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One Piece Card Game rarities explained: L, SR, SEC, SP and what a parallel is

L, C, UC, R, SR and SEC are core One Piece marks. Composition varies by product; a parallel describes a printing, and the number of card types in a set is not a promise about one box.

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In short

A One Piece set is built from six tiers: L, C, UC, R, SR and SEC.
OP-04 lists 119 base card types, plus 5 Special Cards and 1 DON!! type. These are set checklist counts, not guaranteed hits per pack or box; check each product separately.
A parallel is not a new card: it is another print of the same number, which is why OP01-120 exists three times.
SP cards carry numbers from earlier sets, not from the set you pulled them in.
Treasure Rare reached the Japanese line in OP-16 (May 2026); before that it appeared only in English lists.

The six tiers

Rarity is printed beside the card number. The following six marks are core categories; official product lists can include other categories too. L is Leader — the card the deck is built around, face-up from the first turn, and the only tier with its own block of numbers at the front of the set. C, UC and R — Common, Uncommon, Rare — are the body of the set. SR is Super Rare. SEC is Secret Rare, and those are the last numbers in the list.

Set composition depends on the product. For example, OP-04 lists 6 Leaders, 45 Commons, 30 Uncommons, 26 Rares, 10 Super Rares and 2 Secret Rares — 119 base card types before Special Cards and DON!!. This is not a rule for every set. For example, OP-13 and OP-17 each have a third Secret Rare, OP-14 opened with seven Leaders, and the first three sets ran eight.

Extra Boosters are built differently. EB-03 and EB-04 have one Leader, 29 Commons, 21 Rares and 9 Super Rares — and no Uncommon tier at all.

What a parallel actually is

A parallel is another print of a card that already exists in the set. It keeps the number, the name and the text; what changes is the artwork, the finish, or both. That is why a set of 119 numbered cards can show 150 entries on the official list — the extra entries are parallels, not extra cards.

Three kinds turn up. Alternate art is a new illustration, usually by a named illustrator. Manga art incorporates imagery from the manga into the design; logo placement alone does not identify the printing. For further examples, see OP-05. Bandai also uses Super Parallel for special designs; these descriptions are not three separate rarity tiers.

The count moves a lot from set to set: 25 in OP-04, 45 in OP-13, 38 in OP-17. One number can carry more than one — OP01-120 Shanks exists as the regular Secret Rare and as two parallels, and OP08-118 Silvers Rayleigh exists in three versions.

SP cards, and why the number looks wrong

From OP-03 onward most sets include a handful of Special Cards, marked SP. They carry card numbers from earlier products, not from the set you opened. The five in Kingdoms of Intrigue are OP01-047, OP01-078, OP02-004, OP02-085 and OP02-099 — so an SP pulled from an OP-04 pack is, by its number, an OP-01 or OP-02 card.

Their treatment changes from set to set. The four in Pillars of Strength are all wanted-poster art; the six in Two Legends are printed in 和柄, the Japanese-pattern style.

Treasure Rare, the newest mark

TR is the recent arrival, and for a while it existed only on the English side: the English lists for 500 Years in the Future and Two Legends each carry a Treasure Rare with no Japanese counterpart at all. It reached the Japanese line with OP-16 on 30 May 2026, which has one, and OP-17 has one as well — OP17-033 Lucky Roux.

DON!! cards

DON!! is not a rarity, but it shares the pack. The official contents count it separately from the card types: most sets list a single DON!! type, OP-17 lists four.

Where to see them

Every set file in the magazine lists that set’s own breakdown, the parallels it carries and the cards the official page leads with. The set code is the fastest way in: type OP-13 or EB-03 into the search there.

Sources for the research corrections — checked 6 October 2026: Bandai OP-04 · Bandai OP-17 · Bandai PRB-01.

Side by side

Mark	Name	What it is	Number of types in example sets
L	Leader	Built around, face-up from the start; its own block at the front	6
C	Common	The base of the set	45
UC	Uncommon	The next step up	30
R	Rare		26
SR	Super Rare		10
SEC	Secret Rare	The last numbers in the list	2 (3 in OP-13 and OP-17)
SP	Special Card	Carries a number from an earlier set	4–10, varies
TR	Treasure Rare	In the Japanese line from OP-16	1
Parallel	—	Not a tier: another print of an existing number	25–45 per set

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Questions

Good to know

Is a parallel rarer than the card it copies?

A parallel keeps the rarity mark of the card it is a version of — an SR parallel is still marked SR. The official list records it as a separate entry, which is why a 119-card set can show 150 entries. PulloraX does not publish pull rates or card values.

How many cards are in a Japanese One Piece booster pack?

Check the exact product: OP-17 lists 6 cards per pack, while Premium Booster PRB-01 lists 10. A pack's card count does not guarantee a particular rarity.

Why does my SP card have a number from a different set?

Because that is how Special Cards work. They reprint a card from an earlier product and keep its original number, so an SP from an OP-04 pack can read OP01-047. The set you opened is still OP-04.

Do Extra Boosters use the same rarities?

Almost. EB-03 and EB-04 use L, C, R, SR and SEC, but they have no Uncommon tier: one Leader, 29 Commons, 21 Rares, 9 Super Rares and one or two Secret Rares.

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