The world’s
strongest
warriors.
Inside One Piece Card Game OP-17 — Bandai’s 4th anniversary booster set, built around the Four Emperors and the Elbaf arc.
Strongest
Four years ago, Bandai relaunched the One Piece Card Game from the ground up, and it’s grown into one of the fastest-rising TCGs on the shelf. To mark the anniversary, the game’s 17th main booster set — OP-17: The World’s Strongest Warriors — is going all in on spectacle. The set leans into the Elbaf arc and the Four Emperors, the Yonko, pairing the franchise’s newest storyline with its most iconic power players.
Japan gets the set first on August 22, with a US pre-release starting August 21 and the wide English release landing August 28 — a six-day gap instead of the months-long wait English-speaking players are used to, and a sign Bandai is closing that distance for good going forward. Here’s what’s confirmed about the set so far.
A first-ever Manga Leader and Manga Rares
OP-17 introduces two card treatments the game has never used before: the first-ever Manga Leader and a run of Manga Rare cards, pulling artwork straight from Eiichiro Oda’s original panels instead of full-color anime-style illustration. It’s a stark, ink-heavy look that stands apart from every rarity that’s come before it in the game’s four-year run.
The Manga Rare treatment is going to the original Four Emperors — Shanks, Whitebeard, Kaido, and Big Mom — making those four cards some of the most anticipated pulls in the set before a single pack has been opened.
Nostalgic leaders, rebuilt for today’s game
OP-17 carries six Leaders total, and Bandai is bringing back some of the game’s earliest cover stars with reworked effects built for the current meta. Two are officially confirmed so far, with the rest still circulating as unconfirmed leaks.
A Super Alt-Art of Monkey D. Garp, and a Super Parallel of Luffy’s Leader card, have already been singled out as strong candidates to become the visual face of the set.
The Treasure Rare goes to Whitebeard
Sitting above Secret Rare, Treasure Rare is the single highest pull tier in the One Piece Card Game, and each set gets exactly one. OP-17’s has been confirmed as Edward Newgate (card OP17-040) — a 6-cost, 8000-power Black card with an on-play draw-one effect — and it’s expected to carry the highest secondary market value of anything in the set.
Giants, gods, and a straw hat in new armor
The set’s official promotional video centers on Luffy, Nami, and Loki, the Cursed Prince of Elbaf — tying OP-17 directly to the arc’s giants’ homeland setting. Luffy himself appears kitted out in giant-clan armor built for the Elbaf storyline, one of the more striking new character looks the game has featured to date.
What’s actually in the box
OP-17 lands with 131+4 card types — 135 unique cards in total — split across 6 Leaders, 45 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 26 Rares, 10 Super Rares, 2 Secret Rares, 6 Special cards, and that single Treasure Rare. Packs run six random cards each, priced at roughly $4.99 USD (¥240 in Japan), and pre-release events at local game stores kick off a week ahead of the full launch.