OP-17 after the Mihawk ban: Rocks leads, EB-05 legal 6 Nov

Dracule Mihawk (OP14-020) has been banned in the One Piece Card Game since 12 Oct 2026, and Blue Rocks from OP-17 now leads the English format: 9 paper event wins in results collected for 13–18 Oct, and a 53.2% win rate online. Chase-card prices, including the Rocks.D.Xebec alt art, follow further down.

It covers what changed in the meta, in the chase cards and in OP-17 products, what EB-05 and OP-18 add, and where boosters and boxes stand in Poland, Germany and the US. The conclusions apply to the whole format, not to a single country.

Bandai banned Mihawk from 12 Oct 2026 and promises a replacement

The ban covers OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk including all parallel versions, takes effect on 12 Oct 2026 and was announced on 24 Sep 2026. Bandai says some card combinations grew stronger than the designers intended, and that Mihawk sharply limits Leaders with the Slash attribute.

The notice names a replacement Leader, P-163 Dracule Mihawk, to be handed out at future events, without a date. Bandai also says it usually reviews the list after Championship Season 1 in Japan and after the World Championship, but may act sooner.

Data: Bandai's official notice of 24 Sep 2026 (en.onepiece-cardgame.com), Shonen TCG's banlist summary of 23 Oct 2026, checked 3 Nov 2026.

Mihawk is the sixth entry among banned cards. The table shows the full state at the start of November, including the pairs that cannot share a deck.

No cards are on the Restricted list (one copy maximum). For comparison, two entries were added earlier in 2026, Pudding and the Borsalino pair, so Mihawk is the third change this year.

Blue Rocks took Mihawk's place: 9 paper wins since the ban

In English-format paper play, Blue Rocks (OP17-039) wins most often after the ban, with 11 of 31 collected top lists and 9 event wins. Shonen TCG's review of 21 Oct 2026 covers Store Championships and Standard Battles from 13 to 18 Oct.

Online the picture is more even: across three OP17.5 events on Limitless Play (12–15 Oct, 149 players), Rocks had 25 players at 48-49 (49%), while Red/Green Luffy & Ace had 23 players at 70-49 (59%). The author notes that the tiers are personal judgment and that several Leaders have only 1 to 3 pilots.

Data: Shonen TCG, "OP-17 Meta Tier List", as of 21 Oct 2026; online: Limitless Play, best-of-one, 12–15 Oct 2026; paper: top lists from One Piece Top Decks, 13–18 Oct 2026.

A snapshot from 12 Oct 2026 shows how much room Mihawk took up just before the ban.

The 65.0% for Mihawk looks unusually high and comes from a single tracker, so we read it as an order of magnitude rather than a firm figure. A second tracker (OnePieceDB, 571 results over 92 days) puts Mihawk at 19.1%, Nico Robin at 12.1% and Rocks at 10.4%, but its window reaches past the ban and does not isolate the ban's effect.

Data: Shonen TCG, "OP-17 One-Month Meta Report", tracker of 12 Oct 2026; OnePieceDB, as of 3 Nov 2026 (92 days).

Luffy & Ace has the best record, Rocks has the most players

Across 13 online events after the ban, Red/Green Luffy & Ace (ST30-001) stands at 121-91, a 57.1% win rate, while Blue Rocks sits at 53.2% with 65 decks. That puts Rocks about 4 percentage points above its first post-ban week (49%), though the samples differ.

For players on a budget, the Luffy & Ace Leader comes in the ST30 Starter Deck, which makes it a cheaper way in than Rocks, which needs OP-17 cards. It also has 22 mirror matches, which points to how widely it is played.

• Strong after the ban. Luffy & Ace 57.1% (212 games), Yellow Enel 53.4%, Blue Rocks 53.2%, Purple/Yellow Rosinante 52.6%, Red/Black Sabo 52.5%, Black Luffy 52.1%.
• Weak numbers. Blue/Yellow Boa Hancock is at 39.4% with 20 pilots; Purple Kaido and Purple/Yellow Pudding also lose more than they win.
• Worth watching. Purple/Yellow Nico Robin: 8 pilots and 15-19, although it was rated highly before the ban.

Data: Shonen TCG, "Best One Piece TCG Decks Right Now", stats of 28 Oct 2026, online events 12–27 Oct 2026. Values for decks with a handful of pilots are rough guides.

