Monkey.D.Luffy has more printings in the One Piece Card Game than any other character, and that creates a real problem for anyone searching for a Monkey D. Luffy card: which Luffy? A ¥1,000 booster pull, a ¥45,000 starter deck parallel, or a single listing sitting at over a million yen (SNKRDUNK asks as of August 5, 2026)? The card number alone doesn’t tell you.
Luffy shows up as leaders, character cards, promos, THE BEST reprints, and DON!! cards. The Gear 5 (Nika) print, OP05-119, has its own dedicated breakdown because that single card number spans an 868x price range on its own.
Luffy cards split into four buckets: Leader cards (7+ versions across ST-01, OP-01, OP-05, OP-09, OP-11, OP-13 and the ST-30 dual-leader deck), SEC/SR character chase cards headlined by a Red Comic Parallel that outprices even the famous Gear 5 print, anniversary promos including the July 2026 29th Anniversary P-159, and DON!! cards. We ship the sealed One Piece booster boxes these cards come from, and sourcing requests for a specific chase card go through Quick Order.
- The P-159 29th Anniversary promo is currently listed in two options: Promo only at ¥1,320 (~$9) and with magazine at ¥1,386 (~$9).
- Print-by-print OP05-119 prices are in Gear 5 Luffy Cards: Every Version Priced.
- Set-by-set Japanese One Piece card lists are on the One Piece card list page.
Prices cited below are SNKRDUNK asking prices as of August 5, 2026, unless otherwise noted. These are listing prices on Japan’s marketplace, not confirmed sale prices, and single-listing items are labeled as such. USD figures convert at ¥154/USD, approximate.
The Luffy Card Universe: Leaders, Characters, Promos, DON!!
Before ranking anything, it helps to know the shape of the collection. Luffy cards in the One Piece Card Game fall into four structurally different groups, and each one plays by different rules:
- Leader cards — the deck-defining card that sets your starting Life and color identity. Luffy has appeared as a Leader in the original ST-01 starter, in OP-01, OP-05, OP-09, OP-11, and OP-13 main sets, and as a joint Leader in the 2026 ST-30 “Luffy & Ace” deck.
- Character (SEC/SR) chase cards — non-Leader Luffys pulled from booster packs, ranging from common playables up to Secret Rare (SEC) and Comic Parallel (コミパラ) treatments that anchor the most expensive singles in the entire game.
- Promos — cards distributed through magazines, storefront events, convenience-store tie-ins, or Bandai’s Premium Card Collection line rather than sold in booster boxes. These have their own numbering (the P-series) and their own scarcity logic.
- DON!! cards — the game’s resource cards, occasionally given special art treatments featuring Luffy alongside other Straw Hats or, in Gear 5’s case, alone.
Gear 5 material sits inside the “Character chase card” and “DON!!” buckets, but it’s specific enough — and valuable enough — that it gets its own full write-up rather than a summary paragraph here.
The Gear 5 Dynasty: OP05-119’s Price Ladder
The single most recognizable Luffy card in the game is Monkey.D.Luffy [OP05-119] from OP-05 Awakening of the New Era — the Nika/Gear 5 artwork, SEC rarity. What makes it a genuine phenomenon is that the same card number spans roughly an 868x price range depending on printing and treatment, from a ¥1,000 base booster pull up to a single ¥868,000 listing for the gold-background 3rd Anniversary Special print.
We cover every rung of that ladder — base SEC, THE BEST reprint, booster parallel, wanted-poster SPC, Comic Parallel, and the gold 3rd Anniversary SPC — along with the ST21 “EX Gear 5” starter deck versions and the P-041 convenience-store promo, in a dedicated deep dive: Gear 5 Luffy Cards: Every Version Priced (OP05-119, ST21, and P-041, from ¥1,000 to ¥868,000).
That article is the one to read if OP05-119 specifically is what you’re chasing. Outside Gear 5, one Luffy card actually outranks Gear 5’s own Comic Parallel.
