Art & Collectibles
These will be worth something, someday
Art & Collectibles
And the limited edition swag is selling out
Round1 capped its One Piece Card Game promo registration at 9,000 spots
Eligible fans can buy up to 10 exclusive promo cards for $200 during the pickup period
Presale listings are selling for around $300 right now, with bundles of ten packs going for $3,000
The One Piece hype train just continues rolling, and resellers are taking in profits at every stop. Round 1 is kicking off a summer collaboration with One Piece with exclusive promo cards as the headliner. Only 9,000 people will have an opportunity to buy the cards, and they’re hitting eBay at prices that will make your head spin.
Round1 and One Piece are running the entertainment chain’s first simultaneous collaboration across Japan and the US, and the trading cards are the headliner.
Bandai created 10 brand new One Piece Card Game promo designs exclusively for this event, each one built around a Straw Hat Pirate in a Round1 themed illustration, think Luffy bowling or Zoro at the arcade counter rather than anything pulled from the anime.
Getting access wasn’t as simple as walking into a store. Round1 ran a strict first-come, first-served registration process capped at only 9,000 eligible participants. That window opened July 1 and closed out last night.
Anyone who made the cut can buy up to 10 cards between July 18 and July 24 at their designated location, but only after preloading $20 onto a Round1 Game Card for each one, capping out at $200 for the full run. Everything has to happen in a single visit, and Round1 has been explicit that all purchases are final.
Production numbers have not been disclosed, but Round 1 has warned that there are no guarantees and eligible buyer will be able to pick up all 10 cards. If the store you visit has run out of stock, you are SOL.
Confirmation emails went out today, and the presale market fired up almost instantly. Individual packs are already selling for around $300 on eBay, and resellers who registered for the full 10 card allotment are listing complete sets in the neighborhood of $3,000.
Those are active asking prices on a product that doesn’t physically exist in anyone’s hands yet, so treat them as early demand signals rather than a locked-in floor. Prices on presale collectibles like this can move once real product starts changing hands and grading data comes in.
Even so, the math is hard to ignore. A registrant who spending $200 on the max allotment is theoretically sitting on roughly $2,500 in profit after eBay’s fees. That’s an astounding return on investment for something as simple as registering online and driving over to the store to pick up your cards.
If this timeline sounds familiar, it should. Resellers have watched One Piece crossover promos outperform expectations again and again this year.
We kicked off 2026 with the One Piece College Basketball US Tour, and it’s been less than a week since the Dodgers’ second One Piece promo cards dropped and began selling for over $1,000.
One Piece is in the middle of a genuine mainstream moment right now, between a record manga print run and a hit live action adaptation, and every promo tied to it is finding a hungrier audience than the last one. No reseller who’s been paying attention should be sleeping on this franchise.
Round1’s collaboration also isn’t done yet. A second wave of the broader One Piece x Round1 event is set to launch in September, though it hasn’t been confirmed whether that wave includes a restock of these same promo cards or a fresh batch of merchandise and prizes. Given how fast this first registration sold out and how quickly the presale market moved, resellers should be ready to jump the moment any card news drops in September rather than waiting to see how it plays out.
If you landed a registration, this is about as clean a flip as reselling gets: a $200 cost basis against presale demand pushing $3,000. That said, remember Round 1’s language around the release. You are not guaranteed to purchase all 10 cards if the store you visit has run out of stock, so be cautious putting up a presale listing.
Art & Collectibles
These will be worth something, someday
Art & Collectibles
And the limited edition swag is selling out