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The Dodgers confirmed a One Piece TCG promo card will be distributed at One Piece Night on July 2
Resellers turned massive profits on last years giveaways, with cards reselling for $400 after the game
Tickets are currently starting at $376, up sharply from the $272 floor when the event was first announced
One of the biggest flips of 2025 is getting a reprise. The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced another collaboration with One Piece, and they’re giving away another Monkey D. Luffy promo card. Based on the scenes we saw last year, we expect to see these cards reselling for hundreds after the game.
The Dodgers announced today that the July 2 One Piece Night will include a co-branded One Piece TCG promo card, distributed to the first 40,000 fans through the gates while supplies last. Dodger Stadium seats roughly 56,000, so not everyone in attendance will receive one.
The card is a “Don” card based on the key art created for this year’s Dodgers x Toei Animation collaboration. Details beyond that are limited for now, but the distribution model mirrors last year’s Luffy card exactly: show up early, be in the first 40,000, and it’s yours.
If you’ve been following One Piece promo cards at all in the past year, you already know what’s at stake here.
Last year’s Dodgers One Piece Night produced a Monkey D. Luffy alternate art promo card that was handed out under similar conditions. Raw copies were trading around $1,500 within months of the game. Highly graded copies went much further: a Beckett Pristine 10 Black Label sold for $15,000 in November.
One Piece is also enjoying unprecedented mainstream popularity right now. The One Piece college basketball promotion that launched earlier this year had fans and resellers fighting over a promo card with a significantly higher print run that still ended up with a high-triple digit ceiling on eBay
This year’s Dodgers X One Piece promo card might not reach the same heights as last year’s, but we’d be shocked if they weren’t reselling for $200 to $300 after the game. If you already bought tickets, you stand to watch MLB’s back-to-back World Series champions and make money while you’re at it.
The cheapest available seats are currently sitting at $376, and given that the card was just confirmed today, that floor is unlikely to hold. This is a game that will sell out. Anyone paying current prices needs a card to break even, and the card is first-come, first-serve for the first 40,000 fans in a 56,000-seat stadium. Getting there early matters.
If you grabbed tickets early, you’re sitting in great shape. The card confirmation validates the thesis, and your cost basis gives you real margin to work with.
If you didn’t, here’s our take: buying tickets for nearly $400 in hopes of flipping the card is a risky endeavor, at least if you’re purely focused on profit. However, we will remind you that graded examples of last year’s promo card were reselling for up to $1,500 at a time, and it’s entirely possible we’ll see that pattern repeat. This is a risky, long-term gamble, but one worth considering. DYOR.
Trading Cards
Just wait until they get graded
Soccer
Here's a way to recoup some of your ticket costs