The Best OP02 Cards to Invest In (2026): Every Paramount War Chase Variant, in PSA 10
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The best OP02 card to invest in is the Portgas D. Ace Manga Rare #OP02-013 — the comic-panel Ace, the second set's only Manga Rare and its undisputed grail, with a verified PSA 10 sale at $4,000in June 2026 and thirty sales on the tape since January. Paramount War (2023 in English, 2022 in Japan) is the Marineford set — Whitebeard, Ace, Boa Hancock, the war that killed the series' most-mourned character — and every price below comes from real PSA-graded sold comps, not asking prices.
One Piece pricing has a rule Pokémon collectors need a minute to absorb: the variant is the card. OP02-013 exists as an English Manga Rare ($4,000), a Japanese Manga Rare ($1,170), a Two Legends SP reprint ($537), a base SR ($132), and a Japanese alt art ($58) — same number, five different assets separated by 69x. This guide tracks every variant separately, the way the market actually trades them. It is one chapter of the One Piece investing guide.
What Is the Most Expensive OP02 Card?
The Portgas D. Ace Manga Rare, and nothing else in the set is within 7x of it. The comic-panel art of Ace is Paramount War's answer to the Gear 5 Luffy — the card that turned a story beat into an asset. Ace dies in this set's war, and the market has priced the grief accordingly: a dense 2026 tape running $1,825 to $4,200, with the last verified sale at $4,000 on June 12. Every sale in the archive, live:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 30 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
That tape is hand-verified — Fanatics archive plus the licensed eBay feed — and it is the richest in the set by an order of magnitude. The full Ace story across every set, including the 2024 Premium Booster manga at $2,450 and the OP13 tribute manga, lives in the Ace investing guide.
The honest surprise: Paramount War is Whitebeard's set, but the market never made him the grail. Edward Newgate's alt-art leader trades at $126 in English and $58 in Japanese. The only four-figure Whitebeard in the archive is a tournament promo — the Offline Regional Top 16 Newgate printed $2,310 in PSA 10 — and tournament prize cards sit outside our set tracker, so that one is a footnote, not a row. If you want Marineford exposure, the market says Ace.
What Is Every OP02 Chase Card Worth?
The full tracker: every OP02 variant with a verified PSA-graded comp, sorted by card number — English and Japanese printings as separate rows, because they trade at different prices. A dash means no verified PSA 10 sale yet; for those cards the PSA 9 column is the only live market, and a 10 always prices above the 9 of the same card.
| # | Card | PSA 10 | 10s tracked | PSA 9 | Last 10 sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OP02-001 | Edward Newgate — Alt Art | $126 | 3 | — | 2025-11-23 |
| OP02-013 | Portgas D. Ace — Manga Rare | $4,000 | 30 | — | 2026-06-12 |
| OP02-013 | Portgas D. Ace — SP | $537 | 5 | — | 2026-06-19 |
| OP02-013 | Paramount War SR Portgas D. Ace | $132 | 3 | — | 2026-03-15 |
| OP02-018 | Marco — Alt Art | $50 | 7 | — | 2026-03-07 |
| OP02-026 | Sanji — Alt Art | $300 | 3 | — | 2026-06-29 |
| OP02-030 | Kozuki Oden — Alt Art | $31 | 1 | — | 2025-06-08 |
| OP02-031 | Paramount War Box Topper Kozuki Toki | $62 | 1 | — | 2026-05-31 |
| OP02-035 | Promo Offline Regional Finalist Trafalgar Law · Finalist | $46 | 1 | — | 2025-08-17 |
| OP02-036 | Nami — Alt Art | $99 | 4 | — | 2025-11-10 |
| OP02-041 | Monkey D. Luffy — Alt Art | $83 | 2 | — | 2026-04-26 |
| OP02-041 | Paramount War Monkey D. Luffy | $18 | 1 | — | 2025-06-08 |
| OP02-042 | Volume 1 Yamato | $29 | 3 | — | 2026-05-27 |
| OP02-053 | Promo Offline Regional Finalist Vol 2 Crocodile · Finalist | $36 | 6 | — | 2025-08-17 |
| OP02-062 | Monkey D. Luffy — Alt Art | $109 | 4 | — | 2026-06-10 |
| OP02-072 | Zephyr — Alt Art | $62 | 1 | — | 2025-03-16 |
| OP02-073 | Little Sadi — Alt Art | $40 | 1 | — | 2026-05-31 |
| OP02-073 | Volume 1 Little Sadi | $120 | 1 | — | 2026-05-26 |
| OP02-093 | Smoker — Alt Art | $111 | 2 | — | 2026-05-31 |
| OP02-099 | Sakazuki — Alt Art | $50 | 1 | — | 2025-04-17 |
| OP02-108 | Paramount War Box Topper Donquixote Rosinante | $50 | 1 | — | 2025-09-02 |
| OP02-120 | Uta — SEC | $87 | 1 | — | 2026-04-26 |
| OP02-120 | Uta — SP | $360 | 1 | — | 2026-03-15 |
| OP02-120 | Uta — Alt Art | $79 | 10 | — | 2026-02-22 |
| OP02-120 | Paramount War Uta | $52 | 1 | — | 2026-02-22 |
What's deliberately not in the table: reprint products (The Best, Anniversary Set, Gift Collection) and two Boa Hancock tapes we could not certify. The iconic Boa alt art is the set's missing row— the only English alt-art sales in the archive come from the Gift Collection '23 reprint (two June 2026 prints at $468 and $499), and the English promo tape commingles three different Boa products, running $31 to $492with no way to split them. Rather than publish a blended number for cards that aren't the same asset, we track only her clean Japanese box-topper tape ($38 across 11 sales) and say the rest out loud. The original Paramount War alt-art Ace has the same problem: its English sales are mixed into the 2024 Two Legends SP tape in the archive, so it carries no published FMV either.
