Who should I ask if the rules are unclear?

The organiser of the specific event. Where a document does not address language, the organiser’s ruling is what applies at that event, and it is worth asking before the day rather than at the table.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official tournament rules, which state the requirements an event applies to a deck, including any requirement relating to the printing of a card.
Bandai, official product pages for the Simplified Chinese line, which describe it as its own product line with its own releases.
Community tournament discussion, used as evidence that published summaries of admissible languages differ by region rather than agreeing on a single worldwide rule.
Scope note: this page sets out how to check the question rather than answering it for a specific event. It does not quote prices, and it states explicitly where published sources disagree.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

What a One Piece “Master Set” Actually Means

Quick answer

A One Piece “master set” has no definition until you say which level you mean, because the official card database does not count the way a checklist does. It records every alternate treatment of a card as its own entry, so one card with four artworks is four entries, and one printing of a card inside a reprint product is another. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than bulk lots, so this page defines the four things people mean by the phrase and what each one actually requires.

“Collect them all” is not a goal until you say all of what.

The reason the phrase needs unpacking is that the same words describe efforts with completely different scales. Collecting every base card in a set is a bounded task. Collecting every printing of every card in that set is a much larger one, because art treatments and reprint printings multiply the count without adding a single new card. Deciding which of those you are doing is the whole decision.

The four things people call a master set

Definition	What it means	Relative scale
Base set complete	Every distinct card in the set at its standard printing	The smallest and the most commonly intended
Set complete with treatments	Every base card plus every alternate art treatment of it	Substantially larger, because treatments multiply the count
Product complete	Everything the product contains, including reprint printings of cards first issued elsewhere	Larger again, and harder to bound because reprints are shared across products
One card, every printing	Every printing of a single card across sets and reprint products	Small in count and narrow in scope, and the definition where reprints matter most

The four are not a ladder in prestige; they are four different hobbies that happen to share a name. The one most people mean when they use the phrase without qualifying it is the first, and the one that most often surprises people is the second.

How the official record counts

The database the game publishes is structured around entries rather than around cards, and three rules explain almost all of the counting.

Rule	Consequence
A card is recorded once per printing	A card issued in two products appears twice
Alternate art is a separate entry	One card with several artworks is several entries
Reward and prize cards are full entries	Cards that were never in a booster are counted alongside those that were

This is why a count of “entries” and a count of “cards” are different numbers, and why the difference is large rather than marginal. Any statement about how many cards exist is really a statement about which of those two numbers the speaker is using.

The suffix system

The treatments are marked by a suffix attached to the card number, which is how the database keeps one card and its variants distinct without giving them unrelated codes.

Element	What it identifies
The set prefix	Which product the printing came from
The card number	Which card it is
The suffix	Which treatment of that card it is

Two consequences follow, and both matter for a master set. First, a suffix is not a rarity and not a grade; it marks a treatment, so it is possible to have a common card with several treatments. Second, the suffix does not distinguish a card that has been reprinted inside a reprint product, because a reprint keeps the original number. A reprint is identified by its product and by marks on the card rather than by its code.

What this means in practice

Say which of the four definitions you mean before starting, because the target changes the count by multiples.
Count in entries rather than in cards, and check the count against the database rather than against a checklist printed by someone else.
Decide in advance how you will treat reprint printings, because they add to a product-complete set and not to a base set.
Decide in advance whether reward cards count. They are entries in the record and they were never obtainable from product.
Treat a completed base set as a finished thing rather than as an incomplete master set. Both are legitimate stopping points.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a master set in the One Piece Card Game?

There is no single definition. The phrase is used for at least four different goals, from every base card in a set to every printing of every card including alternate treatments and reprints. The first step is deciding which one you mean.

Why do the card database totals not match what I count in a set?

Because the database records entries rather than cards. A card is counted once per printing, alternate artworks are separate entries, and reward cards are entries too, so the number of entries runs well ahead of the number of distinct cards.

Do alternate art cards count towards a master set?

They do in the second and third definitions above and not in the first. An alternate art is a different treatment of the same card, and the database records it as its own entry, which is why it has to be counted deliberately rather than assumed.

