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How the One Piece Card Game began

Bandai's One Piece Card Game arrived in Japan in July 2022 and in English that December. It brought the art of Eiichiro Oda's manga and the anime to a fast game of Leaders, DON!! and Life, with a new booster about every three months since.

Who makes it

The One Piece Card Game is made and published by Bandai, the Japanese toy and game company behind several other card games based on anime. One Piece itself is the manga by Eiichiro Oda, published by Shueisha in Weekly Shōnen Jump since 1997, and adapted into the long-running anime by Toei Animation.

It is not the first One Piece card game. Bandai also made an earlier One Piece card game in the 2000s. The 2022 game is new and separate, with its own rules and cards.

Oda confirmed that the new game would use art from the manga itself, alongside scenes from the anime and the films.

From Romance Dawn to today

The game launched in Japan on 8 July 2022. The English version followed on 2 December 2022 with four starter decks, each built around one group from the story, and the first booster, Romance Dawn.

  1. The One Piece Card Game launches in Japan.
  2. The English launch: Romance Dawn and the first four starter decks.
  3. Starter Deck: Straw Hat Crew.
  4. Paramount War, the second booster, built around the war at Marineford.
  5. Awakening of the New Era.
  6. Memorial Collection, the first Extra Booster.
  7. One Piece Card the Best, the first Premium Booster, reprints favourite cards with new finishes.
  8. The Championship 2024 World Final is held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan.
  9. The Azure Sea's Seven, the first English booster to carry the Egghead Crisis cards.
  10. Block rotation begins in official Standard tournaments: block 1 cards leave, except those reprinted in The Best Vol. 2.
  11. The World's Strongest Warriors, the newest booster in English.

Kinds of release

Booster Packs (OP) are the main sets, about four a year. Extra Boosters (EB) are smaller themed collections, and Premium Boosters (PRB) reprint popular cards with special finishes. Starter Decks (ST) are ready-to-play decks, some called Ultra Decks or Starter Deck EX. Promotion cards come from events, magazines and other products.

Rare cards are often printed again as Parallel versions with alternate art, and the rarest are Special, Secret Rare, Treasure Rare and Manga Rare cards.

Tournaments and rotation

Bandai runs official events from store tournaments up to regional and national championships, ending in a World Final in Japan. The Championship 2024 World Final was held on 16 March 2025 at Makuhari Messe.

Every card carries a block number. From April 2026, Standard tournaments only allow recent blocks, so the oldest cards rotate out each year. Cards reprinted in The Best Vol. 2 stayed legal.

The game today

By late 2026 the English game has seventeen numbered boosters, three Extra Boosters, two Premium Boosters and more than thirty starter decks. In January 2026 cards were even given away at college basketball games, starting at Rutgers.

Every release is on this site's timeline, and every card can be opened from its set page.

Sources

  1. One Piece Card Game — Wikipedia — Bandai, the Japanese and English launch dates, the four starter decks, the earlier One Piece card game, Oda's confirmation of manga art, the college basketball giveaways.
  2. Championship 2024 World Final (official site) — Date and place of the World Final.
  3. Rotation to be introduced from April 2026 (SNKRDUNK) — Block rotation and the PRB-02 exception.
  4. One Piece TCG set list and release dates (OP Box Index) — English release dates of boosters, Extra and Premium Boosters.
  5. One Piece Card Game full product list (TrackaLacker) — English release dates of starter decks, checked against the list above.
  6. Punk Records — Card data from the official English card list.