ST-37 Pre-Order Guide: When and How to Buy From Japan

Updated November 10, 2026

ST-37 (ST37) is the ONE PIECE Card Game Starter Deck -The Desert Princess and the Pirates-, a red/blue deck in the Japanese edition. The official Japanese product page gives a release date of December 19, 2026 and a price of 1,430 yen including tax.

What is ST-37 in the ONE PIECE Card Game?

ST-37 is a ready-to-play starter deck, named Start Deck Desert Princess and the Pirates in Japan and STARTER DECK -The Desert Princess and the Pirates- on the English site. It is built around red and blue cards with characters from the Straw Hat Crew and the Kingdom of Alabasta, as both official pages describe it.

A starter deck differs from a booster box in a simple way. A booster box is a sealed case of packs you open to collect cards at random. A starter deck is a constructed deck, so you get a set of 51 cards in one product, plus 10 DON!! cards, a bonus pack and a playsheet.

The set code ST-37 sits next to ST-38, a Baroque Works deck released on the same day. The English page lists ST-38 and the booster pack THE DOMINANCE OF GOD [OP-18] as related products.

This article covers the Japanese edition. When a Japanese and an English fact differ, we say which page gave which, because the two official pages are not identical.

When is the ST-37 release date in Japan?

ST-37 goes on sale in Japan on Saturday, December 19, 2026, according to the official Japanese product page. The official English page words it as “Available Dec. 18, 2026”, one day earlier.

The one-day gap comes from the two official pages themselves. Japan’s date is a Saturday, and the official pages for EB-05 (October 31, 2026), OP-18 (November 21, 2026), EB-06 (January 30, 2027) and OP-19 (February 27, 2027) also give Saturday dates. For the Japanese edition, use December 19, 2026 as the date. If you follow the English page, plan around December 18.

The English page adds a rule about tournament play: cards are tournament legal 7 days after the release date in your region, and they are legal from the pre-release date at your local game store. That matters for players planning to use ST-37 cards in organised play, because the legal date depends on your region and not on the Japanese release date.

Can you pre-order ST-37?

No pre-order or lottery sale is listed for ST-37 on the official ONE PIECE Card Game product pages. The Japanese page gives the release date and links to a store list, and the English page carries no pre-order or lottery information either.

Samurai Sword Tokyo does not have an ST-37 product page yet. You can subscribe to our shop newsletter with the sign-up box on this page for shop updates.

The paired deck follows the same pattern. The ST-38 Baroque Works page lists the same December 19, 2026 release date and no pre-order or lottery sale. The older ST-30 Luffy & Ace page, for a starter deck released on April 11, 2026, also lists none.

Booster products are shown differently on the official site. The OP-18 page lists a Premium Bandai lottery sale from Friday, November 6 to Thursday, November 12, 2026. The EB-05 page lists a Premium Bandai lottery from October 30 to November 5, 2026. For ST-37, the page shows none.

Our shipping policy also explains why timing matters for anything tied to a release date: delivery estimates do not include pre-order release timing or supplier allocation delays, so a release date is the start of the process and not the day a parcel arrives.

How much does ST-37 cost?

ST-37 costs 1,430 yen including tax in Japan, and the English page lists an MSRP of USD $16.99. These are the two official prices, and they come from different pages for different markets.

For context, the starter deck ST-30 Luffy & Ace is listed at 1,980 yen including tax, and ST-38 is listed at the same 1,430 yen as ST-37. A booster pack in recent sets (OP-18, EB-05, EB-06, OP-19) is 240 yen including tax per pack, with 6 cards per pack.

Those yen prices are the official retail prices in Japan. They are not what an overseas buyer pays in total, because shipping, payment fees and any import charges in your country come on top. Our shipping policy says shipping cost is calculated at checkout from your delivery address, and our payment methods page says all payments are made in Japanese yen.

What is inside the ST-37 starter deck?

The ST-37 box contains a constructed deck of 51 cards, 10 DON!! cards, 1 bonus pack and 1 playsheet. The Japanese page describes the deck as 51 cards in 17 types and the bonus pack as a pack with 17 types; the English page says the bonus pack holds 3 cards.

The rarity line on both official pages is the same: 1 Leader card, 2 Super Rare and 14 Common. That adds up to 17 card types, which matches the “17 types” in the deck description. The 51-card deck has fewer card types than cards because several types appear more than once.

