One Piece OP-17 Spoiler Season Is Live: Whitebeard and Luffy Lead, and Loki Is the First Chase Revealed

The 4th Anniversary Set Starts Showing Its Cards

Spoiler season has officially begun for OP-17: The World's Strongest Warriors, the One Piece Card Game's fourth-anniversary set — and the first set in the game's history to launch worldwide simultaneously on August 26, 2026, with no gap between the Japanese and English releases.

The set leans into the Elbaf arc of the manga, putting Giant Warriors alongside the Yonko-era heavyweights. Here is what is confirmed so far.

The confirmed leaders

• Edward Newgate (Red) — Whitebeard returns as a leader, always a market mover in this game.
• Monkey D. Luffy (Black) — a black Luffy leader, which has deckbuilders already theorycrafting.
• Four more leaders remain unrevealed. Shanks, Kaido, and Big Mom rumors are circulating, but none are official — treat them as guesses based on the Yonko theme.

The set breakdown

OP-17 lists 126+1 card types: 6 Leaders, 45 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 26 Rares, 10 Super Rares, 2 Secret Rares, 6 SP cards, 1 Treasure Rare, and 1 DON!! card. That Treasure Rare slot matters — it is the ultra-premium rarity above Secret Rare that debuted in Japan with OP-16, and aggregator checklists list exactly one for this set, though Bandai has not yet confirmed which card gets it.

Loki Is the First Chase Revealed

The first spoiled chase card is a reported Black Secret Rare Loki, the Elbaf prince from the current manga arc. First-appearance chase cards from anniversary sets have a strong track record in this game, and a character as new and as central as Loki checks every box speculators look for. Expect the usual pattern: aggressive presale pricing, a dip after launch supply hits, then a settle based on actual playability.

Why the Simultaneous Launch Changes Buying Strategy

For three years, the English market has lived downstream of Japan — collectors could watch Japanese singles prices for two-plus months before English product arrived. That information advantage is gone. With OP-17, English and Japanese markets price-discover together in real time, which means launch-window volatility on both sides. If you are a player, lock in your leader and staple needs early. If you are a collector, the anniversary branding, the Treasure Rare chase, and the first-ever global launch give this set a legitimate shot at being the most opened One Piece product of the year.

Preorders are already live at local game stores — and with OP-16 having sold through almost everywhere, allocation questions are worth asking your shop about now, not in August.