The One Piece TCG Market in November 2026: Four Years In, Where the Money Went and What OP18 Changes

October 2026: a market that drifted down, except at the top

The headline is small and negative. The OP Compare Index, which adds up the TCGplayer market price of one copy of every priced English card and rebases it to 1,000 on 3 October, closed 4 November at 978: down 2.2% in a month, with most of the fall in the two weeks around the EB05 release. Underneath that, twenty of the twenty-two booster, extra and premium sets lost value, and the losses were not where you might expect.

Three patterns in that table, as of 4 November 2026:

• The biggest falls were in sets that are two or three releases old. OP02 Paramount War lost 12.8% of its master-set value, OP08 Two Legends 11.7%, OP17 The World's Strongest Warriors 9.8% and OP15 Adventure on Kami's Island 8.6%. OP17 is the most recent main set, and its fall is the ordinary post-launch settling: its top card, Rocks.D.Xebec OP17-118 Super Alternate Art, stayed at US$6,100 all month while the cards under it kept slipping.
• The sets that held or rose are the ones built from reprinted chase art. EB02 Anime 25th Collection gained 9.4% and Premium Booster Vol. 1 edged up 0.6%. Both are sets whose value is almost entirely SP and Manga prints of cards collectors already wanted, with no commons to drag the total down.
• Cards worth US$100 or more are concentrated in a handful of sets. Premium Booster Vol. 1 has 27 of them, EB02 23, OP13 and Premium Booster Vol. 2 17 each, OP17 15. OP01, the first set, has 12; OP03, OP04 and OP08 have three or four. A main set is worth, in round numbers, its top five cards.

EB05: the launch that went the other way

EB05 Extra Booster: One Piece Heroines Edition Vol. 2 released on 30 October, so the month includes a full launch week. Normally a set's chase cards list high during preorders and fall as product is opened; that is what OP17 did in August and what every main set has done. EB05 did the opposite at the top. Its ten most valuable cards added up to US$4,287 at TCGplayer market on release day and US$5,293 five days later, a 23% rise, while the median EB05 card went from US$0.81 to US$0.69 and the median cheapest US listing fell from US$0.93 to US$0.25.

In other words, the set split in two within a week: the Kentaro Yabuki and gold-stamped illustration cards found buyers faster than stores could restock them, and everything else became bulk. The same thing happened to EB03 Heroines Edition Vol. 1 in February, and it is the clearest sign of where collector money in this game is going: toward a small number of illustrator-signed, stamped or Manga-style prints, and away from the playable chase rares that drove OP01 to OP08. The most valuable EB05 cards today:

EB05 by TCGplayer market price, live

#	Card	Set · No.	TCGplayer market	Cheapest here
1	NamiKentaro Yabuki · Gold Stamped	EB05 · EB05-055	US$1,530	US$1,798
2	Nico RobinSuper Leader Alternate Art	EB05 · EB05-010	US$1,265	US$2,000
3	Boa HancockSP	EB05 · ST17-004	US$759.75	US$759.75
4	ShirahoshiManga	EB05 · EB05-014	US$557.53	US$560.00
5	NamiSP	EB05 · OP01-016	US$456.99	US$349.00
6	Nico RobinSP	EB05 · EB05-016	US$403.14	US$349.00
7	Charlotte PuddingSP	EB05 · OP17-109	US$331.95	US$315.00
8	Boa HancockHeroine Leader	EB05 · OP14-041	US$217.62	US$210.00

How the market got here: four years in three phases

2022 to 2023: the supply-shock years. OP01 to OP05 released into an English market that Bandai had not planned for. Boxes sold out on preorder, restocks took months, and the Manga and Parallel alternate arts of Shanks, Ace, Law and Zoro from those sets became the game's blue chips. They still are: the top cards of OP01, OP02, OP05 and OP06 are all four-figure Manga prints, and OP01 still has 12 cards over US$100 from a 156-card set.

2024 to 2025: print runs catch up, Premium Boosters reprint the chase. From OP06 onward product stayed on shelves, and the master-set value of a new main set stopped climbing after release. Premium Booster Vol. 1 (November 2024) and Vol. 2 (October 2025) reprinted the most wanted cards from earlier sets in new treatments, and the EB01 and EB02 extra boosters did the same with anime-art and 25th-anniversary prints. The effect shows in the table above: those four sets hold more US$100+ cards than any main set, and they are the only sets that gained value this month.

2026: bigger sets, SP and Gold, illustration chases. OP14 and OP15 shipped with their EB04 half-sets inside (211 and 206 cards), OP13 and OP17 introduced the Super Alternate Art tier that now holds the two most expensive cards from a main set (Luffy OP13-118 at US$7,500 and Rocks OP17-118 at US$6,100), and the Gold-stamped SP prints of Luffy OP05-119 and Teach OP09-093 pushed single cards past US$10,000. The Heroines extra boosters added a third kind of chase, the illustrator card, which is what EB05 just demonstrated.

What OP18 is likely to do

OP18 The Dominance of God releases on 20 November 2026, with release events from 13 November. Our OP18 chase cards post tracks the reveals. Based on the OP17 and EB05 cycles, this is the pattern to expect, not a target:

1. OP17 falls further in November. The set before the new one has lost the most value in each release month we can measure. OP17 is already down about 10% in October; its regular cards have nowhere to go, so the fall will come from its alternate arts repricing as attention moves.
2. OP18's preorder prices are its highest prices, except at the very top. Main-set rares and leaders will be under a dollar within days. The Super Alternate Art and Manga tier is the one place EB05's pattern may repeat, with prices rising for a week or two after release before stock catches up.
3. The Index keeps drifting down through December. A new set adds a few hundred priced cards at launch prices that then fall, and the anniversary period historically brings Premium Booster and promo supply. Expect the Index to lose a few more percent before it finds a floor in the new year, with the old-set Manga prints the part of the market least affected.

What would break the pattern: an OP18 leader that defines the format (the OP18 green Luffy and Saint Gunko builds are the candidates, covered in our OP18 green Luffy and Saint Gunko guides), or a short print of the kind the market has not seen since OP05.

We will update this post after OP18's first two weeks with the same tables. Until then the live versions are on the Index, the price movers and each set page.