EB-05 and OP-18 could reshuffle the tiers again, but only from 6 Nov

EB-05 cards become tournament legal seven days after release, on 6 Nov 2026, and OP-18 cards on 27 Nov 2026. That follows the rule on Bandai's product page and a Bounty guide of 30 Oct 2026; a local store may allow new cards from its own pre-release date.

We covered dates and prices of both products in a separate article on EB-05 and OP-18, so here we stay with what they mean for play. EB-05 has 77 cards (75 plus 2 types) and Bandai lists packs at $4.99. OP-18 "The Dominance of God" releases on 20 Nov 2026, and the official store release event runs from 20 Nov to 17 Dec.

In early simulator results, the Green/Yellow Nico Robin deck from EB-05 (Leader EB05-010) went 26-28-3 overall and 10-18 against Buggy, Sabo, Luffy & Ace and Blue Rocks, but 15-10 against all other Leaders.

Data: Shonen TCG, "EB-05 Nico Robin Deck Guide", 13 lists from five online events on Limitless Play, 19–22 Oct 2026, simulation of 100,000 games per list; EB-05 product page on en.onepiece-cardgame.com, as of 3 Nov 2026.

Takeaway: EB-05's Robin does not break the meta so far, and the data comes from a small sample. The Heroines Battle Vol.2 event (6 Nov to 6 Dec 2026 according to onepiece.gg, officially early November to early December) requires a Leader from an official list of 27 characters and is more a casual format than a test of deck strength.

1. 6 Nov 2026. EB-05 cards become tournament legal and Heroines Battle Vol.2 starts in stores.
2. 20 Nov 2026. OP-18 releases and the store release event begins.
3. 27 Nov 2026. OP-18 cards become tournament legal.

Rocks.D.Xebec alt art (US/TCGplayer) is down 41% since 1 Sep, and 57% from its peak

The alternate art of Rocks.D.Xebec (OP17-118) sold in US sales on TCGplayer for $48.98 on 1 Sep 2026, rose to $67.48 on 26 Sep and stood at $29.00 on 31 Oct: minus 40.8% from early September and minus 57.0% from the peak. The peak falls two days after the Mihawk ban was announced, which fits the hypothesis that players bought Rocks ahead of its rise.

That is a hypothesis, not proof: supply from opened boxes adds to the ban effect, and individual sales on the same day can differ by tens of percent. On eBay, sales in the same period ranged from $8.50 to $42.42, so the spread is wide. PriceCharting listed an ungraded price of $29.99 on 3 Nov 2026, and TCGplayer $32.59.

Data: PriceCharting, Rocks.D.Xebec OP17-118 alternate art page, sales recorded on TCGplayer, 1 Sep–31 Oct 2026, as of 3 Nov 2026.

The set's most expensive cards had these prices on 13 Oct 2026 according to Shonen TCG (TCGplayer Market Price):

The Super Alternate Art price rests on a single sale and is therefore not a trend. The standard Rocks Leader (OP17-039) costs about $0.18 in the same overview and its alt art $41.31: what matters for play is how many copies you need, not rarity.

And the banned Mihawk? We cannot give reliable prices for its alt art: we only found aggregators without a clear date, with values from $36.90 to $69.18. How the ban moved that card we leave open.

Data: Shonen TCG, "OP-17 Complete Card List", TCGplayer Market Price of 13 Oct 2026; card count: 119 numbered cards, 39 parallel versions and 11 SP reprints, 169 prints in total.

OP-17 boosters and boxes in PL, DE and the US: language drives the gap

An English OP-17 booster costs from 43.99 zł in Poland, from €12.99 in Germany and from $14.95 in the US among in-stock offers, and the English box from 999.00 zł in Poland, from €299.99 in Germany (one shop only, as of 3 Nov 2026) and from $310.00 in the US. The Japanese edition costs roughly half as much: JP box from 499.99 zł (Poland), €119.99 (Germany) and $127.88 (US).

Data: CardPulse, in-stock offers for OP-17 in shops from Poland, Germany and the US, 3 Nov 2026, lowest in-stock offer in each case. We read EN/JP from the offer titles because the language field was empty. The three currencies are not converted.

Regardless of country, the EN box works out cheaper per booster than a single EN booster: by 5.4% (Poland), 3.8% (Germany) and 13.6% (US). The Japanese edition costs 40–53% of the English one: JP boosters are 52% (Poland), 46% (Germany) and 53% (US) of the EN booster price, and the JP box is 50% (Poland), 40% (Germany) and 41% (US) of the EN box.