The official notes carry three cautions. The same card can appear multiple times, because of the nature of the product. Photos and illustrations on the page may differ from the final product. Specifications may change. The English page adds that multiples of one card may appear, so a full set can be hard to assemble from one deck.

The deck also includes 10 DON!! cards and a playsheet, as listed on both pages.

Which cards are in ST-37?

The official ST-37 pages name no individual cards yet, so the confirmed card information is the structure: 1 Leader, 2 Super Rare and 14 Common types, with Straw Hat Crew and Kingdom of Alabasta characters in red and blue.

That is what the two official ST-37 pages state, and we do not fill it in with guesses. The Leader slot, the two Super Rares and the colour pairing are the details you can plan around.

The page lists the deck as Red/Blue, and names Straw Hat Crew and Kingdom of Alabasta as its character themes. If you build decks,

The page does not say which characters hold the Leader or Super Rare slots, so treat any character list you see elsewhere as unofficial.

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How does ST-37 compare with ST-38 and ST-30?

ST-37 and ST-38 are the same price, the same size and the same release date; they differ in theme. ST-37 is red/blue with Straw Hat Crew and Alabasta characters, and ST-38 is the Baroque Works deck.

Our ST-37 vs ST-38 guide sets the two decks side by side, and our ST-37 explained guide goes through the release, price and contents in more depth.

Which one should you pick? If you like the Straw Hat Crew and Alabasta side, ST-37 is the one built around those characters. If you prefer the Baroque Works side, that is ST-38. Because both cost the same and release on the same day, price does not decide it for you; the theme does. Players who want both decks can buy both, since each comes as a 51-card deck with 10 DON!! cards.

What else releases around ST-37?

Four products surround ST-37 on the official product pages: OP-18 before it, ST-38 on the same day, and EB-06 and OP-19 after it. Each has its own official page with a date and price.

The dates come from the official pages for EB-05, OP-18, EB-06 and OP-19. The pages for EB-06 and OP-19 list no pre-order or lottery sale, in the same way as ST-37.

If you collect by calendar, the picture is clear: OP-18 lands four weeks before ST-37, and EB-06 follows six weeks after it. Our guides cover the later sets in detail: the EB-06 EAST BLUE pre-order guide, the EB-06 release date and price guide and the OP-19 release date and price guide.

What can you buy now while you wait?

Other Japanese-edition ONE PIECE Card Game booster boxes are available now: OP-13 and EB-05 are both in stock. They are different sets from ST-37, and they are sealed Japanese products from the same game.

EB-05 is dated October 31, 2026 on its official page, and a box holds 24 packs of 6 cards. The damaged-box listing is the same set in a box with outer damage, sold under the damaged-item terms on the product page. Read those terms before buying it.

More sealed boxes are in our One Piece Card Box collection. Stock changes often, so check each product page for its current status before you order.

How do shipping and payment work for sealed Japanese products?

Orders ship from Japan by FedEx with tracking, and payment is made in Japanese yen. The details below come from our shipping policy and payment methods pages.

Two points from the shipping policy matter for any release-date product. First, delivery dates shown at checkout or in carrier tools are estimates and do not include handling time, pre-order release timing, supplier allocation delays, weekends, Japanese national holidays, customs processing or carrier congestion. Second, after an order is handed to FedEx, delivery timing is controlled by the carrier and destination-country authorities, and customs inspections or import procedures may delay delivery.

On payment, the payment methods page says any difference between the amount charged and the amount on your statement comes from exchange rates and conversion fees set by your card issuer, bank or PayPal. If you pay by Wise without uploading a screenshot, the order is cancelled automatically if payment has not arrived within 12 hours; with a screenshot uploaded within 5 days, the price is held for a total of 10 days.

Where can you read pre-order guides for earlier sets?

Our guides for earlier sets show how release dates, boxes and Japanese-edition details were covered before. Three of them are linked here for readers who want to compare timelines.

• PRB-02 release date and Japanese booster box guide
• OP-15 pre-order guide
• OP-05 booster box guide

These guides are about other sets, so use them for timeline comparisons and not for ST-37 facts. For ST-37 itself, the two official pages are the source: the Japanese page and the English page.

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