OP-09 Guide: Emperors in the New World Box, Secret Rares and Super Parallels

Updated November 10, 2026

OP-09 (OP09) is the Japanese edition of the ONE PIECE CARD GAME booster set “New Emperor”, released August 31, 2024, with 129 unique cards plus 1 DON!! card, including 2 Secret Rares, 10 Special Cards and five Super Parallel card numbers headed by Gol D. Roger, OP09-118. This guide gives the official counts, the card numbers, and what a sealed box does and does not promise.

What are the key facts about OP-09?

OP-09 is a Japanese ONE PIECE CARD GAME booster set released on August 31, 2024, and the table below gives its exact names, code, date and contents as published on the official pages.

The set is themed around the Emperors of the Sea and the power dynamics in the New World, and it features all four Yonko and their crews. That theme explains most of what the rest of this guide covers: four Emperors leaders with alternate art, a gold Super Parallel Roger, and Special Card designs that reach back into earlier sets.

What is an OP-09 Secret Rare, and which OP-09 cards are Special Cards?

In OP-09 the Secret Rare tier has 2 cards and the Special Card tier has 10 designs, the same count as Super Rare.

The official rarity table for the Japanese set lists these counts: Special Card 10, Leader Card 6, Secret Rare 2, Super Rare 10, Rare 26, Uncommon 30, Common 45 and the DON!! Card 1. The official pages give the two Secret Rare slots as a count and do not attach card numbers to them, so this guide does not name them. Everything below is limited to what Bandai prints.

Three terms get mixed up, so here is how they differ in practice:

• Secret Rare is a rarity in the table. OP-09 has 2.
• Special Card is a separate rarity in the same table. OP-09 has 10, and the page lists the card numbers behind those designs.
• Super Parallel (called Super Alt-art on the English page) is an art treatment, not a rarity row. The page names five card numbers that receive it.

If you searched for an OP-09 Secret Rare list hoping for ranked names, the useful answer is the structure above: two Secret Rare slots, ten Special Card designs, and five Super Parallel numbers. The sections below give each group with its numbers.

How many cards of each rarity are in OP-09?

OP-09 has 129 unique cards, and the rarity counts add up exactly to that figure: 10 + 6 + 2 + 10 + 26 + 30 + 45 = 129, with the DON!! card counted separately.

The share column is simple arithmetic on the official counts. It describes how the card list is divided, not how often a card appears in packs.

The counts show how the list is divided. Secret Rare and Special Card together make up 12 of the 129 card types. Super Rare adds another 10, which gives 22 card types across those three rows, against 101 in the Common, Uncommon and Rare rows. The remaining 6 are the Leader Cards.

Which OP-09 cards are Super Parallel?

Five card numbers get the Super Parallel treatment in OP-09: OP09-118 (Gol D. Roger), OP09-004, OP09-093, OP09-051 and OP09-119.

The Japanese page lists Gol D. Roger, OP09-118, first and then the other four numbers, and notes that this is the first time four Super Parallel cards were released at once. The English page words it as “Gold Roger, ‘King of the Pirates’ OP09_118 with gold Super Parallel version” and “Super Alt-art: OP09-004, OP09_093, OP09-051, OP09-119”. The pages print some numbers with an underscore (OP09_093) and some with a hyphen (OP09-004); they are the same numbering, and we write them all with a hyphen.

Four of the five Super Parallel numbers also appear in the Special Card design list. OP09-118 does not; the Roger card is listed on its own line on both official pages. That matters when you read a card list: a card number can appear in more than one group, because one group describes the art treatment and the other describes the rarity row.

Which ten designs make up the OP-09 Special Card slot?

The Special Card slot is ten designs: six carry card numbers from earlier sets (OP07, OP04, OP05, OP08) and four carry OP-09 numbers.

The Japanese page lists the ten designs by number. The English page confirms the same count of 10 Special Cards.

The prefix column only reads the number printed on the official list. When you see OP07-015 or OP08-106 in an OP-09 context, you are looking at a Special Card design, and the number shows which set the design takes its numbering from.

Because this slot reuses numbers from OP-04, OP-05, OP-07 and OP-08, the safest way to avoid mistakes when buying singles is to match the full card number, not the character name alone.

How do Secret Rare, Special Card and Super Parallel fit together?

They are three different labels on the same card list, and a single card number can carry more than one of them.

A practical way to read the official pages:

1. Start with the rarity table. It tells you how many card types sit in each tier: 2 Secret Rares and 10 Special Cards.
2. Then read the Special Card design list. It tells you which card numbers are behind those 10 designs.
3. Then read the Super Parallel line. It tells you which numbers get the special art treatment: OP09-118 and four others.

The overlap you can verify from the pages is the four OP-09 numbers that sit in both the Special Card list and the Super Parallel line (OP09-004, OP09-051, OP09-093, OP09-119). Roger, OP09-118, is outside the ten-design list.

For a buyer this means: when a seller lists a card as “SP”, “Super Parallel”, “Special” or “SEC”, check which of the three labels is being used and compare the card number against the tables above. The labels are not interchangeable, and a listing that gives only a character name is the easiest one to get wrong.

Which OP-09 leaders and Four Emperors cards have alternate art?

The four Four Emperors leaders have alternate-art versions, and the set also adds two new Leaders: Lim (OP09-022) and Nico Robin (OP09-062).

The Japanese page describes the four Emperors cards as having Leader Parallel versions with original art. The English page calls them Leader cards with alt-art versions. The set has 6 Leader Cards in total, and this table accounts for all six: two new Leaders and the four Emperors leaders.