Does a reprint count as part of the set it was originally printed in?

No. A reprint keeps the original card number and belongs to the reprint product, so it adds to a product-complete collection rather than to the original set. Its product and its corner marks identify it.

Are prize cards part of a master set?

That depends on the definition you chose. Prize cards appear as full entries in the official record and were never obtainable from booster product, so most people running a set-based collection exclude them explicitly rather than by accident.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official card database — the entry structure that records a card once per printing and treats alternate artworks as separate entries.
Bandai, official product pages for the reprint line, which is the source of the rule that a reprinted card keeps its original code.
Community checklists and collector discussion, used as evidence that the phrase is used for several different goals rather than as a definition.
Scope note: this page defines terms and counting rules. It does not quote prices and does not recommend which definition to pursue.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

Booster Boxes or Singles? How One Piece Card Value Distributes

Quick answer

A booster box and a single card are not two ways of buying the same thing at different prices. A box is a fixed number of chances drawn from a set whose value is concentrated in a small number of positions; a single is the card itself. Because that concentration is steep — a handful of positions hold most of a set’s value — opening product to reach one specific card costs more on average than buying it, and the rest of the box is the part you paid for. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than sealed product, so this page is about the shape of the comparison rather than about which is currently cheaper.

A box is a distribution. You are not buying the card; you are buying the odds and the rest of the box with it.

The reason this is worth spelling out is that the two purchases feel similar at the moment of deciding. Both are a card purchase, both have a price, and both are usually made in the same shop. They differ in what is being transferred: one transfers a specific object, the other transfers a chance and a pile of cards you did not select.

The shape of a set

A set is built in tiers, and the tiers are not evenly populated.

Tier	Population	Where the value sits
Common and uncommon	Most of the cards in the box	The lowest end, and the bulk of what you open
Rare and above	A minority of the cards	The middle of the set’s value
Upper treatments	A few positions per set	The top, and where the set’s headline cards are

The consequence is arithmetic rather than opinion. If a small number of positions account for most of the value, then most of what it is possible to open is worth very little, and the positions that matter are scarce by construction.

Why concentration happens

Three mechanisms push value upwards within a set, and they reinforce each other.

Mechanism	Effect
Rarity tiers	A card printed in a small number of slots is harder to open than one printed in many
Art treatments	An alternate artwork of a card is a separate, scarcer printing of it, and is usually the version people mean when they name the card
Character demand	Where a set’s headline characters sit is a decision made before printing, and it determines which tier most of the demand lands in

The result is a distribution with a long tail and a very short list of positions at the top. Any statement about what a set is “worth” without saying which tier is being discussed is describing the top of that distribution.

What a box actually gives you

What you receive	What you do not
A fixed number of cards from one set	Any particular card within that set
The full spread of the set’s common tiers	A predictable number of the top-tier positions
A way to learn the set by handling it	A deck, unless the set happens to support one
The experience of opening product	An efficient route to a card you already decided you want

Sealed product is a legitimate purchase, and it is worth naming the reason. If the goal is to open product, a box delivers that goal directly and completely. If the goal is a specific card, the box is an indirect route whose average cost includes every card you did not want.

The two purchases, side by side

Question	A booster box	A single card
What is decided by your choice?	The set, not the card	The card, and its printing
What arrives?	A fixed quantity from one set	The card you named
What is the variance?	High, and concentrated at the top	None, once the printing is confirmed
What else must be checked?	Whether the box is sealed as described	Which product the card came from

The last row in each column is where the specific risks live. On the sealed side, boxes are also counterfeited and resealed, so the packaging needs its own checks. On the single side, a card number does not identify which product a copy came from, so the printing has to be confirmed separately. Both of those are dealt with elsewhere on the site in more detail.

When sealed product does make sense

When opening is the point. If the box is the experience you want, it delivers exactly that.
When you are still learning the set. Handling a spread of a set is a fast way to learn its shape.
When bulk is useful to you. A deck built from leftovers is a real thing to do with the common tiers.
When the set is being held rather than opened. An unopened box is a different object from the cards inside it, and it is bought for different reasons.

