Saint Gunko OP-18: What Japanese Collectors Should Know

Saint Gunko in OP-18 (OP18), Booster Pack THE DOMINANCE OF GOD, is a Leader card, OP18-060, with Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights of God types. The Japanese edition releases on November 21, 2026, and the English edition on November 20, 2026. Saint Gunko makes its ONE PIECE CARD GAME debut in this set.

OP-18 The Dominance of God (Japan release: November 21, 2026): see our OP-18 release date guide and OP-18 card list of revealed cards.

Updated November 11, 2026

This guide follows one character. For the full set, use our OP-18 The Dominance of God card list, and for the whole product see the OP-18 guide. If you want a booster box from an earlier set while you wait, the OP-16 The Time of Battle booster box carton is currently listed.

Who is Saint Gunko in the OP-18 set?

Saint Gunko is the Leader of the Holy Knights of God theme in OP-18, and the official pages describe the character as the World Government’s greatest force fighting alongside the immortal Knights of God. The official set copy says “Saint Gunko and Saint Shamrock make their ONE PIECE CARD GAME debut!”, so these are new characters to the card game rather than reprints.

OP-18 centers on Water Seven and the Holy Knights of God. The Japanese tagline reads, in the Asia English wording, “The World’s Greatest Power Has Arrived…!” The Leader card OP18-060 carries the Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights of God types, and the official page names two combo cards for it.

For a collector, three things make Saint Gunko stand out in this release. First, the character has a Leader, a Super Leader Alt Art and a separate 4th anniversary alt-art card, so there are several versions to track. Second, the Leader has two named combo cards that are also new characters. Third, the Holy Knights theme ties into the 4th anniversary promotion that runs around the launch, which is covered in our OP-18 release events guide.

If you collect by character, you can also read our separate Gunko OP18 character cards guide, which covers the same character from the card-by-card side.

When does Saint Gunko release in Japan and in English?

Saint Gunko releases with OP-18 on November 21, 2026 in Japan and on November 20, 2026 in the English edition. The Japanese official page lists the release as Saturday, November 21, 2026 at ¥240 per pack, tax included, and the official ONE PIECE news post repeats that date and price.

The Japanese page also lists a Premium Bandai lottery application period from November 6 (Friday) to November 12 (Thursday), 2026. A launch event for official shops in Japan (交流会) runs from November 21 to December 6, 2026, with an entry period of October 16 to October 25 and a winner announcement on October 30, according to the news post above.

For tournament play, the English page states that cards are legal 7 days after release in your region, and legal from the pre-release date at your local game store. The English 4th Anniversary Event (OP-18 Release Event) runs from November 20 to December 17, 2026, and stores choose Constructed, Sealed or Standard Regulation. Participation prizes include P-161 Monkey.D.Luffy and a 4th Anniversary Leader Card, per the official event page.

There is also Double Pack Set Vol.13 [DP-13], which contains two OP-18 Booster Packs and one DON!! Card in 2 designs, at USD $11.99 MSRP and released November 20, 2026 per the official DP-13 page. Its box doubles as a card case.

To compare the English and Japanese timing in more detail, read One Piece OP-18 English vs Japanese.

Which Saint Gunko OP18 cards are in the set?

Three Saint Gunko cards are named on the official pages: OP18-060 (Leader), OP18-065 (alt art) and OP18-084 (a suggested combo card), plus the related Saint Shamrock OP18-119. The official pages give the numbers and the version types. Colours and rarities in the table below come from our OP-18 card list page, where these rows are marked as reported because the cards are not yet in Bandai’s official card database. They can still change.

That gives collectors a short target list. If you want the Leader together with the combo cards the official page names, the three entries to track are OP18-060, OP18-084 and OP18-119. If you collect art, OP18-060 in its Super Leader Alt Art form and OP18-065 are the Saint Gunko versions that the official pages call out by name. The full set has 127+1 card types, and the official rarity breakdown is: Special 6, Treasure Rare 1, Leader 6, Secret Rare 3, Super Rare 10, Rare 26, Uncommon 30, Common 45 and DON!! Card 1.

The official pages also warn that multiple copies of one card may appear and that a full set may be hard to assemble, and that illustrations and product details may differ from the final product. Cards are randomly inserted. Treat any single-card plan as a plan, not a promise of what a given box contains.

For the card rows of the entire set, use the OP-18 card list page rather than this article; it carries the same reported/official status labels.

What do we know about the Saint Gunko Leader card OP18-060?

OP18-060 Saint Gunko is a Leader with the Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights of God types, and the official page lists OP18-084 Saint Gunko and OP18-119 Saint Shamrock as its suggested combo cards. Cost, power and effect text are not published on the official product pages, so this guide does not state them. Read them from the official card database once the card is listed there.