Every Luffy Leader Card
Seven distinct Leader printings (excluding the Gear-5-specific ST21-001) have carried Luffy’s name since the game launched. Each one defines a different deck archetype:
| Set | Card # | Color | Life / Power | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-01 Straw Hat Crew | ST01-001 | Red | 5 / 5000 | The original Luffy Leader. Also exists as a gold-stamped Super Pre-Release alt-art and a Serial Numbered promo edition. |
| OP-01 Romance Dawn | OP01-003 | Red/Green | 4 / 5000 | The first two-color Luffy Leader. Standard and Parallel (foil) versions both exist. |
| OP-05 Awakening of the New Era | OP05-060 | Purple | 5 / 5000 | Standard, Alternate Art, and an Anime 25th Collection special-rarity print. Reprinted as the Leader of the ST-18 “PURPLE Monkey.D.Luffy” starter deck under the same card number. |
| OP-09 Emperors in the New World | OP09-061 | Purple/Black | 4 / 5000 | Standard, Alternate Art, and an English 2nd Anniversary Set promo version. |
| OP-11 A Fist of Divine Speed | OP11-040 | Blue/Purple | 3 / 6000 | Illustrated by Katsumi Ishizuka. |
| OP-13 Carrying on His Will | OP13-001 | Red/Green | 4 / 5000 | Standard and Alternate Art versions. Illustrated by Chiharu Akakura. |
| ST-30 -Luffy & Ace- | ST30-001 | Red/Green | 4 / 6000 | Joint “Luffy & Ace” Leader, released June 12, 2026, ships with a bonus pack of 3 random alt-art cards. |
OP05-060 deserves a second look: it’s the rare case of a single card number doing double duty as both a main-set pull and the headline card of its own dedicated starter deck (ST-18). If you’re buying loose singles, always confirm which product a copy came from before assuming they’re interchangeable in value — the pattern of “same card number, different print run, different market” repeats constantly across this game, as our THE BEST reprint guide covers in more depth.
Monkey D. Luffy Cards: the chase versions
Here’s the detail that surprises most people: the most expensive Luffy card observed in our August 5, 2026 SNKRDUNK measurement isn’t the Gear 5 print at all. It’s a Red Comic Parallel from OP-13.
| # | Card | Set | Ask (SNKRDUNK, Aug 5, 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-RSP Red Comic Parallel [OP13-118] 受け継がれる意志 | OP-13 Carrying on His Will | ¥1,570,000 (single listing) |
| — | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-SP Comic Parallel [OP05-119] 新時代の主役 (Gear 5) | OP-05 Awakening of the New Era | ¥775,000 — see the Gear 5 guide for the full ladder |
| 2 | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-SP Comic Parallel [EB02-061] | EB-02 Anime 25th Collection | ¥488,000 |
| 3 | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-SP Comic Parallel [OP13-118] (regular) | OP-13 Carrying on His Will | ¥350,000 |
| 4 | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-SP Comic Parallel [OP09-119] 新たなる皇帝 | OP-09 Emperors in the New World | ¥250,000 |
| 5 | Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-SP Comic Parallel [OP11-118] 神速の拳 | OP-11 A Fist of Divine Speed | ¥115,000 |
The pattern behind these asks is the same one that defines the entire high end of the One Piece Card Game market: Comic Parallels (コミパラ) dominate, and Red Comic Parallels from OP-13 sit above regular comic parallels. OP13-118 alone produced both the single most expensive Luffy card measured (the Red Comic Parallel at ¥1,570,000, one listing observed) and a second, separately-priced regular Comic Parallel at ¥350,000 — over a 4x gap on the same card number, same set, different print run.
This same measurement placed the OP05-119 Gear 5 Comic Parallel at #3 in our broader Most Valuable One Piece Cards ranking, one spot behind a Shanks THE BEST reprint. Comic Parallels as a category, across every character, are also the subject of our manga rare cards guide, which explains what a Comic Parallel treatment actually is and why it commands this kind of premium over standard art.
These asks reflect a small number of active listings, and the ¥1,570,000 Red Comic Parallel ask was a single listing at time of measurement — not a confirmed sale. Treat them as a snapshot of where sellers are pricing the market on a given day, not as fixed values.
Promo and Anniversary Luffys
Outside the booster-pack chase, Luffy has anchored several promo-only releases that never went through a standard set at all.
P-001 — a Red, Cost 6, Power 7000 Strike-type Luffy card (“[DON!!x2] this Character gains [Rush]”) — has been reissued repeatedly: Promotion Pack 2022, the Premium Card Collection -25th Edition-, Gift Collection 2023, the Bandai Card Games Fest. 23-24 Edition Premium Card Collection, and a Super Pre-Release [Participant] alternate-art version. It’s less a single card than a recurring promo template Bandai keeps bringing back.