For reference: a pack cost $4.99 at release on 28 Aug 2026, and the TCGplayer Market Price of the box fell from $307.26 (13 Oct) to $297.30 (3 Nov), a drop of 3.2%. A single booster is at $9.10 on TCGplayer, 82% above the release price. The TCGplayer product values come from CardPulse product data of 3 Nov 2026.

Differences between countries also depend on how many shops carry stock at all. On 3 Nov, 10 shops in Poland had in-stock OP-17 offers, 13 in the US and 6 in Germany; in Germany only one EN box was in stock; the shop lists it together with boosters as a special product.

What to do with this: players, collectors and sealed buyers

For players two dates matter: 6 Nov 2026, when EB-05 becomes legal, and 27 Nov 2026 for OP-18; before bigger purchases it pays to wait for the results of those days. That matches Shonen TCG's advice to hold off on large spending until EB-05 is legal and a few regionals have been played.

1. Check the banlist. The current state is at en.onepiece-cardgame.com/news/restriction.html; parallel versions are banned too.
2. Compare language and format. The Japanese edition costs about half, but an organizer may allow only English cards, so read the event rules first.
3. Pick a deck by budget. Luffy & Ace starts with the ST30 Starter Deck, while Rocks builds on OP-17 cards: the list that won on 2 Sep (before the ban) ran four copies each of Edward Newgate (OP17-040) and Rocks.D.Xebec (OP17-118).
4. Set a price alert. The Rocks OP17-118 example shows a price can fall by more than half within about five weeks after a spike. CardPulse alerts cover sealed products such as boosters and boxes, not single cards.

Tip: do not read a card's price as a signal of its strength. Shonen TCG's authors point out that market price says nothing about tournament strength.

For collectors, what matters is that Bandai announced a replacement, P-163 Dracule Mihawk, so the banned card stays in a collection and only its role changes. For sealed buyers, $310.00, 999.00 zł or €299.99 at a single shop in Germany are one-day snapshots, not a forecast. This is not investment advice: prices can move in either direction.

How to read meta statistics after a ban

The numbers on the post-ban meta come from different time windows and sources, so comparing them one to one is misleading. Three questions help judge what a number is worth.

• How big is the sample? Rocks had 25 players online in the first week and 65 decks over the whole period; Kalgara stands at 61.2% on only 10 decks, which says little.
• Where was it played? Online on Limitless Play means best-of-one on a simulator, while paper Store Championships have different rules and player pools. Rocks wins more in paper, Luffy & Ace has the better record online.
• What is inside the window? A 92-day tracker includes the time before the ban, and Shonen TCG removed events with EB-05 cards (such as the Versus Cup of 22 Oct) from its own stats to avoid mixing card pools.

That is why we give a direction, not a ranking: after the ban two decks lead (Rocks and Luffy & Ace), followed by several Leaders in the 52–53% range. Differences of one percentage point between Enel, Rocks and Rosinante are within measurement noise.

The reason for the ban also matters for future lists. Bandai stresses Mihawk's effect on Slash Leaders and Leader diversity, not just its win rate, so further changes could target cards that restrict other decks rather than only the most successful ones. That is our reading of the notice, not a prediction of another ban.

Data: Shonen TCG (online stats 12–27 Oct 2026, as of 28 Oct 2026), Bandai's official notice of 24 Sep 2026, OnePieceDB (571 results over 92 days).

What we still do not know about the OP-17 changes

Three things remain open: the result of the Monterrey Regional on 24 Oct 2026, the exact date of P-163 Mihawk, and how stable Rocks stays after EB-05. We found no verifiable source for Monterrey (only videos of single rounds), so we do not describe it.

EB-05's legality is also reported differently: Bandai says seven days after release, so 6 Nov, while one tracker mentions 30 Oct for some online events. We follow Bandai's rule and note that a local store may start earlier.

Nor does the ban settle whether Rocks stays on top. The sources use different windows (3, 13 and 92 days), so we compare 49%, 53.2% and 57.1% with care. We will recheck prices and results after 27 Nov 2026, when both new releases are legal.

Want to check current OP-17 prices in three countries? See the OP-17 box prices and single booster prices, and set a price alert for a box or booster. Dates are in the One Piece release calendar, you can count your own cards in the collection and the binder, the OP-17 set guide has the set details, and the One Piece home page shows all offers. How to read code, language and product type in listings is covered in our guide to One Piece listings.