The Best OP09 Cards to Invest In (2026): Every Emperors in the New World Chase Variant, in PSA 10
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The best OP09 card to invest in is the Gol D. Roger Manga Rare #OP09-118 — $18,600on its only verified PSA 10 sale, in February 2026. That is the highest verified price any One Piece booster-set card has ever printed, above every sale in the OP05 Gear 5 Luffy's tape — and whether one comp is enough to hand Roger the crown is the honest question at the center of this set. Around him, Emperors in the New World (2025) is the biggest-money set in the game: 35 tracked chase variants worth $37,592in PSA 10 — the largest full chase run of any One Piece set we track, ahead of OP05's roughly $32,800 — and five Manga Rares where OP05 printed three.
The methodology is the same as every chapter of the One Piece investing guide: the variant is the card. OP09-118 exists as a base card ($36), a SEC ($100), an alternate art ($250), a Japanese manga ($3,540), and the English Manga Rare ($18,600) — one card number, five assets separated by 500x. Every price below is a real PSA-graded sold comp, English and Japanese tracked as separate rows, because that is how the market actually trades them.
Is the Gol D. Roger Manga Rare the Most Expensive One Piece Card?
On its last verified sale, yes: $18,600 in February 2026 — above every price the OP05 Gear 5 Luffy has ever printed. The gold comic-panel art of the Pirate King out-printed the card that has defined the One Piece market since 2023. But the crown comes with an asterisk this guide takes seriously: that Roger price is a single comp. One verified PSA 10 has traded, once, five months ago. Here is the entire tape:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 1 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
The incumbent is a different kind of asset. The Gear 5 Luffy Manga (#OP05-119) carries a thirteen-sale verified tape with prints of $17,400 and $17,600 this spring and a fair market value of $16,200 — the deepest, most liquid four-figure market in the game:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 13 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
So the precise version of the claim: on the tape as it stands, the most expensive One Piece card is the Roger Manga at $18,600 — on one verified sale.The Gear 5 Luffy remains the game's reference asset, and the next Roger print settles the argument. (Serialized tournament prize cards — the /1000 championship promos — trade in their own lane and are excluded here, the way Pokémon trophy cards are.)
One verified sale is a data point, not a market — Roger's crown rests on a single February print against the Gear 5's thirteen-sale tape, so either the Pirate King's first Manga Rare genuinely commands the set's widest premium, or the next trade clears lower. Both can be true; size accordingly. The deeper history of the card it dethroned lives in the OP05 set guide and the Luffy investing guide.
What Is Every OP09 Chase Card Worth?
The full tracker: every English OP09 variant with a verified PSA-graded comp, sorted by card number. 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. Tournament promos that reuse OP09 numbers — like the Championship Top 16 Zoro #OP09-076, which prints near $5,880 — are prize cards, not set cards, and are tracked separately (more on Zoro in the Zoro guide).
| # | Card | PSA 10 | 10s tracked | PSA 9 | Last 10 sale |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OP09-001 | Shanks — Alt Art | $70 | 3 | — | 2025-11-09 |
| OP09-001 | World Shanks | $22 | 1 | — | 2025-04-13 |
| OP09-004 | Shanks — Manga Rare | $2,640 | 7 | — | 2026-06-28 |
| OP09-004 | Shanks — SP | $384 | 2 | — | 2026-06-14 |
| OP09-004 | Shanks — Alt Art | $456 | 8 | — | 2026-03-15 |
| OP09-009 | SR Benn Beckman — Alt Art | $27 | 2 | — | 2026-05-24 |
| OP09-009 | Benn Beckman | $115 | 1 | — | 2026-05-03 |
| OP09-027 | Sabo — Alt Art · Winner | $187 | 4 | — | 2026-03-04 |
| OP09-042 | Buggy — Alt Art | $72 | 1 | — | 2025-08-31 |
| OP09-050 | Nami — Alt Art | $37 | 1 | — | 2025-08-31 |
| OP09-051 | Buggy — Manga Rare | $1,920 | 9 | $1,490 | 2026-05-31 |
| OP09-051 | Buggy — Alt Art | $103 | 3 | — | 2026-05-24 |
| OP09-061 | Monkey D. Luffy — Alt Art | $222 | 6 | $81 | 2026-05-10 |
| OP09-061 | World Monkey D. Luffy | $31 | 1 | — | 2025-04-13 |
| OP09-062 | Nico Robin — Alt Art | $101 | 2 | — | 2026-05-21 |
| OP09-069 | Trafalgar Law — Alt Art | $79 | 2 | — | 2026-04-07 |
| OP09-069 | Beginners Deck Party Trafalgar Law | $99 | 2 | — | 2026-06-15 |
| OP09-070 | Nami — Alt Art | $249 | 11 | — | 2026-06-22 |
| OP09-070 | Best Selection Volume 4 Nami | $285 | 2 | — | 2026-06-10 |
| OP09-072 | Franky — Alt Art | $40 | 2 | — | 2026-05-24 |
| OP09-076 | Roronoa Zoro — Alt Art | $168 | 1 | — | 2026-05-24 |
| OP09-076 | World Roronoa Zoro | $19 | 2 | — | 2025-04-20 |
| OP09-077 | Premium Best Selection Vol. 4 Gum-Gum Lightning | $44 | 3 | — | 2026-06-17 |
| OP09-093 | Marshall D. Teach — Manga Rare | $2,130 | 1 | — | 2026-03-15 |
| OP09-093 | Marshall D. Teach — Alt Art | $2,100 | 10 | — | 2026-04-15 |
| OP09-107 | Nico Robin — Alt Art | $150 | 2 | — | 2026-05-03 |
| OP09-118 | Gol D. Roger — Manga Rare | $18,600 | 1 | — | 2026-02-15 |
| OP09-118 | Gol D. Roger — SEC | $100 | 6 | — | 2026-05-03 |
| OP09-118 | Gol D. Roger — Alt Art | $250 | 2 | — | 2026-02-22 |
| OP09-118 | World Gol D. Roger | $36 | 2 | $16 | 2025-04-20 |
| OP09-119 | Monkey D. Luffy — Manga Rare | $4,800 | 8 | — | 2026-04-05 |
| OP09-119 | Monkey D Luffy — SEC | $132 | 13 | — | 2026-06-15 |
| OP09-119 | Monkey D. Luffy — SP | $903 | 2 | — | 2026-06-14 |
| OP09-119 | Monkey D. Luffy — Alt Art | $990 | 11 | — | 2026-03-29 |
| OP09-119 | World Monkey D. Luffy | $31 | 3 | — | 2026-02-15 |
What Are the Five OP09 Manga Rares Worth?