What sealed product is not is a shortcut to one card. The comparison that matters is not which of the two is cheaper in general — prices move — but which of the two delivers the thing you actually decided you wanted.

Frequently asked questions

Is it better to buy a booster box or singles for the One Piece Card Game?

It depends what you want. A box is the right purchase if opening product is the goal, because it delivers a fixed quantity from one set. If you want one specific card, a single delivers it directly, while a box delivers a chance at it plus the rest of the box.

Why does a booster box so rarely contain the card you wanted?

Because value and scarcity inside a set are concentrated in a small number of positions. Most of the cards in a box come from the common tiers, and the positions people chase are the scarcest ones by design, so a box is a distribution rather than a delivery of a particular card.

Is a booster box worth it if I plan to sell what I do not need?

Selling the leftover cards is a way to offset an amount you have already spent, and it does not change the structure of the purchase: you still paid for a whole box to obtain a chance at particular cards. The leftovers are usually the low-value tiers.

Do alternate art cards change the comparison?

They sharpen it. An alternate artwork is a separate and scarcer printing of a card, so it is usually the version people mean when they name it, and it is correspondingly harder to open. Buying the specific version as a single removes that variance.

How do I check that a sealed box has not been resealed?

Look at the shrink wrap for looseness or hand-made sealing, check the packaging print quality, and treat a price far below the going rate as a signal rather than as a bargain. The same caution applies to a box sold as unopened but not stored well.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official product pages, which state what a set contains and how the rarity tiers are structured.
Third-party set breakdowns and community box-opening records, used for the observation that value within a set concentrates in a small number of positions.
Community guidance on counterfeit and resealed sealed product, used for the packaging checks referred to here.
Scope note: this page compares two kinds of purchase by structure. It does not quote prices, and it does not forecast which of the two will be cheaper at any future date.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

What It Costs to Start the One Piece Card Game

Quick answer

The One Piece Card Game has a low entry floor because a starter deck is a complete, legal deck out of the box — not a sampler. So the real question is not what the game costs but which of three routes you take, because each one buys something different: a starter deck buys a playable deck, singles buy exactly the cards you asked for, and sealed product buys a chance at cards you did not choose. CardSpicy sells graded cards rather than deck-legal singles, so this page sets out what each route actually buys rather than what it costs.

There is a version of this hobby that starts with one box and no plan. There is a cheaper one that starts with one deck.

Prices move, and this page does not quote them. What does not move is the structure of the decision: a deck has a fixed shape, a set has a fixed shape, and the three routes sit at different points relative to both. Understanding the shape is the part that transfers.

The fixed shape of a deck

Before any spending decision, the deck itself sets a target.

Element	What it means for a new player
One Leader	Chosen before the rest of the deck and never shuffled in, so it decides the deck’s colour and its plan
A 50 card deck	A fixed size, so the deck is finished rather than open-ended
A copy limit	A maximum number of copies of any one card, counting every artwork and printing towards the same total
A colour rule	Cards in the deck match the Leader’s colour, which is why the Leader choice constrains everything after it

Two consequences follow for a beginner. A deck has a defined endpoint, so the money question is bounded. And the copy limit means an alternate artwork counts against the same allowance as the standard printing, so the expensive version of a card buys nothing in play that the cheap version does not.

Route one: a starter deck

A starter deck is the only route that produces a legal deck in a single purchase. It is built around one Leader, comes with the cards to support it, and is designed to be played without modification.

What it gives you	What it does not
A complete deck you can sit down with	A competitive deck for the current format
A fixed Leader and a coherent colour identity	Any choice in what is inside
A cheap way to learn the rules at the table	Cards that are individually sought after

The honest limitation is competitive. Starter decks are legal and playable and generally not optimised, so the upgrade path runs through singles rather than through more sealed product.

Route two: singles

Buying singles is the route where the money goes where you point it. You decide which cards the deck needs, and you buy those cards.

Advantage	Trade-off
The deck is built to a plan rather than assembled from leftovers	Requires knowing what the plan is
No duplicates you do not need	Shipping and handling can exceed the card on a small order
The version of a card can be chosen deliberately	Requires checking which printing you are buying

The last row is the one unique to this game. Because a reprint can carry the original card number, a single listed by its number alone does not tell you which product it came from, so a purchase needs the printing question answered as well as the card question.

