Quick Verdict
A mail-in-only One Piece Card Game deck built on a great idea — the three brothers as Marines — where almost all of the foil sits on the Ace & Sabo & Luffy cards themselves. Most of the deck is plain paper, including the Yamato card I bought it for.
What is this deck?
This start deck — named スタートデッキ エース＆サボ＆ルフィ on the box — was never sold in shops. It was the all-applicant service item in Weekly Shonen Jump’s 2026 New Year combined issues 4·5: readers applied by postcard or app between December 22, 2025 and January 13, 2026, and paid a ¥1,650 applicant fee covering tax, domestic shipping, and handling. Planning is credited to Shueisha and manufacturing to Bandai on the box.
Inside is a ready-to-play 50-card deck across 14 types, one leader card, ten DON!! cards, and three index cards. The box itself is small — barely bigger than a playing-card box, which makes the stack of 61 cards inside feel dense.
What is the concept?
Two versions of the brothers. The character card shows them as children in the Goa Kingdom, a new-illustration reprint of OP13-007. The leader and the three solo cards show the “what if Ace, Sabo, and Luffy had joined the Marines” idea — art that began as a special project in ONE PIECE magazine. The leader puts the grown brothers in Marine coats with Garp looming behind them, and Sabo, Ace, and Luffy each get a Marine character card of their own.
 OP13-007 · the brothers as children |  P-126 · Marine Sabo |  P-128 · Marine Ace |  P-132 · Marine Luffy |
Which cards are foil?
Fewer than the box art suggests. The embossed, foil-heavy treatment is on the two Ace & Sabo & Luffy cards: both copies of the OP13-007 character card are the parallel version, and the P-122 leader is a parallel too. The Marine Sabo, Ace, and Luffy come as four copies each — but only two of each four are the foil SR-spec version. The other two are plain.
Everything else — Edward Newgate, Curly Dadan, Koby, Shanks, Makino, Garp, Dragon, Yamato, and the event card — is unprocessed paper. No foil, no texture. Held as a stack, the plain cards are most of what you feel.
What are all 14 types?
OP13-007 Ace & Sabo & Luffy (character) ×2 — parallel P-122 Ace & Sabo & Luffy (leader) ×1 — parallel P-123 Edward Newgate ×4 P-124 Curly Dadan ×4 P-125 Koby ×4 P-126 Sabo ×4 (2 foil) P-127 Shanks ×4 P-128 Portgas D. Ace ×4 (2 foil) P-129 Makino ×4 P-130 Monkey D. Garp ×4 P-131 Monkey D. Dragon ×4 P-132 Monkey D. Luffy ×4 (2 foil) P-133 Yamato ×4 P-134 Dine-and-Dash Repeat Offender (event) ×4
 P-123 · Edward Newgate |  P-124 · Curly Dadan |  P-125 · Koby |  P-127 · Shanks |
 P-129 · Makino |  P-130 · Monkey D. Garp |  P-131 · Monkey D. Dragon |  P-134 · Event |
What about Yamato?
Yamato is why I bought this deck. The illustration is bright and busy — and the card itself is plain paper, all four copies, with no finish of any kind. Of every card in the box, that is the one that deflated me most.
Does it play well?
I don’t play the game, so I can’t judge the deck’s strength — this is a collector’s review only. Judged that way, it is hard not to be disappointed: I bought it in a hurry, at a premium, before I understood what the service deck actually contained. A lot of people waited months for this deck, and the uneven finish from card to card is what stings.
Counting the cards that actually shine, I ran out of fingers on one hand — almost everything that sparkles here is the three brothers.
Facts and How to Check
Product: ONE PIECE Card Game Start Deck Ace & Sabo & Luffy (スタートデッキ エース＆サボ＆ルフィ) Route: Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 combined issues 4·5 all-applicant service (not retail) Application window: December 22, 2025 – January 13, 2026 Applicant fee: ¥1,650 (tax, domestic shipping, and handling included) Contents: 50-card deck (14 types), 1 leader card, 10 DON!! cards, 3 index cards Planning: Shueisha; Manufacturer: Bandai; Made in Japan; Ages 9+ No JAN printed on the box (mail-in service item; checked on my copy)
How to check: the official One Piece Card Game topics page for this service (onepiece-cardgame.com/topics/116.php) lists the fee, the application window, and the full deck list with copy counts and which cards are SR-spec. The concept’s origin in ONE PIECE magazine is in the one-piece.com news article for the Jump issue.
Tags: One Piece Card Game, Start Deck, Ace Sabo Luffy, Shonen Jump, Promo Cards, Yamato
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