What the official pages do tell you about the Leader is useful for planning:

• Types: Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights of God. The official page names OP18-084 Saint Gunko and OP18-119 Saint Shamrock as the two suggested combo cards.
• Flavour: the World Government’s greatest force, fighting alongside the immortal Knights of God.
• Versions: a standard Leader and a Super Leader Alt Art.
• Reported colour and rarity: Purple/Black and L, per our card list page, where the colour and number are flagged as reported and subject to change.

Our card list page reports the Leader as Purple/Black and flags the number as disputed. Because those details are reported rather than official, confirm them against the official database after release.

The Leader comes as a standard print and a Super Leader Alt Art, and both carry the same card number, OP18-060. A collector following the character therefore has two versions of the Leader to note.

What do the parallel and 4th anniversary versions look like?

Saint Gunko has a Super Leader Alt Art for OP18-060 and a 4th anniversary Holy Knights alt-art card at OP18-065. The official English page lists “Super Leader Alt Art: Saint Gunko (OP18-060)” and “Holy Knights alt-art cards celebrating the 4th anniversary: OP18-065 Saint Gunko”, and the Japanese page describes OP18-065 as a special 4th-anniversary design.

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Here is how the versions line up:

The same 4th anniversary Holy Knights group on the official page also shows OP17-119 Loki, which is a card from a different set. In that group, OP18-065 is the Saint Gunko entry. The Japanese page labels this group the “Divine Knights parallel”, and some reports call the 065 card a “Super parallel” in a Holy Knights design. On our list page it is reported as SR with a Super parallel, and the colour for it is flagged as disputed.

Two other alt arts in OP-18 sit nearby and matter if you are collecting the Holy Knights side: Saint Shamrock OP18-119 has an alt art with original artwork by Yoshitaka Amano, and Nico Robin OP18-031 has a Super Alt Art. For the Amano card and the other high-rarity cards, our OP-18 Secret Rares and Amano alt art article separates reported from official information, and our Robin OP-18 guide covers the Super Alt Art.

The official pages do not publish pull rates, so no odds are given here. The product pages say only that cards are randomly inserted. For the pull-rate topic, see One Piece OP-18 Pull Rates.

Which cards are suggested combos for Saint Gunko?

The two suggested combo cards for Saint Gunko are OP18-084 Saint Gunko and OP18-119 Saint Shamrock. The official English page lists them under the Leader as suggested combo cards, and the Japanese page lists them as related cards.

One of the two combo cards is another Saint Gunko print, and the other is Saint Shamrock, the character that shares the “debut” line with Saint Gunko. The Shamrock card is the one with the Yoshitaka Amano alt art, and our card list page reports it as a Black Secret Rare with two parallel versions.

The practical step is simple: track three card numbers, OP18-060, OP18-084 and OP18-119, and wait for the official database to publish the card text before you decide how many copies of each you need. Because the pack contents are random and a full set can be hard to assemble, a deck-first buyer and an art-first buyer will want different amounts.

For collectors, the Amano Shamrock card is the art highlight of the combo pair, while the Saint Gunko alt arts (OP18-060 Super Leader Alt Art and OP18-065) are the art highlights of the character itself.

How does Saint Gunko compare with the other OP-18 Leaders?

Saint Gunko is one of six OP-18 Leaders, and it is the Leader the official page ties to the Holy Knights of God. The other five are Karoo, Monkey.D.Luffy, Ms. All Sunday, Franky and Spandam, each tied to a different theme.

The comparison shows the set’s spread. Karoo and Ms. All Sunday are tied to Albasta and Baroque Works, Luffy and Franky to Water Seven and the Straw Hat Crew, and Spandam to CP9. Saint Gunko carries the Celestial Dragon and Holy Knights of God types, which matches the set’s Holy Knights of God theme. The set’s other special versions go to different characters: Nico Robin has the Super Alt Art, and Saint Shamrock has the Amano alt art.

If you are choosing which Leader to follow, pick by what you want from the set. Saint Gunko is the choice for the new Holy Knights theme and the debut characters. Luffy and Franky are the choices if you prefer the Water Seven and Straw Hat Crew types. For a view of the release timing across the surrounding sets, see EB-06 vs OP-18 vs OP-19.

What can you buy while you wait for OP-18?

Earlier Japanese One Piece sets are currently listed in our One Piece Card Box collection, and the table below shows the OP-16, OP-15 and OP-14 items. These are different sets from OP-18, so none of them contain Saint Gunko cards. They are simply other Japanese sets you can look at while you wait for the release.

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