What the Last Round1 Promo Run Is Worth Now, and What It Means for This One
One Piece and Round1 are three weeks into a new US-Japan collab with ten capped promo cards on offer through October 17. We looked at what happened to the last Round1 promo run from 2022, and four years of pricing data is a useful reference point.
Round1 and One Piece are three weeks into a new collaboration that longtime collectors will recognize as familiar territory. From July 18 through October 17, Straw Hat-themed makeovers at 59 participating US locations (and 100+ in Japan) come with a shot at one of ten event-exclusive promo cards, capped at the first 9,000 US reservations. It is the kind of scarcity-gated giveaway the game has run before, and we actually have real data on how the last one turned out.
Back in September 2022, Round1 ran its first One Piece promo tie-in: ten cards built around the Straw Hat crew, distributed the same way, reservation-gated, capped, mostly common and uncommon rarities. Four years later, those cards are not bulk. [[card:0c9a928b-3e90-4ed6-8326-e20145459ce5]] the 2022 Luffy promo (OP16-095, R rarity) is currently priced around $636 AUD. [[card:4a6bc11c-b05b-41ad-94ad-afac87236864]] the Nami promo (ST29-008, common rarity) sits near $344 AUD. Zoro's 2022 promo, [[card:22724f34-df52-4503-b4be-12b7c4755d05]] PRB02-006, trades around $304 AUD, [[card:a04a12cd-a395-42b5-b9f3-e6b353e34d66]] Robin's common-rarity promo holds near $271 AUD, and even the lower end of the run, [[card:55b08b13-bb4a-46d9-a1ef-93d8b890d962]] Usopp's uncommon promo, still sits around $56 AUD. For cards that started life as a free giveaway for making a dinner reservation, that is a real collector premium four years out, and the fact that even the cheapest name in the set held value says the whole run aged well, not just the chase card.
Worth being precise about what actually drove that. These are capped-distribution promos with no reprint path, spread across a full crew rather than concentrated on one character, and tied to a theme people still like looking at years later. That combination, hard cap, no reprint, broad character spread, is the same shape as the 2026 run. It is also the same shape as plenty of con-exclusives and store-anniversary packs that never went anywhere, so the pattern here is a precedent worth knowing, not a guarantee.
The 2026 promos themselves are not in our system yet. Final card numbers and images have not shown up through official channels as of this writing, so there is nothing to price. That is normal mid-run: distribution is still happening at Round1 locations through mid-October, and secondary listings typically do not appear in volume until a capped print run is confirmed closed. We will start tracking the new cards the moment they surface in daily reports.
What we are watching: whether the 2026 run keeps the same crew-wide spread the 2022 set used, since that variety, not just a single Luffy chase card, is part of what let names like Nami and Robin hold value years out. We are also watching how the 9,000-unit US cap compares to how many of the 2022 cards actually made it to market, since we do not have a confirmed print number for the original run, a meaningfully tighter cap this time would change the scarcity math. Once the first 2026 Round1 promos start trading, we will have a same-generation baseline instead of a four-year-old one to work from.