One Piece TCG Banlist: 6 Banned Cards Since Oct 12 (2026)

TL;DR: Since October 12, 2026, six cards are banned outright: Charlotte Pudding (OP06-047), Nami (OP03-040), Gecko Moria (OP06-086), Trafalgar Law (ST10-001), Reject (OP06-116), and OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, added with every Parallel (alt-art) printing. There are 0 Restricted cards and 3 banned pairs: Monkey.D.Luffy (OP11-040) with Charlotte Katakuri (OP11-067) or Charlotte Linlin (OP08-069), plus I Re-Quasar Helllp!! (OP07-115) with Borsalino (EB04-058). Check the event date before registering a deck. Updated October 12, 2026: OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk is now banned, effective October 12, 2026 per Bandai's September 24 notice with every Parallel (alt-art) printing included, which brings the list to six banned cards.

What's on the One Piece TCG banlist right now? (quick answer)

Six cards are fully banned as of October 12, meaning zero copies are legal in a tournament deck: Charlotte Pudding (OP06-047), Nami (OP03-040), Gecko Moria (OP06-086), Trafalgar Law (ST10-001), Reject (OP06-116), and OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, added on October 12. No cards sit in the lighter Restricted category, which would cap a card at one copy. Three specific card pairs are also banned from sharing a deck even though each half is individually legal elsewhere.

Key Takeaways

• 5 cards were banned outright through October 11, 2026: Charlotte Pudding (OP06-047), Nami (OP03-040), Gecko Moria (OP06-086), Trafalgar Law (ST10-001), Reject (OP06-116)
• 6 cards banned since October 12, 2026, after OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk was added
• 0 Restricted cards currently, that category exists but Bandai isn't using it at the moment
• 3 banned pairs: Luffy (OP11-040) + Katakuri (OP11-067), Luffy (OP11-040) + Linlin (OP08-069), and I Re-Quasar Helllp!! (OP07-115) + Borsalino (EB04-058)
• OP-17's August launch did not change the active list; OP14-020 was added separately, effective October 12, 2026
• Bandai reviews the list around Championship Season 1 and the World Championship, not every set release
• A banned card can't be played at all; a banned pair means each card is fine alone, just not together

Overview: Why One Piece TCG Has a Banlist at All

Six colors and dozens of viable leaders means some card combinations end up warping the format faster than a slower rotation cycle can fix on its own. Bandai's banlist is the tool for that: a short, officially-maintained list of cards and card pairs that are too strong to leave untouched, reviewed a couple of times a year rather than left to rotation alone. It sits separate from Standard format legality (which set is legal has nothing to do with whether a specific card within a legal set got banned).

Image: Bandai official card list (OP03-040). Nami's Leader printing is one of the six cards on the current banlist, banned since August 30, 2025.

Step-by-Step: How to Check if Your Deck Is Legal

1. Check for banned cards. Scan your 50-card list against the six banned cards: Charlotte Pudding (OP06-047), Nami (OP03-040), Gecko Moria (OP06-086), Trafalgar Law (ST10-001), Reject (OP06-116), and OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, including every Parallel (alt-art) printing, which Bandai's notice counts as the same banned card. If any banned card appears, even as a single copy, the deck isn't tournament-legal until it is removed.

2. Check for banned pairs. This step catches decks that pass step 1 but still fail. If your leader is Monkey.D.Luffy (OP11-040), confirm your list doesn't also run Charlotte Katakuri (OP11-067) or Charlotte Linlin (OP08-069), both are individually legal, just not alongside that specific leader. Separately, I Re-Quasar Helllp!! (OP07-115) can't share a deck with Borsalino (EB04-058) regardless of leader.

3. Confirm there's nothing on the Restricted list. There isn't one right now, so this step is a formality today, but it's worth checking directly since Bandai can add Restricted cards at any update. A Restricted card caps you at one copy instead of banning it outright, so a deck running two or more copies of a newly-Restricted card would fail this check even though the card itself stays legal.

