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Bandai made One Piece cards so clean they belong in a museum - and you can’t buy a single one in a store. 🎳

The ONE PIECE Card Game × ROUND1 promo set: 10 original alt-arts of the Straw Hats, each doing a Round1 activity (bowling, billiards, arcade). No textures - and they STILL look unreal.

The catch? Promo-only. In Japan you order off the collab menu to get one; in the US it’s the first 9,000 reservations. Campaign just kicked off (Jul 18–Oct 17), so supply is thin.
Which is exactly why the secondary market is already unhinged - Luffy’s pushing $900+ raw and sealed pack lots are listed at $1,800+. Blink and it’s gone. 💀

[Andy Collectz @AndyCollectz]

Reminder: OPTCG x Round1 Promo Packs Phase 2 entries open in less than 1 hour!

When: 10am PT / 1pm ET ⌚️
https://t.co/wDctwPu89V

No direct link yet. Good luck everyone!

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@Bren_Sensei @BigBowlOChili Now you’ve got me wanting to crack my sealed s12a boxes just to check there’s not a stack of napkins inside 🤣🤣🤣

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A guy dropped ~$10,000 on a case of Japanese Vstar Universe boxes because the price was “too good to pass up.” 📦

Plot twist you already saw coming: he cracked them open and the pulls were... not it. Reweighed, resealed, gutted - pick your poison. His “deal of a lifetime” was a gut punch.

He went back to his proxy for a refund. Best case? They cover shipping and fees. The $10K? Gone. 💀

Reminder: Vstar Universe is one of the most scammed sets on Earth (it’s the Moonbreon set - of course it is). If the price looks unreal, it is. Buy sealed from people you trust, not the cheapest listing on the board.

[Max Long 🚀 @MaxLonged]

More 30th Anniversary leaks.

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@Bren_Sensei @BigBowlOChili For the record, I’ve got two sealed Vstar Universe boxes I’ve honestly never opened 😅 so much for “fake fan.”🙁

AR9 god pack is the chase, no argument - but the story was about resealed product, not the set.

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@MediaGiraffes Huge pull, congrats! 🤩
Just got mine back from grading, the artwork looks even crazier in a slab. 🏴‍☠️

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@BigBowlOChili You’re right on the set Moonbreon’s Evolving Skies (Eevee Heroes in JP), my bad 😵‍💫

Point still stands though: cheap sealed JP = scam bait. 🤑

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@Walrus_Moonboy Cry, delete my social media, and pretend I never knew what Pokémon was."😭😭😭

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Someone read that PSA and BGS slabs are "waterproof"... so he took his entire collection into the shower to test the theory. 🚿🧠

Bad news, king: slabs are NOT waterproof. They'll survive a stray splash, maybe. A full shower? You're gambling with grades.

The kicker? That's roughly $60K - $100K of cardboard getting rinsed like a bunch of dishes. 💀

There's no "after" video. Probably for the best. 🙏

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@ONEPIECE_tcg_EN Bandai cooked hard with these designs. 🤩
The secondary market prices for these are going to be insane. 🤑

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@framexin The classic 'selling shovels during a gold rush' playbook.
GTA 6 is going to be the biggest entertainment launch in history, and servicing the creators is where the real money is.

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⭐ Okay I'll say it: OP17 might be my most-wanted set since OP13. 🔥

This OP17-079 Luffy leader from every angle is criminal - the texture, the holo, all of it. 4th anniversary is about to cook.

[Official One Piece Card Game English Version @ONEPIECE_tcg_EN]

[4th Anniversary]
Hey One Piece Pirates!

More information about the 4th Anniversary will be revealed during the special program dropping on YouTube July 11 at 18:00 (CEST) / 9:00 (PDT)!

We still have plenty of exciting initiatives and surprises in store, so stay tuned and look forward to what's coming next!
Be sure to watch it here⇩
https://t.co/0oN51loydR

#ONEPIECE
#onepiececardgame

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@cipgerx Tech makes it pretty, but storyboards make it work. Storytelling and pacing will always be the real moat.

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@Rossst_03 Trying to describe a stormy ocean with a formula designed for a kiddie pool-the ultimate illusion of control.

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@Serenade808 ⭐ Every single time 😂 “Japan exclusive” really just means “on eBay by Friday at 3x”

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Bandai just announced a One Piece card so exclusive you’re not allowed to buy it. 🎰

Meet the Premium Card Collection - One Piece Day 2026: a Luffy card + a One Piece Day DON!! card mounted on a display stand, dropping in Japan on Aug 22, 2026.

The catch? It’s lottery-only. No shelves, no preorders - you enter Bandai’s official raffle and pray. Winning just earns you the right to pay retail. 🙏

If last year’s One Piece Day set is any hint, the aftermarket is about to get spicy. Lottery-locked + Japan-exclusive = scalper catnip. 🐟💸

[Andy Collectz @AndyCollectz]

English OPTCG Booster Box Market Update 📊

Current Market/Listings:
TCGP https://t.co/Y0YDAsWiok
eBay https://t.co/Hq6Vfms8jj

We'll soon have 22 different booster boxes #ad

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@OldTownJB This is a proper Zoro shrine 😤 ⚔️

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@jga1122 Only Japan at the moment, unfortunately.🙁
If they ever made an English version I’d grab it in a heartbeat.🤑

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The very first card PSA ever graded is also the hobby’s biggest crime scene. 🕵️

The 1909 T206 Honus Wagner - “The Card” - got slabbed PSA 8 back in 1991, the first grade the company ever handed out.
Plot twist: in 2013, dealer Bill Mastro admitted in federal court he’d trimmed the corners in the ‘80s to juice its value. And PSA’s own grader, Bill Hughes, later admitted he knew it was altered when he slabbed it.

So PSA’s grade #1, the one that launched a billion-dollar industry, was a shaved card everyone kinda knew about. 💀

It still sold for $2.8M anyway. Crime pays, apparently.

[lememe_james @LememeJames]

PSA 100

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The Straw Hats swapped swords for bowling balls. 🎳🏴‍☠️

First leaked look at the ROUND1 × One Piece promos - and they're free. 👀

Ten cards, the full crew, all sports-themed alt-arts. 🎱⚾ No boosters - US: first 9,000 to reserve a Round1 visit, JP: one per collab order. Drops July 18. 🍔🃏

Collector tip: "free" promos with tiny print windows are the ones that spike later. 📈 Near a Round1? Easy pickup.

📌 Full value breakdown when clean scans hit -bookmark this.

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Okay, real question: which one of these actually wins? 🤔

Four starters, fully mechanized, all lined up like it's a boss rush. 🤖 Charizard's got the wings, Blastoise brought artillery 💣, Pikachu's basically a live wire ⚡ - but that Greninja looks like it skips the fight and goes straight to the finisher. 🐸🔩

Drop your pick below. 👇

I'm taking Greninja and it's not close. 🔥

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When Mismagius fused with Rayquaza and attacked Ash, Dawn, and Brock