2026 Dodgers One Piece Cards Are Already Reselling for $1,000

This is the Dodgers’ second collaboration with One Piece, following a 2025 giveaway that turned into one of the more remarkable collectible stories of the year. Last year’s card featured Luffy in a Dodgers uniform winding up to pitch. This year’s version has him mid-swing at the plate, distributed as a “Monkey D. Luffy DON!!” promo card alongside a co-branded straw hat with a chin strap.

The Dodgers originally capped the giveaway at 40,000 fans when they announced it back in June, then bumped that number to 52,000 as ticket demand climbed. The cheapest seats were going for close to $400 in the days leading up to the game, which tells you plenty about how much attention this promotion pulled outside the usual reseller crowd.

One Piece is riding a wave of mainstream popularity right now, and the Dodgers’ roster of Japanese stars led by Shohei Ohtani has made these crossover nights into must-attend events for fans who have never touched a trading card in their life.

None of that stopped things from getting ugly at the gates. Fans described lines stretching around the stadium hours before first pitch, with buyers offering upwards of $500 in cash for cards that hadn’t even been handed out yet.

Less than a day removed from the game, ungraded copies of this year’s card are trading hands for around $1,000, with outlier sales ranging up to $1,500. That’s more than triple what last year’s cards were selling for after the game.

The straw hat alone is a more modest flip, generally selling in the $60 to $75 range, though some listings have gone as high as $200 for fans chasing a matching set. This is still early data. Prices this soon after a giveaway tend to swing hard in both directions before settling, so treat anything you see today as a snapshot rather than a floor.

The comparison everyone is drawing is to last year’s card, and for good reason. That one launched around $300 to $350 right after the game, climbed past $1,500 within months, and now doesn’t trade in mint condition for less than $2,250. Graded PSA 10 copies have sold for $4,000 to $5,000 in recent weeks.

If you’re holding a card, you’ve got two real paths here, and both are defensible.

Option A: Sell Now This is the safer play. The market is hot, there are plenty of eyes on this release, and demand is being propped up by speculators who plan to grade their own copies down the road. At roughly $1,000, that’s already triple what last year’s card opened at post-game, and it comfortably covers the cost of a ticket with room to spare. There’s no shame in taking the guaranteed money.

Option B: Hold for Grading This is the riskier play, and it comes with real tradeoffs. Turning down guaranteed money now for a shot at more later always means betting on the market, and this particular market has more moving parts than most.

More collectors and resellers are in on it this time, which means fewer cards will end up tossed in a drawer and more will end up submitted for grading. Last year’s card proved it could hold and grow in value, so expect an even bigger wave of submissions this time around.

That said, the data is still encouraging. Last year’s card already has over 10,000 PSA 10s on record and is still trading for $4,000 to $5,000, so a bigger print run alone probably isn’t enough to break that pattern.

Just go in knowing that betting on a future grade is inherently riskier than pocketing today’s price. If you’re considering buying one of these cards raw to gamble on a future market, you’re taking an even bigger gamble.

We’re not saying it’s wrong, but that’s $1,000 out of your pocket with no guarantees of a good enough grade to justify the expense. Use your noodle.