Route three: sealed product

Sealed product is the route that buys a chance rather than a card, and it is worth being precise about what that means. A box contains a fixed number of cards drawn from a set whose value is concentrated in a small number of positions. Opening it is a distribution, not a purchase.

You are buying	You are not buying
A set number of chances at the set’s rare positions	Any specific card
The experience of opening product	A route to completing a deck on a budget
Bulk cards, which are useful for learning	The cards a competitive deck actually needs

If the goal is a specific card, buying sealed product to reach it costs more on average than buying the card, because the rest of the box is being paid for as well. That comparison is set out in more detail on our booster boxes page.

Where the cost actually concentrates

Across all three routes, spending in this game concentrates in three places rather than being spread evenly.

Concentration	Why
Competitive staples	Demand comes from play and is renewed while the card is legal in the format
Upper art treatments	Demand comes from collecting and is separate from play entirely
Cards obtainable only by attending events	Supply is not a function of how much product is opened

A new player only needs the first of those, and only for the specific deck being built. The other two are the parts of the hobby a beginner can safely ignore until the day they stop wanting to.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to start the One Piece Card Game?

The least costly complete start is a single starter deck, which is a legal deck on its own. After that the cost depends on which route you take: singles for a specific deck, or sealed product for the experience of opening it. This page sets out the structure rather than quoting prices.

Is it cheaper to buy a starter deck or to build a deck from singles?

A starter deck is cheaper than building a comparable deck from singles, because it is a fixed product built to be played as it comes. Building from singles costs more and produces a deck aimed at a specific plan.

Do I need the expensive printing of a card to play it?

No. The copy limit counts alternate artworks and printings towards the same total, so an alternate art buys nothing in play that the standard printing does not. The difference between the two is a collecting question.

Should a new player buy a booster box?

Not as a route to a specific deck. A box gives a set number of chances at a set whose value is concentrated in a few positions, so a deck built from one is assembled from leftovers. A starter deck plus a few singles is a more direct path.

Does buying sealed product guarantee anything for a deck?

It gives a fixed number of cards from one set, and no card in particular. If a deck needs a specific card, sealed product is the slower and less direct route to it.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official rules, which set the deck size, the Leader requirement and the copy limit.
Bandai, official product pages, which describe what a starter deck contains and how sealed product is structured.
Community beginner guides, used as evidence for how the three routes are normally presented to new players.
Scope note: this page is deliberately structural. It does not quote prices, and the comparison between routes is a comparison of what each one buys rather than of what each one costs.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

Light, Humidity and Long-Term Storage for One Piece Cards

Quick answer

Almost everything that damages a stored card is one of three environmental variables and one physical mistake. The variables are light, humidity and temperature; the mistake is putting a card in a material that reacts with it over years. A One Piece card is the same size and the same construction as any other mainstream trading card, so the storage rules are not specific to the game — they are specific to paper, ink and plastic. CardSpicy sells graded cards, so this page is about the conditions a graded or ungraded card should sit in rather than about the shelf it sits on.

Nothing in a card case has ever protected a card from a damp wall.

The reason long-term storage is worth thinking about at all is that the failure is slow and invisible. A card does not fade in a week. It fades across years of indirect daylight, a little at a time, in a way no one notices because there is no before-and-after to compare. The same is true of a damp environment. Both are much cheaper to prevent than to reverse, and neither can be reversed once it has happened.

Light

Ultraviolet light is the single most common cause of a card losing colour, and the two most damaging sources are the two people usually consider pleasant.

Source	Effect on a stored card
Direct sunlight	The strongest and fastest fading, and the most avoidable
Indirect daylight through a window	Slower, cumulative, and the reason a shelf facing a window is a poor choice
Fluorescent and some LED lighting	A lesser contribution that adds up over years of continuous exposure
Ultraviolet-resistant holder or display case	Reduces transmission rather than eliminating it

Two practical rules follow. Keep cards out of direct sun entirely, and treat an ultraviolet-resistant holder as a reduction rather than as a shield. A card behind glass in a bright room is still being exposed, just more slowly.

