The War Comes to the Table
The second One Piece booster went straight for the biggest battle in the story. Paramount War is built on the Marineford arc, where Whitebeard and his crew take on the Navy to rescue Portgas D. Ace, with Luffy breaking out of Impel Down to join them. Bandai released it in Japan on November 4, 2022, and in English on March 10, 2023, at $4.19 a pack. It also brought the color Black into the main boosters for the first time, after Black debuted in the Starter Deck Absolute Justice (ST-06), along with new two-color Leaders. If any rarity term below is new to you, our One Piece rarity guide walks through every tier.
Field | Details |
|---|---|
Release Date | March 10, 2023 (English); November 4, 2022 (Japan) |
Block | Block 1 (the Block Icon printed on every card in the set) |
Set Code | OP-02 |
Set Size | 121 card types: 8 Leaders, 45 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 26 Rares, 10 Super Rares, 2 Secret Rares (Bandai's count, which leaves out parallel versions) |
Set Type | Main booster set |
Franchise Tie-In | The Paramount War (Marineford): the Whitebeard Pirates, the Navy, and the Impel Down breakout |
Box Bonus | One of six bonus cards in every box, numbered 009b, 031b, 059b, 086b, 105b, and 108b (Bandai) |
Pack Contents | 24 packs per box (retailer listings); $4.19 MSRP per pack (Bandai) |
Format Legality | Extra Regulation (all cards except banned ones); in Standard, only three OP-02 card numbers remain legal (see Special Notes) |
Standard Rotation Date | Rotated out of Standard April 1, 2026, with the rest of Block 1 |
Collector Interest Grade | B (76.4/100), see breakdown below |
What Makes It Special
Paramount War is the set where One Piece leaned into its most emotional arc. Marineford is where Ace and Whitebeard fall, and the card list reads like the cast of that war: Whitebeard and Marco on one side, Garp, Smoker, and the three Admirals on the other, with Luffy, Ivankov, and the Impel Down escapees crashing in between. For readers who grew up on the manga, few arcs carry more weight.
It is also home to the game's second manga card. Romance Dawn introduced the format with Shanks; Paramount War followed with Portgas D. Ace, drawn in Oda's black-and-white panels. That single card still defines the set for collectors, and as the prices below show, nothing else in the set comes close to it.
New to This Set
Black. The new color plays with cost. Black cards lower your opponent's Characters' costs and then punish low-cost Characters. Smoker (OP02-093), the mono-Black Leader, can give an opponent's Character -1 cost each turn, and the Secret Rare Kuzan (OP02-121) cuts every opposing Character's cost by 5 on your turn and K.O.s one with a cost of 0 when he's played.
New two-color Leaders. Monkey.D.Garp (OP02-002) pairs Red with the new Black, and Sanji (OP02-026) pairs Blue with Green. Romance Dawn's two-color Leaders were all Red/Green, so this is where the color pairings started to open up.
A six-Life Leader. Edward Newgate (OP02-001) starts with 6 Life, more than any Leader in Romance Dawn, and at the end of each of your turns he moves your top Life card into your hand. More cards in hand, less Life to spare: it fits the character.
Box bonus cards. Every booster box carries one of six bonus cards, alternate-art versions of six cards from the set that carry a "b" after the card number. On TCGplayer they're listed as Box Toppers.
Top Chase Cards
Portgas.D.Ace (OP02-013) Manga Parallel — the set's crown. It's the Super Rare Ace reprinted in panels from Oda's manga, and it's the second manga card the game ever printed. TCGplayer showed no market price and no recent sale for it on November 14, 2026; its eight active listings had a listed median near $3,145, and some of those listings are graded or non-English copies, so check the details on any listing.
Sanji (OP02-026) Leader Parallel — the alternate-art Blue/Green Sanji Leader, which sets up to two of your DON!! cards active once per turn when you play a Character with no base effect from your hand. Market price near $123 on November 14, 2026.
Monkey.D.Garp (OP02-002) Leader Parallel — Luffy's grandfather in alternate art, the Red/Black Leader whose DON!! attachments shave cost off an opponent's Character on your turn. Market price near $113 on November 14, 2026.
Notable Secondary Pulls
Edward.Newgate (OP02-001) Leader Parallel — Whitebeard himself, the six-Life Red Leader at the center of the war. Around $99.
Smoker (OP02-093) Leader Parallel — the first mono-Black Leader in a main booster, in alternate art. Around $78.