Roger $18,600, Luffy $4,800, Shanks $2,640, Blackbeard $2,130, Buggy $1,920. Five Manga Rares is the deepest chase class OP09's wave has seen — OP05 printed three — and they hold five of the set's six highest prices. One structural note: the SEC class collapsed in this set. OP09's secret rares trade at $95–$140 where OP05's Luffy SEC holds $780; in Emperors in the New World, the money skipped the SECs entirely and went to the Mangas.
The Luffy Manga (#OP09-119) is the set's most liquid big card: eight verified 10s climbing from $1,266 in August 2025 to a $5,700 print in February 2026, holding near $4,800 since. It trades at well under a third of its OP05 big brother — the discount for being the second Luffy Manga:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 8 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
The Shanks Manga (#OP09-004) has the cleanest uptrend in the set: eleven verified sales from $690 in April 2025 to a $3,000 print in June 2026, last trading at $2,760. The set tracker's Fanatics-only cut prices it at $2,640; the fuller tape below adds the licensed eBay feed's early history. Red-Hair's whole market is mapped in the Shanks guide:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 11 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
The Buggy Manga (#OP09-051) is the people's grail — nine verified 10s from $810 in September 2025 to $2,760 in May 2026, the genius-jester meme premium showing up in an actual order book:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 9 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
And then OP09's strangest price: the Blackbeard Alt Art (#OP09-093) trades within $30 of the Blackbeard Manga Rare — $2,100 on a ten-sale tape against $2,130on a single sale, and the alt art's April print ($2,490) is actually above the Manga's only comp. An alt art trading like a Manga Rare is the market telling you which Teach art it wants:
Real sold comps from CardboardSniper's pricing engine · 10 sales(eBay & Fanatics).
Are English or Japanese OP09 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 OP09 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— and OP09 is young even by that standard: the oldest verified comps in this tracker date to April 2025, so the entire graded history of the set fits in about fifteen months. What the bulls have: the biggest anime IP on earth, five Manga Rares with real verified uptrends (Shanks 4x, Buggy 3.4x, Luffy 3.8x inside a year), and a grail that just printed the highest verified price in the game's history. What the bears have: that grail is a single $18,600comp; order books above four figures are thin enough that one sale moves fair market value; and OP09 numbers already recycle through special products — 2nd Anniversary sets, The Best Vol.2, starter decks — each a separate, cheaper asset wearing the same card number. Size positions like it's venture, not bonds. Nothing here is financial advice.
OP09 FAQ
What is the most expensive OP09 card?
The Gol D. Roger Manga Rare #OP09-118 — $18,600 on its only verified PSA 10 sale, in February 2026. The base SEC of the same number trades at $100.
Is the Gol D. Roger Manga Rare the most expensive One Piece card?
On its last verified sale, yes — $18,600 is above every verified print of the OP05 Gear 5 Luffy Manga ($16,200 FMV, $17,600best print), the card that held the crown since 2023. The qualifier: the Roger price is a single comp against the Gear 5's thirteen-sale tape, and serialized tournament prize cards trade in a separate lane. The next Roger sale settles it.
Are Japanese OP09 cards worth less than English?
Yes — the set's Manga Rares carry a 2.2x to 2.9x English premium (Roger gaps 5.3x), and some alt arts trade 13x to 14x apart, because Japanese print runs are far larger. One Piece is the reverse of vintage Pokémon in this respect.
How many OP09 chase cards are there?
We track 35 variants with verified graded comps — Manga Rares, SECs, SPs, and alternate arts across English and Japanese printings. The complete PSA 10 chase run totals about $37,592, the largest of any One Piece set we track.
Keep going: the One Piece investing pillar ranks the game's top ten across all sets, the OP05 guide covers the set Roger just dethroned, the Luffy, Zoro, and Shanks guides go deep on the characters, 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.