Humidity

Humidity is the variable that turns a storage mistake into permanent damage. Paper takes on and releases moisture with the air around it, and both directions are a problem.

Condition	What happens
Sustained high humidity	Warping, and eventually mould, which stains and cannot be removed
Very low humidity	Paper can become brittle, and repeated flexing of a dry card risks cracking the surface
Repeated cycling between the two	Cards that keep absorbing and releasing moisture can curl and stay curled

The goal is not a specific reading so much as stability. A room that stays roughly the same all year is better for a collection than a room that is ideal in summer and wrong in winter. Basements and attics are the two rooms that fail this test most often, and they fail in opposite directions.

Temperature

Temperature works the same way as humidity: the level matters less than the swings. A collection stored in a room that is comfortable for people is, in general, stored adequately. The problems come from extremes and from rapid change.

Heat accelerates every chemical process in the card, including the ones that fade ink and degrade adhesives on any tape or label nearby. Cold is less directly damaging to paper and more damaging through condensation, which happens when a cold object is moved into a warm, humid room. The visible symptom is a card that looks fine and has absorbed water it did not need to.

The physical layer: materials

Environment is half the problem and material is the other half.

Item	Why it matters
Acid-free inner sleeve	Sleeves that are not acid-free can discolour a card over years
Rigid outer holder	Takes the mechanical damage so the card does not have to
Binder pages	Should hold the sleeved card without pressing on the surface
Boxes and cases	Useful for organisation and for keeping light off, provided they are not themselves off-gassing

The two pieces that do the work are a soft inner sleeve and a rigid outer holder, and both are made to the standard card dimensions rather than to a brand. For graded cards, a holder is the outer layer already, and what it still lacks is ultraviolet protection and an outer sleeve to keep the plastic from scuffing.

A layout that covers most of it

Store away from windows, and out of any room that is noticeably damp or noticeably hot.
Sleeve every card, and give anything worth more than the sleeve a rigid holder.
Keep the collection in one place rather than scattered, so conditions can be checked in one place.
Check twice a year for warping, and check for any sign of moisture before the season changes.
Leave graded cards in their holders and sleeve the holders, rather than opening anything.

Frequently asked questions

What is the biggest risk to a stored One Piece card?

Light and humidity between them account for most avoidable damage. Light fades ink slowly and invisibly, and sustained humidity warps card stock and can lead to mould that stains permanently. Temperature matters mainly through extremes and rapid changes.

Do graded cards need any storage care?

Yes. A holder protects against handling and bending and does not filter ultraviolet light or keep moisture out. A stored slab should still be kept out of direct sun and in a stable room, and an outer sleeve will keep the holder from scuffing.

Are binders or boxes better for long-term storage?

Both work when the binder pages hold sleeved cards without pressing on them and the box is made of a material that does not react with paper. The choice is about how often you want to look at the collection, not about which one protects better.

Can a faded card be restored?

No. Fading is a change in the ink and cannot be reversed, which is why the practical approach is prevention. The same applies to staining from moisture.

Is a sealed box a safe place to store cards?

It protects against light and handling, which is useful, and it does not control humidity or temperature. A sealed box in a damp room still holds damp cards, and opening it later does not undo the exposure.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official product information, used as the reference for card dimensions and construction.
Archival storage guidance published for paper collectibles, which is the source of the light, humidity and temperature principles set out here.
Grading company public information on holder care and on what a holder does and does not protect against.
Scope note: this page describes storage conditions and materials. It does not quote prices and does not describe any cleaning or restoration method.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

OP-16 The Time of Battle: The Set, Explained

Quick answer

OP-16 THE TIME OF BATTLE is the sixteenth numbered booster in the One Piece Card Game, released in English on 12 June 2026, between OP15-EB04 ADVENTURE ON KAMI’S ISLAND in April 2026 and OP-17 in August 2026. Bandai’s card database lists six Leaders in the set and two cards at Secret Rare, and three of the set’s cards carry a block value of X which the database does not explain. CardSpicy indexes One Piece cards by code and by set, so this page collects what can be counted about OP-16 rather than what has been said about it.

