The Time of Battle Set Guide

Overview

The Time of Battle is the sixteenth main booster set, and Impel Down is its biggest type, on 39 base printings. Monkey.D.Luffy (blue and green) and Buggy (blue) lead the prisoners, Portgas.D.Ace leads the Whitebeard Pirates in red, Sengoku leads the Admirals in purple, Yamato leads Land of Wano in black, and Marshall.D.Teach (black and yellow) leads the Blackbeard Pirates.

It's the first 2026 main set with no cards from another set number in its base printings: all 119 are OP16-001 to OP16-119. It also has three Manga printings, the most of any main set this year until OP17, and all three are Admirals.

Cards and rarities

TCGplayer lists 159 printings in The Time of Battle. 119 are base printings, the version of each card number with no special art, and the other 40 are special printings of those numbers and the set's DON!! cards.

Special printings

The rarity counts above are the 119 base printings. Set completion in TurnZero HQ counts a set by its base printings and keeps every other printing as a separate tally, so finishing the set and chasing its special printings read as two separate goals. Alternate Art, SP and Manga, explained →

The Leaders

Six Leaders, two of them two colors.

Portgas.D.Ace

OP16-001

Red. Once per turn, gives Rush to a Monkey.D.Luffy or Whitebeard Pirates Character with 8000 power or more.

Monkey.D.Luffy

OP16-022

Blue and green, 4 Life. Sets up to 2 DON!! active when your only Characters are Impel Down.

Buggy

OP16-041

Blue. When one of your Impel Down Characters leaves the field, plays a Prisoner of Impel Down from your hand.

Sengoku

OP16-060

Purple. Return 8 active DON!! to play up to 3 Admirals with different names from your hand.

Yamato

OP16-079

Black. Land of Wano Characters played from your trash gain Rush.

Marshall.D.Teach

OP16-080

Black and yellow, 4 Life. Your Characters gain +1 cost on your opponent's turn, and trashing a Trigger card redirects an attack.

Cards worth knowing

Cards worth knowing, most of them for the Leaders above:

Edward.Newgate

OP16-003

Super Rare. On your turn your Leader gains Double Attack and +2000 power.

Portgas.D.Ace

OP16-118

Secret Rare. Your 8000-power Characters in hand get a +2000 counter, and he finds a Luffy or Whitebeard Pirates card when played or K.O.'d.

Marshall.D.Teach

OP16-119

Secret Rare. Adds a card to your Life when played; his Trigger negates a Character and K.O.s a cost 5 or less one.

Sakazuki

OP16-065

Super Rare. DON!! -1 gives an opponent's Character -6000 power until the end of their next turn.

The chase card: Kuzan

Kuzan (Manga)

OP16-063

Card number OP16-063

Rarity R

Printing Manga

Market price, September 30, 2026 $1,114.45

Three Manga Admirals sit at the top of The Time of Battle, and on September 30 they were separated by about $70. The Manga Kuzan led at $1,114.45, the Manga Sakazuki (OP16-065) was $2.62 behind at $1,111.83, and the Manga Borsalino (OP16-073) was $1,043.28. Any of the three is the set's best pull.

Kuzan is a Rare, and the gap to his other printings is the widest in the set: the base Kuzan was $0.13 and the Alternate Art $4.20.

Every Kuzan OP16-063 in The Time of Battle

Every printing of a card number plays the same and counts toward the same four in a deck. Only the art and the price differ, so check the art against the card's page before you value the one you pulled. Reading the card number and rarity →

Chase cards and prices

After the three Admirals the list drops quickly. The SP Ms. All Sunday is the only other printing above $150.

These are each printing's TCGplayer market price on September 30, 2026. Prices for a new set can move a long way in its first months, so treat them as a snapshot. Each card's page shows today's price and its 90-day chart. How One Piece card prices work →

Playing it

Ace and Newgate are built on 8000-power Characters. Ace's Leader gives the big ones Rush, the Secret Rare Ace raises their counter in your hand, and Newgate's SR reveals two of them for its -6000.

Sengoku asks for the most setup of any Leader this year: 8 active DON!! for up to three Admirals at once, and Kuzan, Sakazuki and Borsalino are all in the same set.

Tournament play adds Bandai's banned and restricted lists and, since April 2026, Standard rotation by the block number printed on each card. Check Bandai's current announcements before an event. Deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions