Nike × One Piece: the One Piece Card Game cards explained (P-099 Luffy and the three DON!!)

Published 4 September 2026 · Last updated: 4 September 2026. We update this post as Bandai and Nike confirm details.

• The essentials
• The four cards
• The 34-card set
• How to get them
• Madrid and Spain
• Calendar
• The sneakers
• Will we have them?
• FAQ
• Sources

The four cards, one by one

Before we go card by card, a note on the images: all the official ones carry a SAMPLE watermark across the illustration. That's standard for Bandai reveals, which show cards this way before printing, and it doesn't mean they're fake or that the final design will change. The same happened with the 29th anniversary P-159 and with any promo Bandai shows early.

1. P-099 "Monkey D. Luffy", Nike alternate art

It's the only Character card in the batch and the one everyone is looking at. Luffy appears in Gear 5, drawn in black and white line art, like a manga page, over a background of swirls that is the Gomu Gomu fruit pattern. In the top left, over the art, sits the 「ナイキ」 logo (Nike in katakana) with the swoosh, and an English speech bubble that sums up the whole campaign: "IN OUR WORLD... DEVIL FRUITS ARE NIKES." In the bottom right, the Straw Hat Jolly Roger. And our favorite detail: photo cutouts of the sole and upper of the purple Air Max Plus, the Gomu Gomu pair, come in from the edges as if the manga paper had been torn and the real sneaker were peeking through. The credits are printed on the side: NOT FOR SALE, © Nike, Inc., BANDAI MADE IN JAPAN and the Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha copyright.

This is the first fact many people are getting wrong. Nike's Japanese page says it in a footnote: this card has the same effect as the already released P-099 "Monkey D. Luffy", and only the illustration changes. In other words, it isn't a new card: it's an alternate art of an existing promo, with the same number and the same text. The P-099 had in fact already been printed as a 2025 meetup (交流会) promo and in the 4th Anniversary! Four Emperors Treasure Get Campaign Pack, so the Nike one is one more version of the same number. For play it's exactly the same card: if you already run Luffy in a purple deck, you gain nothing competitively with this one. It's pure collecting and alternate art, which is exactly what makes it interesting, because the Nike drawing can only be obtained this way.

As for the NOT FOR SALE printed on the card: it's Bandai's way of marking a card as a promotional giveaway rather than a product sold in stores. Plenty of One Piece Card Game promo cards that come with events, magazines or campaigns carry it. It doesn't affect tournament legality (it's a P-099 with the same text), but it does affect how it circulates: you'll never see it in a distributor's catalog, only changing hands between people.

The three DON!! cards: what no press release tells you

A quick note on naming, because everyone calls them something different: on the cards and in Nike's campaign the fruits use their Japanese names (Gomu Gomu no Mi, Mera Mera no Mi, Ope Ope no Mi). In the English manga they're the Gum-Gum Fruit, the Flame-Flame Fruit and the Op-Op Fruit. Here we use the Japanese name, which is what you'll see printed, with the English one in brackets.

The three DON!! cards share the same design system, and we got this by zooming into Bandai's official image at 400%, not from a press release. Two elements repeat across all three cards, and in both the execution changes with the fruit:

• The "Tn AIR" logo takes the shape of a devil fruit. The Air Max Plus Tn AIR logo sits in the top right corner of each DON!! and changes silhouette: a circle with swirls on the Gomu Gomu, a flame on the Mera Mera and a heart on the Ope Ope. Attached to each badge is a red circle with the swoosh, like the tongue label on the sneaker.
• The Jolly Rogers have the swoosh built in. The bottom band of each DON!! shows the flag of the crew tied to that fruit, and on all three the Nike swoosh is worked into the skull, in a different spot each time.

2. DON!! "Gomu Gomu" (Gomu Gomu no Mi, the "Gum-Gum Fruit")

Card type

DON!! Card

Illustration

Purple Air Max Plus with lime green tongue and laces, seen from above, over purple swirls

Tn AIR badge

Purple circle filled with the Gomu Gomu no Mi swirls, with the red swoosh circle attached

Jolly Roger

Straw Hat, with the swoosh over the skull

Game text

DON!! card / Your turn +1000

The Tn AIR badge here is a purple circle filled with the swirls typical of the Gomu Gomu no Mi, with the red swoosh circle next to it, and the Straw Hat Jolly Roger has the swoosh over the skull. It's the same idea as Luffy's speech bubble, in logo form. The game text is the standard text of any DON!!, so in a deck it works like a normal DON!!. This is also the only DON!! handed out at the Tokyo pop-up.

3. DON!! "Mera Mera" (Mera Mera no Mi, the "Flame-Flame Fruit")

Card type

DON!! Card

Illustration

Orange and yellow Air Max Plus in flames, with jade green details, over a fire background

Tn AIR badge

Orange flame silhouette with the fruit's stem on top, and the red swoosh circle attached

Jolly Roger

Ace / Spade Pirates, with the swoosh as a mustache

Ace's card. The sneaker is literally on fire over a fire background, and the Tn AIR turns into an orange flame with the fruit's stem poking out at the top. On the bottom band, the Spade Pirates Jolly Roger (the skull with the crest of flames and the grin) has the swoosh as a mustache. Each DON!! carries the flag of the crew tied to its fruit, and that consistency is what makes the three work as a set instead of three loose cards.

4. DON!! "Ope Ope" (Ope Ope no Mi, the "Op-Op Fruit")

Card type

DON!! Card

Illustration

Red and pink Air Max Plus with green, red swirl pattern, over a red and white background

Tn AIR badge

Maroon heart silhouette, with the red swoosh circle attached

Jolly Roger

Heart Pirates, with the swoosh replacing the grin

Law's card, and for us the finest of the three. The Tn AIR logo becomes a maroon heart, a double nod to the fruit and to the Heart Pirates, and on its Jolly Roger the swoosh directly replaces the skull's grin. If the deduction we explain further down is right, this would be the DON!! handed out in Madrid.

What exactly the 34-card set is

You'll know the Premium Card Collection name if you follow the One Piece Card Game Premium Card Collections: they're the collector boxes Bandai uses to package special promos. In this case, the Japanese digital Weekly Shonen Jump campaign talks about "four special promo cards / complete set (1 set of 34 cards)". And here's the mistake several outlets keep repeating: it isn't "34 cards: 10 DON!! and 4 Characters". The correct breakdown is this.

The numbers aren't random, and this is what you miss if you get the count wrong. A One Piece Card Game deck is played with 10 DON!! cards, so each set has exactly one full DON!! deck per fruit: you can build a whole deck with the Gomu Gomu DON!!, another with the Mera Mera ones and another with the Ope Ope ones. And the 4 copies of Luffy are the maximum number of copies of a single card a deck allows. Bandai designed the set so a player can use all of it, not just frame it.

The three ways to get them

First, the correct timeline, because that's being misreported too. Nike announced the collection in its newsroom on 23 August 2026. The cards weren't in that announcement: Nike added them on 2 September, with an editor's note that says so word for word. And on 3 September the digital Weekly Shonen Jump campaign went live in Japan, which is what made the news blow up in the game's community. So no, Nike didn't "announce the cards on 3 September": it updated its release on the 2nd, and the Jump route came out on the 3rd.

Route 1: the Tokyo pop-up "Dr. B'S RESEARCH LAB"

• Where: THE HALL, Harajuku Quest B1F, 1-13-14 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo.
• When: 4, 5 and 6 September 2026, 09:00 to 18:00.
• Access: by prior lottery only. Entries ran from 23 August at 19:30 to 26 August at 23:59 (Japan time) and are now closed.
• Footwear: one card per pair bought, and it's the Gomu Gomu DON!! (a single design).
• Apparel and caps: one card per transaction, and it's the P-099 Luffy. Nike is clear on this: no matter how many garments or caps you buy, it's one card per purchase.

Mind the fine print: in Tokyo the three DON!! aren't all handed out, only the Gomu Gomu one. And the Luffy doesn't come with sneakers, it comes with apparel. Anyone leaving the pop-up with the P-099 and a DON!! made two separate purchases.

Route 2: digital Weekly Shonen Jump subscribers (Japan only)

This is the mass route and the one that explains the 34-card set. It's an 「応募者全員サービス」, a service for all applicants: anyone who meets the conditions and applies gets it. The conditions, according to Inside and collabo-cafe:

• You must subscribe to the digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump on Jump+ or Zebrack. You can start the subscription during the period and it still counts.
• Application period: applications ran from 18 September 2026 at 13:00 to 18 October 2026 at 23:58, Japan time, and are now closed.
• One application per person and one set at most.
• It isn't entirely free: the applicant pays an additional fee (what collabo-cafe describes as "別途、応募者負担金が必要").
• How to apply was published on 18 September at 13:00 on the Weekly Shonen Jump website, One Piece's social channels and the Jump+ app.

It's the same as with the Shonen Jump P-159: a promo tied to the Japanese magazine that you can't order normally from outside Japan. You need a subscription to the Japanese digital edition, and it's one set per person. That's why what reaches Europe through this route is single sets from private sellers, not boxes.

Route 3: the rest of the world, which is where we come in

This is the Nike sentence to read with a magnifying glass, because it's the only one that describes what happens outside Japan:

"For the remaining Nike and partner retail launch dates outside of Japan, a Nike x One Piece collaboration Premium Card Collection 'DON!! Card' (English language version) will be distributed with in-person footwear purchases and will feature a design matching the respective colorway."