Our own booster box listing names Shanks, Blackbeard, Luffy (Emperor) and Buggy as key cards. The official pages name the Blackbeard leader Marshall D. Teech (OP09-081), so this guide uses the official name.

How does the Japanese OP-09 differ from the English edition?

The English edition has a different name, a later release date, one extra rarity (Treasure Rare) and a card count of 130+1 against 129+1 in the Japanese edition.

The Secret Rare and Special Card counts match across the two pages, and the Super Parallel numbers match too. The one rarity difference is the Treasure Rare, which appears in the English rarity list with a count of 1 and has no row in the Japanese list.

The products we ship are the Japanese edition. If you are comparing a Japanese card list with an English one, expect the Treasure Rare to be the extra line in the English table. The two editions also reached shelves about three and a half months apart, so any article or listing that quotes a single “OP-09 release date” needs to say which edition it means.

What does a sealed OP-09 box actually promise?

A sealed OP-09 booster box holds 24 packs of 6 cards, 144 cards in all, and makes no promise about which rare cards are inside.

Our OP-09 The New Emperor Japanese One Piece Booster Box (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) page says the same: it is a sealed, randomized product, the cards are packed at random at the factory, and individual card pulls are not promised. With 2 Secret Rares and 10 Special Cards among 129 card types, no box is promised to hold any particular one.

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Here is how to think about the choice between a box and singles:

• Buy a box if you want the full set experience, the commons and uncommons for deck building, and you accept that the top rarities are random.
• Buy singles if you need one specific card, such as a given Super Parallel number. In that case match the card number, not just the name.

Our recommendation for a collector who wants a named Special Card or Super Parallel is to buy that single card by its number rather than opening boxes in the hope of hitting it. A box is the right choice if the set itself is what you want.

What about the damaged box listing?

The damaged box is the same set at a discount because of cosmetic damage to the outer box, and the listing says the cards inside are unaffected.

The OP-09 damaged box listing (update: currently sold out — restock requests via Quick Order) is explicit about its terms: the photos are samples, the actual item may differ from them, the item is sold as-is, and returns and refunds are not accepted. Read that page before ordering a damaged box. If outer-box condition matters to you, for example for display, the regular box is the better fit; if you want the cards inside, the damaged box listing describes exactly that trade.

How do you buy OP-09 from outside Japan?

You order from our Tokyo warehouse and the box ships by FedEx with tracking; the shipping and payment terms below come from our own policy pages.

Details are in the shipping policy and the payment methods page. Delivery dates are estimates only. The shipping policy says they do not include handling time, customs processing, weekends, Japanese national holidays, carrier congestion or weather. After an order is handed to FedEx, customs inspections and import procedures in your country can delay delivery and are outside our control.

If you are shipping a sealed box for the first time, check the address field twice before paying. The policy places responsibility for a complete and accurate address on the customer, and a P.O. Box will not work with FedEx.

Which payment method should you choose for OP-09?

If you want to avoid the 5% processing fee, choose Wise bank transfer; if you want to pay instantly at checkout, choose PayPal or a card through PayPal.

The payment methods page sets out the trade-offs. Wise is the only method without the 5% fee, but it has deadlines. Without a screenshot of your transfer, the order is cancelled automatically if payment has not arrived within 12 hours of placing it (3 hours if the order contains a pre-order item). With a screenshot uploaded within 5 days, the order price is held for a total of 10 days from placing the order, and payment must arrive before that hold ends. The screenshot option requires an account and is not available at guest checkout.

If you pay by SWIFT, the payments page says a JPY 611 receiving fee is deducted before the funds reach us, so add JPY 611 to your order total, and select the OUR charge option so correspondent bank fees are covered on your side. A shortfall pauses order processing until it is paid.

What happens if dispatch is delayed or the address is wrong?

Most orders ship within 5 business days after payment clears, and if dispatch is delayed we email you the revised estimate as soon as practical.

The shipping policy explains that stock levels for sealed Japanese trading card products fluctuate frequently. Examples it gives of causes for a longer wait include supplier allocation changes, inventory arriving later than expected, or a unit reserved for your order failing quality inspection. For significant delays before handoff to FedEx, the policy says we may offer the option to wait or to cancel the order with a full refund.

For address mistakes, the policy lets you update the shipping address yourself from My Account while the order is paid and the shipment has not yet been scheduled. The destination country cannot be changed, and the shipping method stays as selected at checkout. If shipping to the new address costs more, you pay the difference before dispatch; if it costs less, the shipping charge is not recalculated and no refund is made. Once the shipment is scheduled, the self-service change closes. After an order is handed to FedEx, transit delays do not by themselves create a right to cancel or refund.

Where do these cards fit in the wider OP-09 picture?

The Secret Rare, Special Card and Super Parallel groups are the named top rows of the OP-09 list, and the rest of the set is built on the Leader, Rare, Uncommon and Common tiers.

For a collector, the Emperors theme shows in three places: the four Emperors leaders with alternate art, the gold Super Parallel version of Roger, and the Special Card designs that bring in numbers from earlier sets. To keep the numbers straight, use this short reference:

This reference is not a full card list. For every card in the set with its rarity, use our OP-09 card list; for the cards collectors chase and how to choose a box, see the OP-09 chase cards guide and the OP-09 booster box buying guide.

More OP-09 guides

• One Piece OP-09 Chase Cards: Top 10 Prices, Parallels and Box Guide
• OP-09 Booster Box Buying Guide: The New Emperor One Piece Box
• OP-09 The New Emperor One Piece Parallel, SP and Secret Rare List
• OP-09 Card List (Emperors in the New World): Cards and Rarities
• OP-09 Chase Cards: Emperors in the New World Top One Piece Hits

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