A set is easier to read as a block of database rows than as a run of pack openings.

Sets are usually introduced by their theme and their pull rates, and both are hard to verify. What is easy to verify is the shape a set takes in the card database: how many Leaders it holds, which rarities it uses, where it sits in the release order, and which of its cards behave unusually. That shape is what this page describes.

Where OP-16 sits in the release order

The game has shipped seventeen booster products since December 2022, and their order is not strictly numerical. Two of them carry joined codes, which is how Bandai lists them in the database.

Code	Released (English)	Name
OP-12	August 22, 2025	LEGACY OF THE MASTER
OP-13	November 7, 2025	CARRYING ON HIS WILL
OP14-EB04	January 16, 2026	THE AZURE SEA’S SEVEN
OP15-EB04	April 3, 2026	ADVENTURE ON KAMI’S ISLAND
OP-16	June 12, 2026	THE TIME OF BATTLE
OP-17	August 28, 2026	THE WORLD’S STRONGEST WARRIORS

Reading down the codes gives the wrong order twice. OP14-EB04 and OP15-EB04 are booster entries carrying a compound label, so a list sorted by release date does not run in strict numerical sequence. OP-16 is straightforward by comparison: it is the sixteenth numbered booster, it arrived in June 2026, and nothing about its code needs unpicking.

The six Leaders in OP-16

Every game of One Piece begins with a Leader, and the Leader is the card that decides which colours a deck may use and how much life it defends. OP-16 contains six of them.

Card	Leader	Colour	Life
`OP16-001`	Portgas.D.Ace	Red	5
`OP16-022`	Monkey.D.Luffy	Green / Blue	4
`OP16-041`	Buggy	Blue	5
`OP16-060`	Sengoku	Purple	5
`OP16-079`	Yamato	Black	5
`OP16-080`	Marshall.D.Teach	Black / Yellow	4

Two of the six are two-colour Leaders, which is the smaller group across the game as a whole. The two-colour ones also carry four life rather than five, which is the standard trade made for the wider card pool a second colour opens.

The codes are worth reading as a group. A set’s Leaders occupy a reserved band at the start of its numbering, so a Leader code is a compact way for a seller, a buyer and a tournament judge to agree on which card is meant without describing the artwork.

The two Secret Rare cards

The database lists two OP-16 cards at Secret Rare, the rarity that sits above Super Rare in this game.

Card	Character	Colour	Cost	Power
`OP16-118`	Portgas.D.Ace	Red	5	6000
`OP16-119`	Marshall.D.Teach	Yellow	8	10000

Both also carry a parallel treatment, filed as a separate database entry with a suffix. That is the general rule in this game and the reason a set’s card count is so easy to misread: one card can occupy several rows. OP-16 illustrates it neatly, because the same base Secret Rare appears more than once in the list while the set still contains two of them.

The three OP-16 cards that carry block X

Every card in Bandai’s database carries a block value, and across the 2,785 cards in the game six values appear: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and X. Eight cards carry X, and three of those eight are from OP-16.

Card	Name	Rarity
`OP16-063`	Kuzan	R
`OP16-065`	Sakazuki	SR
`OP16-073`	Borsalino	R

The block field has one property that makes it interesting and one limitation that makes it frustrating. It is recorded for every card, so it can be counted exactly; it is not printed anywhere on the card, so it cannot be read off a photograph; and the database does not say what it governs. We report the three cards and the value they carry, and stop there. A claim that X means a specific rule would be a claim from outside the card data.

What the set is about

Two descriptions circulate. One places OP-16 in the Paramount War storyline and names its sought-after cards as a Secret Rare Ace, a Secret Rare Blackbeard and a Treasure Rare Vista. The other attaches the set to the name it is sold under, THE TIME OF BATTLE, and groups its Manga-treated cards around Sakazuki and Kuzan. Both are third-party readings of the same product, and they do not exclude each other: a set can be themed on one arc and still be discussed through whichever of its cards is most wanted that month.

