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PSA's Value tiers are paused and Beckett is Express-only. As of October 2026, CGC Bulk at $17 is the lowest per-card fee still open, but it needs 25 cards and has the longest wait. Here is how the other four graders compare.
Four official One Piece Card Game releases land in six weeks, from EB-05 Heroines Edition vol.2 on Oct. 30 to OP-18 The Dominance of God on Nov. 20. The dates and MSRP are confirmed. The chase lists are not, so preorder premiums are bets on cards Bandai hasn't listed yet.
October 12 is Wizards' next Banned and Restricted date, and a Commander change that day is possible but has not been announced. Here is what past bans, unban rumors and no-change results did to prices, and what that means if you plan to sell, hold or buy.
A sold price on screen isn't always the price someone paid. This guide covers how to build a small set of clean, matching, recent sales: handling Best Offers, wrong parallels, mixed grades and outliers that look like shill bids.
PSA's backlog fell to 8.2 million units on October 6, but the company is still 3.2 million units above its 5 million target and has not set a date for Value grading to return. Here is what PSA has committed to, what Standard costs compared with each old Value tier, and how to decide whether to grade now or wait.
Bandai banned the OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk Leader effective October 12, 2026. Play copies sell for under a dollar, the Alternate Art sits near $41 raw, and the PSA promo trades around $64 raw. Here is how to decide whether to sell, hold or grade.
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