[Update 4 Apr 2025] BANDAI has announced further information regarding how rotation will work.

From April 2026 to March 2027, cards from Blocks 2 to 5 will be tournament-legal. The rotation after that will begin in April 2027 when cards from Block 2 will be rotated out; cards from Blocks 3 to 6 will be tournament-legal. As such, cards from the four most recent blocks will be permitted for use in ONE PIECE Card Game tournaments.

BANDAI has announced that for the first time in the history of the ONE PIECE Card Game, rotation will be taking effect. The first-ever ONE PIECE Card Game tournament rotation will be introduced in April 2026.

Under the upcoming rotation, only cards from Blocks 2 and 3—cards from Awakening of the New Era [OP-05] and any newer sets—will be tournament-legal, not counting banned cards. Block 1 cards will no longer be permitted to be included in a tournament deck.

When this rotation takes effect, all cards from Kingdoms of Intrigue [OP-04] and any older sets will be banned from tournament play. Notably, this also means that the Blue Doflamingo deck—one of the leading decks in the current metagame—will be “retired” from tournament play.

The rotation has likely been timed to coincide with the first-ever simultaneous global release of a ONE PIECE Card Game set; this is also coming in 2026.

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