What we can verify ourselves is narrower and more useful. The set contains six Leaders, two Secret Rares, and a body of Character cards that includes Portgas.D.Ace, Marshall.D.Teach, Edward.Newgate, Boa Hancock, Buggy and Yamato among others. Which of them is the most wanted card is a question about a market rather than about a set, and it changes faster than a set does.

How many cards are in OP-16

Here a page about a set has to be careful. Retail listings describe OP-16 as containing 126 cards plus 1, and that figure is widely repeated. Bandai has not published a card count for the set on its product page in a form we can verify, and the number of rows in the card database is larger than the number of cards, because treatments are filed separately.

So this page does not print a total for OP-16. It prints the parts that can be counted — six Leaders, two Secret Rares, three block X cards — and leaves the size of the set to the source that owns the number.

Frequently asked questions

When was OP-16 released?

OP-16 THE TIME OF BATTLE was released in English on 12 June 2026. It is the sixteenth numbered booster in the game, arriving after OP15-EB04 in April 2026 and before OP-17 in August 2026.

How many Leaders are in OP-16?

Six: OP16-001 Portgas.D.Ace, OP16-022 Monkey.D.Luffy, OP16-041 Buggy, OP16-060 Sengoku, OP16-079 Yamato and OP16-080 Marshall.D.Teach. Two of the six are two-colour Leaders and carry four life instead of five.

How many cards are in OP-16?

We do not print a total for OP-16, because the widely repeated figure of 126 plus 1 is a retail listing rather than a published official count, and the card database holds more rows than it holds cards.

What does block X mean on an OP-16 card?

Three OP-16 cards carry it: OP16-063 Kuzan, OP16-065 Sakazuki and OP16-073 Borsalino. The database does not explain what the block field governs, so we report the value and claim no rule for it.

Does OP-16 have a Manga Rare?

Third-party coverage groups Manga-treated OP-16 cards around Sakazuki and Kuzan. Manga Rare is a community name; the official treatment name is Comic Parallel, and the card database records the treatment rather than the nickname.

Sources

Sources and further reading

Bandai — the official One Piece Card Game product list and card database for the English edition, the source of every code, date, rarity and colour on this page.
CardSpicy — every One Piece set in order, which lists each product with its English release date.
CardSpicy — the One Piece card index, where OP-16 cards are listed by code.
CardSpicy — block numbers on One Piece cards, for the field behind the three X values above.
CardSpicy — alternate art treatments on One Piece cards, for why one card can occupy several database rows.

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.

How to Tell a Real One Piece Card from a Counterfeit

Quick answer

Counterfeiting a trading card used to mean copying the card. It now means copying the holder as well, so a check of a One Piece card has to answer two questions instead of one: is the card real, and is the thing around it real? For the card itself there are three physical checks that a reproduction struggles to pass at the same time — print, texture and light. CardSpicy sells graded cards and reads every card in hand before it goes out, because the alternative is taking a listing’s word for it.

A forgery has to pass three checks at once. A genuine card passes them without being asked.

The reason a counterfeit card is detectable at all is not that copying is difficult. It is that the original was made with industrial printing equipment and a forgery usually is not, so the differences show up in the details that small-scale printing cannot reproduce consistently: how ink sits on the surface, how the stock behaves under a thumb, and how much light passes through the paper. None of the three is a single decisive test. Together they are difficult to defeat at once.

Check one: print

The first check is the one most people already do, and it is the one most worth slowing down.

What to look at	On a genuine card	Common on a forgery
Text edges	Crisp, with clean letterforms at small sizes	Soft or slightly blurred, especially in fine type
Rarity symbol and codes	Sharp and evenly inked	Muddy, or inked more heavily than the surrounding art
Colour of the frame	Even across the card	Slightly shifted or blotchy in flat areas
Registration	Layers line up	Visible offset between the borders and the art

The safest version of this check is comparative. Put the card beside a card you are certain of. Forgery is easier to spot as a difference between two cards than as a property of one, because the eye is far better at comparison than at absolute judgement.

Check two: texture

The second check is the one a photograph cannot carry, and it is the reason a card has to be seen in hand.

