One Piece Card Game Sets OP-17 for August With Elbaf in Focus
The World’s Strongest Warriors enters pre-release on August 21 before a wider August 28 launch, anchoring the game’s fourth-anniversary window.
Bandai has dated the English release of One Piece Card Game’s OP-17 booster, The World’s Strongest Warriors, placing its pre-release on August 21 and its general launch one week later on August 28, 2026. The set arrives as the game enters its fourth-anniversary period and shifts the official product focus toward the Four Emperors and Elbaf.
An August two-step
The official product page establishes a clear two-stage launch. Local game stores can begin pre-release activity on August 21, while the wider release follows on August 28. Bandai lists a suggested retail price of $4.99 per pack. The company also says cards from the product are legal from the pre-release date at participating local game stores, giving organized players a concrete date to check with their venue.
That timing connects OP-17 directly to the game’s anniversary programming. Bandai’s separate fourth-anniversary event begins on the same day as the pre-release, creating a coordinated window for players to open the set, test new cards and enter store-level play. Event registration and format details are handled separately, so buyers should not assume that every retailer will run a pre-release.
What Bandai has confirmed
Bandai describes OP-17 as a move toward the Four Emperors and the new island of Elbaf. It does not yet provide a complete public card list on the product page, so the announcement should be read as a release-and-theme reveal rather than a full set breakdown. The published configuration is 131 plus four card types in total, with Bandai warning that random collation can produce duplicates and may make a complete set difficult to assemble.
The official page also links the six July starter decks, ST-31 through ST-36, as related products. That does not establish which cards will combine best with OP-17, but it shows how Bandai is presenting the late-summer product line: ready-to-play decks first, followed by a main booster designed to expand collections and deck options.
What players can act on now
For players, the most important detail is the one-week gap between pre-release and retail launch. It creates an early testing window before broader availability. For collectors, the announced set size gives a first measure of the checklist’s scope, while the lack of a full card list means rarity distribution, chase cards and complete-set difficulty should remain open questions until Bandai publishes more detail.
Context
Why it matters
OP-17 is the next major English booster and the anchor of the game’s fourth-anniversary window. The published dates support event planning, but card-level conclusions should wait for the complete official list.
Primary source
What this report is based on
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