Nami (OP02-036) Super Rare Parallel — a Green FILM-type Nami who digs three cards deep for another FILM card when she's played or attacks. The base version sits around $3; the parallel is around $66.
Monkey.D.Luffy (OP02-062) Super Rare Parallel — the Impel Down Luffy, a Blue six-cost Character who can bounce a Character and gain Double Attack. Around $59.
Two more worth knowing: the Boa Hancock box bonus card (OP02-059) sits around $29, and the Uta Secret Rare parallel (OP02-120) around $27.
All prices are TCGplayer market as of November 14, 2026, except the manga Ace, which had no market price that day. Prices link live to TCGplayer and update independently of this article. Some OP-02 cards have been reprinted in later products and are listed separately, so check the set name on any listing.
Pull Rates
Bandai has never published pull rates for any One Piece set. For Romance Dawn we could point to a community estimate built from Japanese box openings; for Paramount War we couldn't find opening data for the English print that we were able to check, so we're not printing a table. What is certain is the box bonus: Bandai states every box includes one of the six bonus cards. For how the rarity tiers stack, see our One Piece rarity guide.
How It Compares
On paper, Paramount War is a copy of Romance Dawn's structure: 8 Leaders, 45 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 26 Rares, 10 Super Rares, and 2 Secret Rares, 121 in all. The differences are in what it added. Black arrived as a fifth main-set color, the Leader colors branched past Red/Green, and boxes gained a guaranteed bonus card. The top end is even more lopsided than Romance Dawn's. On October 30, Romance Dawn's second-highest card, the Luffy Leader parallel, sat near $1,010; Paramount War's second-highest, the Sanji Leader parallel, sat near $123 on November 14, 2026. Almost all of this set's collector attention runs through one manga Ace.
Collector Interest Grade Breakdown
Factor | Weight | Score |
|---|---|---|
Community Reception | 30% | 82 |
Chase Card Desirability | 25% | 84 |
Competitive Relevance / Playability | 20% | 45 |
Artistic / Design Merit | 15% | 82 |
Franchise / Nostalgia Pull | 10% | 95 |
Total / Grade | 76.4 — B |
Franchise is the high mark. Marineford is among the most-discussed arcs in One Piece, and the set puts Whitebeard, Ace, Garp, and the Admirals front and center. Chase scores well on the strength of one card: the manga Ace is one of the most recognizable cards in the game, but the drop-off behind it is steep, which keeps Chase below Romance Dawn's 90. Reception is solid rather than legendary: as the second set, Paramount War arrived into a game that already had its audience, and it added a new color rather than a new game. Art is strong at the top, with the manga Ace and the Leader parallels, and plainer underneath. Competitive Relevance is low for the same reason as Romance Dawn: since April 1, 2026, the set lives in Extra Regulation, with three card numbers still legal in Standard.
Special Notes
Standard rotation. Bandai's Block Number System took effect on April 1, 2026, and Standard now allows only Block 2 and later. Paramount War is Block 1, so it plays in Extra Regulation, Bandai's format where every card is legal except banned ones. Three OP-02 card numbers stay Standard-legal per Bandai's block update list: Portgas.D.Ace (OP02-013), whose card number Bandai lists among Super Parallel card numbers that stay legal, and Curly.Dadan (OP02-005) and Gum-Gum Rain (OP02-068), which Bandai treats as Block 4 from April 1, 2026, through March 31, 2029.
The manga Ace on TCGplayer. Because the card trades rarely, TCGplayer had no market price for it on the date we checked, and its listings mix languages and graded copies. Read the listing title and photos before comparing prices.
Fun Facts / Trivia
"Paramount War" is the name the English translation of the manga gives the battle at Marineford. In Japan, where the set came out four months earlier, it carries the Japanese name for that same war.
The manga Ace and the regular Ace share card number OP02-013. When Ace enters play under a Whitebeard Pirates Leader, he gains Rush, so the card works best alongside the Whitebeard Leader from the same set.
Like Romance Dawn, the two Secret Rares, Uta and Kuzan, are numbered 120 and 121, past the set's 119 regular cards.
Scoring Methodology: The Collector Interest Grade for set overviews is calculated from five weighted factors — Community Reception (30%), Chase Card Desirability (25%), Competitive Relevance/Playability (20%), Artistic/Design Merit (15%), and Franchise/Nostalgia Pull (10%) — scored 0–100 based on documented facts and sourced critical/community reception, mapped to a letter grade. This grade reflects hobby and collecting interest only.
Pricing: Prices are TCGplayer market snapshots dated November 14, 2026; links update independently of this article.
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