Test	Genuine	Forgery
Surface	A faint, even texture across the print	Slick, glassy, or uniformly matte
Stock and stiffness	Snaps back when flexed gently	Softer, or unusually stiff and brittle
Edges	Cleanly cut and consistent	Fuzzy, or with a visible edge of a printed layer

A forged card frequently feels like a photograph of a card rather than a card. That impression is difficult to describe in text and easy to recognise in hand, which is why buying from an image alone carries a risk that no amount of careful reading removes.

Check three: light

The third check is the one that catches cards which pass the first two. Held to a bright light, a genuine card transmits a characteristic amount and pattern of light, because the stock and the printed layers are consistent across the surface.

What you are looking for	What it suggests
Even transmission across the card	Consistent stock and print
Patches that block light unevenly	A printed layer sitting on a different sheet
Noticeably more or less light than a known card	A different stock

As with the print check, the reliable version is side by side. Hold the suspect card against a card you trust, over the same light source, and compare rather than judge in isolation.

The holder is a separate question

A genuine card inside a forged holder is a real category, and it is common enough to be treated as its own check rather than as a detail. A holder has its own construction, its own physical marks and its own internal record, and none of those follows from the card being genuine.

The reverse is also true: a counterfeit card can be sent for grading and will not come back, but a counterfeit card inside a counterfeit holder can look convincing at a glance. The two checks have to be done independently, and the holder check is set out in full on our slab page.

What a forgery finds hard to copy

Consistency — a genuine run is uniform; a forgery tends to vary from copy to copy, so two suspect cards that differ from each other are informative.
Small type — fine letterforms at sizes that a consumer printer cannot hold.
The interaction of all three checks — a forgery is often built to pass the check its maker expected, and fails a different one.

Frequently asked questions

What is the quickest way to check if a One Piece card is fake?

Compare it against a card you are certain of. Check the print for crisp edges and even colour, feel the surface and stiffness, then hold both cards over a bright light. Doing the three together is far more reliable than any one of them alone.

Can a fake One Piece card pass a light test?

Some can pass one check while failing another, which is why the checks are used together. A card that transmits light evenly but feels slick and prints soft is still worth treating with suspicion.

Does a graded holder prove a card is genuine?

Not on its own. Counterfeit holders exist and can contain either a genuine card or a copy, so the holder has to be checked separately from the card. Our slab page sets out how to read a holder yourself.

Are counterfeit One Piece cards common?

Counterfeiting follows demand, and the One Piece Card Game has both collectible demand and organised play demand. The practical posture is not to assume a card is fake but to run the three checks on anything bought outside a trusted source.

Does buying sealed product remove the risk?

It removes the risk of a single card being a forgery and replaces it with a different one, because sealed boxes are also counterfeited and resealed. The checks move from the card to the packaging rather than disappearing.

Sources

Sources and scope

Bandai, One Piece Card Game official product and card pages, used as the reference for what a genuine card’s print and structure look like.
Grading company public guidance on holder construction, used for the holder check rather than the card check.
Community authentication write-ups and card shop guides, which describe the print, texture and light checks and are the source of the comparative method used here.
Scope note: this page describes physical checks a buyer can run. It does not claim that any method is decisive on its own, and it does not quote prices.

Prices quoted are secondary-market observations at the date cited and move quickly; nothing here is a valuation or an investment recommendation.

Category: One Piece

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The six Leaders

Above Super Rare

The full checklist

Frequently asked questions

How many cards are in OP-16?

When was OP-16 released?

How many Leaders does OP-16 have?

Which OP-16 cards sit above Super Rare?

Does this page list prices?

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Does rotation mean my card is worthless?

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Do all regions rotate at the same time?

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How many cards are banned in the One Piece Card Game?

What is the difference between banned, restricted and a banned pair?

When does the Dracule Mihawk ban take effect?

Are alternate art and parallel cards banned too?

Is there a restricted list in the One Piece Card Game?

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Can I use Simplified Chinese One Piece cards in a tournament?

Are simplified Chinese One Piece cards a different game?

Is the language rule the same everywhere?

Does the banned list apply to simplified Chinese cards too?

Who should I ask if the rules are unclear?

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Why do the card database totals not match what I count in a set?

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