One Piece Gol D. Roger Gold Manga Art — Emperors in the New World (2024), Japanese, PSA 10

Within Bandai's One Piece Card Game, the 2024 release Emperors in the New World turns to the founding figure of Eiichiro Oda's mythology: Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King whose execution opens the story and whose legacy drives it forward. The card is issued in the Gold Manga Art treatment, the most exclusive presentation of that character in the modern game.

Roger's standing in the narrative is unmatched — he is the absent centre around which the entire search for the One Piece is organised — and cards built around him sit at the centre of demand from both players and collectors of the franchise. The print run of this edition is described as limited, a factor that has kept high-grade examples scarce relative to the growth in interest the game has seen since its launch.

Presented here in Japanese, the card has been encapsulated and graded by PSA at 10 GEM MINT, the maximum on the scale, with centering, corners, edges and surface all reported at the top of the range. For a modern card to reach that level, and to be preserved in a sealed holder from the outset, is precisely what separates a desirable example from an attainable one.