P-159 is the more notable recent release. It’s the 29th Anniversary of One Piece promo, and it’s a genuinely new scene rather than a reprint — Luffy depicted in his current, Elbaf-arc appearance enjoying a large meat feast, illustrated specifically for the anniversary. It shipped bundled with Weekly Shōnen Jump 2026 Issue #33 in Japan on July 13, 2026, with an unusually large 500,000-copy print run to meet demand. A Japan-only order window (opening July 6, 2026) offered a set of 8 cards — 4 regular plus 4 foil-stamped “deluxe” versions — and overseas collectors could preorder a “Premium Card Collection 29th Anniversary Edition” through Premium Bandai starting the same week. For the database rows, the all-applicants service and our two listing options, see Monkey D. Luffy P-159 One Piece Promo: Promo Only vs With Magazine.
THE BEST Premium Booster Reprints
Bandai’s “ONE PIECE CARD THE BEST” premium booster line exists specifically to reprint iconic cards with new artwork treatments, and Luffy has been a headline inclusion in both volumes so far.
PRB-01 (Japan release July 27, 2024; international release November 8, 2024) reprinted the most iconic cards from OP-01 through OP-06, including a Comic Parallel reprint of the Gear 5 chase card OP05-119 — covered in full in the Gear 5 guide.
PRB-02 (released October 3, 2025) gave Monkey.D.Luffy new Alternate Art and Super Alternate Art treatments. PRB-02 also included an Event SP reimagining Luffy’s Gum-Gum Giant attack, based on the OP09-078 “Gum-Gum Giant” Purple event card from OP-09.
The broader mechanics of how THE BEST pulls and pricing work — pull rates, box math, and how reprint prices compare to their original-set counterparts — are covered separately in our One Piece Card THE BEST guide.
DON!! Cards Featuring Luffy
Luffy has also appeared on special DON!! resource-card art outside the Gear 5 material. The clearest verified example is SDS-01 “Special DON!! Set Vol.1 -Luffy-“, a North America-exclusive product containing 2 booster packs plus one special DON!! card illustrated with Ace, Sabo, and Luffy together. It released in March 2025 at a $9.99 MSRP.
Where to Buy Luffy Cards and Sealed One Piece Product
The Luffy singles named on this page trade on Japan’s secondary market at prices that move by the week. We ship sealed One Piece booster boxes out of Tokyo with tracked delivery, so every chase card on this page is still something you can pull yourself, at whatever odds the set carries. Straw Hat Crew, Awakening of the New Era, Carrying on His Will, Emperors in the New World, and A Fist of Divine Speed are all sets that have produced a Luffy chase card.
Sourcing requests for a specific Luffy single — a particular Leader parallel or a Comic Parallel — go through our Quick Order want-list: give the card number and the treatment you want.
If you’re new to importing from Japan generally, our guide to buying One Piece cards from Japan in 2026 covers shipping, authentication, and what to expect on delivery times. And if Luffy isn’t the character you’re after, our Nami cards guide and the broader One Piece Card best-of guide cover other chase-card landscapes in the same format as this page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Luffy card is the most valuable?
Based on SNKRDUNK asking prices as of August 5, 2026, the Monkey.D.Luffy SEC-RSP Red Comic Parallel [OP13-118] from OP-13 Carrying on His Will carries the highest ask observed, at ¥1,570,000 (a single listing). That’s higher than the famous Gear 5 Comic Parallel [OP05-119], which sat at ¥775,000 in the same measurement.
Is the Gear 5 Luffy card more valuable than other Luffy cards?
Not necessarily. The Gear 5 print (OP05-119) is the most recognizable Luffy card and spans the widest price range of any single card number (¥1,000 to ¥868,000 across its various printings), but the OP-13 Red Comic Parallel [OP13-118] was observed asking higher, at ¥1,570,000. See our Gear 5 Luffy guide for the full breakdown of that card’s printings.
What are the Luffy Leader cards in One Piece Card Game?
Seven confirmed Leader printings exist outside the Gear-5-specific ST21-001: ST01-001 (the original), OP01-003, OP05-060 (also the Leader of the ST-18 starter deck), OP09-061, OP11-040, OP13-001, and the joint “Luffy & Ace” Leader ST30-001 released June 12, 2026.
What are the manga or Comic Parallel Luffy cards?
Comic Parallels (コミパラ) are alternate-art treatments styled after One Piece’s manga panels rather than the game’s standard character art. Verified Luffy Comic Parallels include OP13-118 (both a Red Comic Parallel and a regular Comic Parallel), EB02-061, OP09-119, OP11-118, and the Gear 5 print OP05-119. These consistently rank among the highest asking prices in the entire card game.
Where can I buy Luffy cards from Japan?
We ship sealed One Piece Card Game booster boxes from Tokyo with tracked delivery via our One Piece collection. Sourcing requests for a specific Luffy single, such as a Leader parallel or a Comic Parallel, go through our Quick Order want-list.
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