Nike Newsroom, release updated on 2 September 2026

In practice, that means:

• Outside Japan, the English DON!! was handed out. The P-099 Luffy isn't in that sentence.
• Only with a footwear purchase and only in person ("in-person"). Apparel and caps don't count here.
• The DON!! design matches the colorway that store sells. One store, one sneaker, one DON!!.
• The global online launch on SNKRS on 25 September wasn't described as including a card.

And in Spain: Madrid, Footdistrict, 19 September

This one was confirmed by Nike in its calendar: the collection reached Footdistrict in Madrid on 19 September 2026, the same day as Patta in Amsterdam, Offspring in London, Afew in Düsseldorf, One Block Down in Milan and SNS in Stockholm. It's the only Spanish store on the list, so in Spain it was the place to get one of these cards without going through Japan.

On the sales format (raffle, queue, reservation): as of 4 September, Footdistrict had no landing page or raffle published for this launch. A short-run drop would normally go by raffle, but that was for the store to announce, not us. What we do know from Nike is that the card is tied to an in-person footwear purchase: one DON!! per pair, and not with apparel or caps.

And on 25 September, the global SNKRS launch: it was the online route, the one most people in Spain would try. But Nike talked about "in-person footwear purchases" and the SNKRS drop wasn't described as including a card. As of 4 September, nothing backed up getting a DON!! in the box with an online order.

Full collection calendar

Nike's list of dates and stores, as published. Outside Japan: an English DON!! in each store's colorway, only with an in-person sneaker purchase.

The sneakers and the rest of the collection

The cards are the focus of this post, but it helps to know what they come attached to. The collection is built around three Nike Air Max Plus SP with an upper that's completely redesigned and exclusive to the collection, one per devil fruit. The retail price in Japan is ¥27,500 including tax according to nike.com/jp; in the US a price of $180 has been reported. The euro price isn't confirmed: as of 4 September 2026 it doesn't appear on nike.com/es, so we don't give one.

A note on sources, because it matters here: the distribution inside Japan (pop-up, SNKRS and Nike Umeda) is published by nike.com/jp. That the Ope Ope goes to the US and Europe on 19 September and the Mera Mera to Asia and Mexico on 12 September isn't something Nike says: it comes from specialist sneaker press. That's why we give Madrid as a deduction and not as a fact.

Nick Remlinger, GM of Energy Gaming at Nike, described the starting point like this:

"We were inspired by the superhuman abilities that are unleashed when ONE PIECE characters eat the Devil Fruits, much like the feeling an athlete has when they put on a pair of Nikes. We then started reimagining the beloved Air Max Plus in a way that fans of the silhouette have never seen before." He adds that more surprises are coming as the collection comes to life.

Nick Remlinger, GM, Energy Gaming, Nike (Nike Newsroom)

The rest of the collection (football jerseys per fruit, a vest inspired by the devil fruit curse, Solo Swoosh QS tees, a pop-up exclusive tee and Fly Cap AW84 caps) features real manga panels and reworks panels in the style of classic Nike ads. These are the apparel and caps that come with the P-099 at the Tokyo pop-up. Outside that pop-up, the only known route to that card is the 34-card digital Weekly Shonen Jump set, which includes four copies.

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Meanwhile, if you'd rather play than hunt promos, the game keeps moving: we've covered OP-17 The World's Strongest Warriors, and the store has One Piece Card Game in Japanese and English. Ships from Spain. 24 - 72 h within Spain, 3 - 8 business days to the rest of Europe.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Everything we state in this post comes from these sources. Anything not in them is marked as a deduction or as unconfirmed.

1. Nike Newsroom: "Nike's One Piece Collection Transforms Imagination Into Motion for Adventurers Everywhere" (23 August 2026, updated on 2 September 2026 with the Premium Card Collection information).
2. Nike Japan: official One Piece collection page, with the card distribution conditions, the footnote on the P-099 and the yen retail prices.
3. Nike SNKRS: Nike × One Piece launch details.
4. Inside (inside-games.jp), 3 September 2026: campaign for digital Weekly Shonen Jump subscribers and the 34-card set breakdown.
5. ONE PIECE.com (Shueisha): official note on the Nike collaboration (23 August 2026, about the collection; it doesn't cover the cards).
6. Soleretriever: "Where to Buy the Nike x One Piece Trading Cards" (3 September 2026): colorway distribution by region, the dollar price and the unconfirmed mention of tournament distribution.
7. ONE PIECE CARD GAME: official event calendar, where we checked the dates of BCG Fest Utrecht and BCG Fest Dallas.

Editorial notes: the US retail price ($180) comes from specialist sneaker press, not from Nike; the euro price isn't verified. Card images © Bandai / Shueisha / Eiichiro Oda; product photos © Nike, Inc. One Piece trademarks and characters © Eiichiro Oda / Shueisha · One Piece Card Game © Bandai. This post will be updated as Nike, Bandai and Footdistrict publish new details.