Romance Dawn Set Guide: Full Card List, Chase Cards, Pull Rates, and Sealed Prices
Romance Dawn's full OP01 card list and numbering, estimated pull rates, the alternate-art chase leaders led by the Shanks secret, and the two-wave sealed market.
By Chase Society Desk
Romance Dawn is where the One Piece Card Game begins: the first English set, the one that introduced every leader the game was built on. It launched into demand that cleared shelves and never really let up, and the first English print run has been gone for a long time. The alternate-art parallels of Luffy, Zoro, and Shanks are still the cards people point to when they explain why they started collecting.
Every card in OP01, priced live, is on the full Romance Dawn card list. Bookmark it before you read on.
Here we cover the rest: how OP01 is numbered, which cards hold the value, the rough odds of pulling them, and where the sealed boxes sit, including why the two print waves trade so far apart.
Romance Dawn at a Glance
- Release date: December 2, 2022, the English debut of the One Piece Card Game
- The base set runs OP01-001 to OP01-121, climbing through Leader, Common, Uncommon, Rare, Super Rare, and Secret Rare
- Two Secret Rares cap the numbering: Shanks at OP01-120 and Yamato at OP01-121
- Alternate-art "parallel" versions share the base card numbers, and they are what collectors chase
- Printed in two English waves: a scarcer first run and a later reprint
- The headline chase: the alternate-art Shanks, OP01-120
This is the foundation set, and it behaves like one. The leaders introduced here, Luffy, Zoro, Law, Crocodile, Doflamingo, Kaido, became archetypes the next two years of sets kept feeding, so OP01's cards stayed in the conversation long after a first set normally fades. For the card list, that means the value piles onto a short list of names rather than spreading evenly across the rarity sheet.
The Romance Dawn Card List: How It's Structured
One Piece numbers a set as a single run, and OP01 is no exception: OP01-001 through OP01-121, with the rarity rising as the numbers climb.
The base run, 001 to 121. Leaders open the set, then the characters, events, and stages that fill out a deck, sorted up through the Rares and Super Rares. The two Secret Rares sit at the very top, Shanks at 120 and Yamato at 121.
The alternate-art parallels. This is the layer that decides the value table. Many cards were printed a second time with full-bleed alternate art, and each parallel carries the same number as its base card. A plain OP01-003 and its alternate-art parallel share a number and sit at opposite ends of the price sheet, so the number alone never tells you what a card is worth.
Every card, base and parallel, sits on the full interactive list with its current price.
Romance Dawn Chase Cards: What's Worth Money
The alternate-art Shanks, OP01-120 is the set's grail. It's a Secret Rare wearing the rarest treatment in OP01, the Red-Haired emperor who set Luffy's whole story moving, and it sits a long way clear of everything else here. The card that opened the game, on the character who opened the manga.
Behind it, the alternate-art leaders are the tier collectors actually fight over. The Luffy OP01-003 parallel leads them, with the Zoro OP01-001 and Law OP01-002 alt arts close behind. These are the faces of the game's first decks, painted full-bleed.
The rest of the parallel run fills in from there, the alt-art Nami, Doflamingo, and Crocodile among the names that hold the most.
The rest of the chase board:
Romance Dawn's Alt-Art Leaders Carry the Set
One Piece never leaned on subset galleries the way other games do. In OP01 the collecting hook is simpler: the alternate-art parallels, and above them the alt-art versions of the leaders.
A leader is the card a One Piece deck is built around, the one that sits face-up the whole game, so its alternate art is the piece a player most wants on the table. That demand is why the OP01 leader parallels, Luffy, Zoro, Law, share the top of the value table with the Shanks secret, and why they've held there since this was the only set in print.
Buy singles out of Romance Dawn and you're really buying parallels. Everything else is bulk by comparison.
Romance Dawn Pull Rates (Estimated)
Bandai has never published odds for One Piece packs, so the rates below are pieced together from community box breaks and should be read as rough, not exact.
- A booster box holds 24 packs
- Leader: roughly 1 in every 2 packs
- Rare or better: one in every pack
- Super Rare: about 1 in 3 to 4 packs, several per box
- Secret Rare: about 1 per box
- Alternate-art parallel: about 1 to 2 per box, and this is the slot the chase leaders come out of
The alternate-art Shanks sits at the far end of that last line, the rarest treatment in the set. Landing it from packs now means opening boxes that have themselves turned into expensive collectibles, which is most of why it leads Romance Dawn by the margin it does.
Romance Dawn Sealed: Booster Box and Pack Prices
Romance Dawn was printed in two English waves, and the market treats them as different products. The first wave, the blue-cased boxes, is the scarce one, and it trades at a steep premium over the white-cased reprint that arrived once Bandai caught up to demand. When you see Romance Dawn sealed quoted, the wave is the first thing to check, because the gap between the two is wide.
There's a broader pattern underneath that. A sealed pack from a closed set is a lottery ticket on a fixed prize pool, so its price tracks the value of what can come out of it. As the chase parallels climbed, loose Romance Dawn packs climbed with them, which is how a single first-set pack became one of the most expensive packs in the game.
Why Romance Dawn Endures
Romance Dawn would matter even if it had never gotten expensive.
It's the first set, and the name is deliberate. "Romance Dawn" is the title of the very first chapter of the One Piece manga, the morning Luffy sets out to sea, and Bandai used it for the card game's opening release on purpose. Everything in the game starts here.
Shanks carries the same weight. He's the pirate who gave Luffy the straw hat and the dream that runs the whole story, and OP01 hands him the rarest card in the set. The character and the card line up the way the best chases always do.
And the leaders, Luffy, Zoro, Law, Crocodile, Doflamingo, are the decks that defined the game's first year of play. Owning their alternate arts from the first set is about as close to a founding document as this hobby has.
Romance Dawn sits at the front of the One Piece run, ahead of Paramount War, Pillars of Strength, and everything since. First print, first leaders, first grail. It's the set the rest of the game gets measured against.
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