What Are OP02 Manga Rares, SPs, and Alt Arts Worth?
OP02 predates the deep chase engineering of later sets: one Manga Rare, one SEC, and an alt-art class that does the volume. Where OP05 printed three Mangas, Paramount War printed exactly one — which concentrates the whole set's premium into Ace. The SP class came later: SPs are foil inserts from 2024-era boosters that carry the original OP02 numbers, and they now outprice most of the set — the Two Legends SP Ace at $537, the Uta SP at $360:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 5 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
The class hierarchy has one genuine anomaly: the set's secret rare is nearly its cheapest chase.The Uta SEC — the Film Red idol, the set's official top rarity — has a single verified English 10 at $87, a quarter of her own SP. In OP02 the printed rarity and the market rarity are different lists. Among the true Paramount War booster alt arts, the leader Sanji is the one with a real 2026 bid:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 3 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
Are English or Japanese OP02 Cards Worth More?
English — typically by 2x to 4x on the same variant. One Piece is a Japanese-first game with far larger Japanese print runs, so JP supply is deep while English chase supply is thin — the reverse of vintage Pokémon. We track the English market: every price on this page is an English printing.
Is OP02 a Good Investment?
Here is the honest framing this market deserves. The One Piece TCG is four years old and has never traded through a bear market.The Ace Manga's verified climb is real; so is the fact that young markets produce moves like that in both directions. What the bulls have: the biggest anime IP on earth, Marineford as the most rewatched arc in the series, and a one-Manga set where all nostalgia demand funnels into a single card. What the bears have: no downturn survival data, thin order books — outside the Ace tapes, most tracker rows rest on one to five sales — and live reprint pressure specific to this set: Bandai has already re-run OP02 art through Two Legends SPs ($537), the Anniversary Sets ($185 for the Japanese SR Ace), and The Best reprints that gem for $18 to $44. Each reprint is a separate, cheaper asset — and a reminder that the print run is whatever Bandai decides next. Size positions like it's venture, not bonds. Nothing here is financial advice.
OP02 FAQ
What is the most expensive OP02 card?
The Portgas D. Ace Manga Rare #OP02-013 in English — $4,000 at its last verified PSA 10 sale in June 2026, with a $4,200 print in May. The Japanese manga is $1,170; the base SR of the same number is $132.
How many Manga Rares does OP02 have?
One — the comic-panel Ace. Paramount War predates the multi-Manga chase structure of later sets, which concentrates the set's entire top-end premium into a single card.
Are Japanese OP02 cards worth less than English?
Yes — typically 2x to 4x less on the same variant, because Japanese print runs are much larger and Japan's release came first. The Ace manga gap is 3.4x.
How many OP02 chase cards are there?
We track 25 variants with verified graded comps — the Manga Rare, SECs, SPs, alt arts, box toppers, and clean promo variants across English and Japanese printings. The complete PSA 10 chase run totals about $6,669.
Keep going: the One Piece investing pillar ranks the game's top ten across all sets, the Ace, Luffy, and Nami guides go deep on the characters, the OP05 set guide covers the game's deepest chase set, the live One Piece index re-prices the chase class daily, and the live deal feed is where underpriced slabs surface. Weighing a raw submission? The PSA 10 value calculator prices the gem premium.
