The World's Strongest Warriors Set Guide

Overview

The World's Strongest Warriors is the seventeenth main booster set. The Four Emperors is its biggest type, on 24 base printings, and five Leaders carry it: Edward.Newgate (red), Shanks (green), Kaido (purple), Monkey.D.Luffy (black) and Charlotte Linlin (yellow). The sixth, Rocks.D.Xebec (blue), leads the Rocks Pirates. Each Leader is a single color, one per color.

Elbaph is the other big type, on 21 base printings, and it ties into the black Luffy Leader through card cost. Several cards here care about Characters with a cost of 12 or more, and the Secret Rare Loki gains +12 cost on his own.

It ties OP14 for the most special printings of any main set this year, 60, including four Manga cards, two Super Alternate Arts, six Pandaman Art printings and a Super Leader Alternate Art of the Luffy Leader.

Cards and rarities

TCGplayer lists 179 printings in The World's Strongest Warriors. 119 are base printings, the version of each card number with no special art, and the other 60 are special printings of those numbers and the set's DON!! cards.

Special printings

The rarity counts above are the 119 base printings. Two of the 60 other printings, the Super Alternate Art Rocks.D.Xebec and an SP Monkey.D.Luffy (EB04-061), had no market price yet at the end of September. 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, one in each color, all with 5 Life.

Edward.Newgate

OP17-001

Red. Once per turn on your opponent's attack, trash a card from your hand for +4000 power on your Leader or a Character.

Shanks

OP17-020

Green. Trash a card or rest a DON!! to keep one of your opponent's rested Characters from becoming active next turn.

Rocks.D.Xebec

OP17-039

Blue. When attacking, trash a card and reveal your top card: if it's a Rocks Pirates card, draw 2.

Kaido

OP17-058

Purple. Once per turn, DON!! -1 gives an opponent's Character -2000 power, on your attack or theirs.

Monkey.D.Luffy

OP17-079

Black. All of your Characters with a cost of 12 or more gain Blocker.

Charlotte Linlin

OP17-099

Yellow. When attacking, trash a card and your opponent chooses: you add a card to your Life, or they trash a card from hand.

Cards worth knowing

The cards each Leader is built around:

Shanks

OP17-022

Super Rare. A cost 10 Rush that sets 2 DON!! active and rests all of your opponent's Characters.

Loki

OP17-119

Secret Rare. Gains +12 cost, which turns on Luffy's Blocker, and K.O.s your opponent's Characters with a total cost of 4 or less.

Rocks.D.Xebec

OP17-118

Secret Rare. Draws a card and plays two Rocks Pirates cards with different names and a total cost of 9 or less.

Charlotte Linlin

OP17-112

Super Rare. On your turn, your 4000-power Trigger Characters become 8000.

The chase card: Monkey.D.Luffy

Monkey.D.Luffy (Super Leader Alternate Art)

OP17-079

Card number OP17-079

Rarity L

Printing Super Leader Alternate Art

Market price, September 30, 2026 $1,776.47

The Super Leader Alternate Art Luffy is the most valuable printing in any 2026 One Piece set, at $1,776.47 on September 30. It's the only Super Leader Alternate Art in a 2026 set, and its art sets a full-color Luffy against a black-and-white manga panel.

The Manga Shanks (OP17-022) was the runner-up at $1,502.19, and two more Manga cards, Edward.Newgate and Kaido, were above $1,000. The same Luffy Leader is $0.20 as a base printing and $51.51 as an Alternate Art.

Every Monkey.D.Luffy OP17-079 in The World's Strongest Warriors

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

OP17 has five printings above $800, more than any other 2026 set: the Super Leader Luffy and all four Manga cards.

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

The black Luffy Leader does nothing until you have a Character with a cost of 12 or more, so a Luffy deck counts its big cards. Loki is the easiest way there, since his +12 makes him an 18-cost Blocker, and the SR Luffy (OP17-093) and Usopp (OP17-080) both get better once one is in play.

Rocks.D.Xebec is the deck-type Leader of the set: his draw only works when your top card is a Rocks Pirates card, so a Rocks deck wants as many of them as it can fit.

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