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In the One Piece Card Game a parallel and its base print share the same card number, and the price gap between them can be a hundredfold. CardLens is a One Piece card scanner app for iPhone that reads the art and the finish, not just the number, matches Japanese and English prints, and shows a value range built on recent eBay sales with a condition grade.
Roronoa Zoro
Romance Dawn · OP01-001 · Leader · Parallel
Sample result. Values move with the market; the app shows the current range when you scan.
Same number, different card
OP01-001 is a Zoro leader in the base print and a Zoro leader in the parallel, and only one of them is a money card. CardLens reports the finish with the number so the value range belongs to the card you hold.
Set, card number such as OP01-016, card type, rarity, and finish: base, parallel, special parallel, manga art, or treasure rare. The language is part of the match, because Japanese prints of the same number sell in a different market from the English ones.
The range comes from what copies with the same number and finish have been selling for on eBay, and the sales are one tap away. In a young game where a card's price can halve or double between two sets, that matters.
A raw estimate on the Near Mint to Damaged scale, and a read of the label on PSA, BGS, and CGC slabs. Full-art parallels show edge wear against their dark borders, so the step from Near Mint to Lightly Played is visible and priced.
How a One Piece card gets identified
Bandai's card numbering is simple and its variant system is not. The scanner reads the number first and then the things the number does not say.
Every card carries a code in the bottom-right corner: OP01-001 is card 001 of booster set OP01, Romance Dawn. Starter decks use ST codes, extra boosters use EB, premium boosters use PRB, and promos carry a P prefix. The code names the card and its set, and the rarity letter beside it, C through SEC plus L for leaders, names the printed rarity.
What the code does not name is the finish. A base rare and its parallel print the same OP01-001, so the scanner matches on the artwork and the foil pattern after it reads the number.
A parallel is the alternate-art version of a card, usually with full-bleed art and a foil finish, at the same number as the base print. Later sets added special parallels with their own frames, manga-art cards that reproduce a panel from the manga, and treasure rares. These are the pulls collectors open boxes for, and they are the ones a number-only lookup gets wrong.
CardLens reports the finish next to the number. A Nami OP01-016 in manga art, a print that came in the ONE PIECE CARD THE BEST premium booster two years after the base rare, is priced against manga-art sales rather than the base rare.
The game launched in Japan in July 2022 and in English that December. For its first years Japanese sets released months ahead of the English versions, and Bandai has since moved to near-simultaneous worldwide releases. Japanese and English prints still sell in separate markets at separate prices. The catalog holds them as distinct entries, and the match names the language.
Japanese promos, including tournament packs and store-event cards, have their own entries too.
Leader cards are printed horizontally, have their own rarity letter, and sit at the front of each set's numbering. DON!! cards come in the standard print and in event and promo versions with alternate art. Tournament prize cards and winner cards carry the highest prices in the game and are matched as their own prints.
If your card came from an event rather than a booster, the match will say which promo it is.
In the catalog
Two prints the scanner tells apart from their base versions.
Roronoa ZoroOP01-001 · Leader · Parallel
NamiOP01-016 · Manga art · PRB-01How it works
Full-art parallels read best with the lamp a little to one side so the foil shows and the art stays sharp. Keep the whole card, corner code included, in the frame.
Check the code in the bottom-right corner against the match, then check that the finish on screen matches the card in your hand: base, parallel, SP, or manga art.
The match says whether the print is base, parallel, or manga art, and the range comes from sales of that print. Save it and the vault total updates.
Before the next set drops
Full-art parallels and manga arts read best with the light off to one side so the foil shows and the art stays sharp. The finish is part of the match, and a clear finish means the right range.
Check the code in the corner and the finish label on screen against the card in your hand. Once both agree, the eBay sales behind the range are sales of that print.
Japanese prints sit in the catalog as their own entries with the language in the match, so a Japanese parallel is never priced as the English one.
Questions
CardLens scans a One Piece card from a photo on iPhone, matches the number and the finish, and shows a value range built on recent eBay sales. It covers English and Japanese prints and saves cards to a collection.
Scan the card and CardLens shows a value range built on recent eBay sales of the same number and finish, with the sales listed. It works as a price checker for English and Japanese prints.
It has to. A parallel, special parallel, manga art, or treasure rare is a separate entry in the catalog, matched by its art and foil and priced apart from the base print at the same number.
Japanese prints are in the catalog as their own entries, and the match names the language so a Japanese card is not priced as the English print.
Leaders, DON!! cards including promo versions, and event cards are in the catalog and matched like any other card.
Saved cards keep their print, condition grade, and value range, and the vault shows a total across every game. Reopen a card and its range refreshes from newer sales.
Free on the App Store
Free on the App Store. Boosters, starter decks, and promos from Romance Dawn on, with parallels and Japanese prints matched.