4. Verify against the live official page, not a cached list. Bandai's restriction page is the source of truth, and its effective date controls sanctioned events. Check the page again rather than trusting a list you bookmarked before October 12, 2026.

GODEEPER: Legality also depends on which sets are Standard-legal right now, separate from the banlist entirely. One Piece TCG Standard Format Guide 2026 →

Why Banned Pairs Exist Instead of Just Banning One Card

The banned-pair mechanism is a deliberate design choice, not a workaround. Banning Charlotte Katakuri outright would remove her from every deck that plays her, including builds where she isn't remotely a problem. Bandai's banned-pair tool instead targets the specific combination that overperformed, Luffy plus Katakuri or Luffy plus Linlin, while leaving Katakuri and Linlin completely untouched in every other leader's deck.

That precision matters more in a game with six colors and dozens of viable leaders than it would in a two-player-resource format with fewer moving parts. A flat ban is a blunt tool for a problem that's really about one specific interaction, and Bandai has now used the pair mechanism for three pairs across two notices (the two Luffy pairs from August 30, 2025, and the I Re-Quasar Helllp!! and Borsalino pair from April 10, 2026) rather than reaching for a full ban each time.

The tradeoff is that banned pairs are easier to miss. A player who only checks "is this card banned" and gets a clean answer for Katakuri individually can still build an illegal deck by pairing her with the wrong leader. That's exactly why step 2 above exists as its own check, not folded into step 1.

The September 24 update and the October 12 effective date

Bandai's September 24, 2026 notice added OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk to the Banned Cards section effective October 12, 2026. The notice says that combinations involving the Leader became more powerful than anticipated and that the card significantly restricts the viability of Leaders with the Slash attribute. Those are Bandai's stated reasons; this guide does not add a separate metagame theory.

Image: Bandai's September 24, 2026 restriction notice. OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk is banned, with every Parallel printing, from October 12, 2026.

Two details in the notice matter for deck lists. First, Bandai marks the ban as covering Parallel cards (alt-art printings), so every printing of OP14-020 is out, not just the base card. Second, Bandai says it plans to distribute a replacement Leader with new text, P-163 Dracule Mihawk, at future events. The notice gives no release date for P-163, so this guide does not treat it as available yet.

Bandai gave 18 days of notice this time (September 24 for October 12). The two earlier banned-card announcements gave 16 days (March 16 for April 1, 2026, adding Charlotte Pudding) and 10 days (August 20 for August 30, 2025, adding Nami). Here is when each currently banned card took effect, per Bandai's notices and its history page:

Bandai's restriction page listed five banned cards, zero Restricted cards, and three banned pairs through October 11, and OP-17's August launch did not itself alter those entries. Since October 12, the active list has six banned cards, with OP14-020 part of the banned-card check. Bandai may revise the page again, so always confirm the effective date against the official notice.

Players on r/OnePieceTCG read the notice the same way Bandai framed it. One reply in the subreddit's main banlist thread put it plainly: "Design-wise, it’s problematic too, cos so many fan-favourite characters and leaders are Slash type."

GODEEPER: Curious how OP-17's leaders are actually performing without any banlist intervention so far? One Piece TCG OP-17 OP-16 Crossover Format →

Tips and Common Mistakes When Checking the Banlist

Trusting a screenshot or an old article instead of the live page. The list has changed before, most recently when OP14-020 was added on October 12. A banlist guide, including this one, is a snapshot: check the date it claims to reflect before trusting it for an event next week.

Only checking the banned-cards list and skipping banned pairs. A deck with zero individually-banned cards can still be illegal if it pairs Luffy with the wrong support piece. Run both checks every time.

Assuming a new set automatically means a banlist update. OP-17 did not change the active list at launch, but Bandai later announced the OP14-020 change separately. Read the effective date instead of assuming a set-release timeline.

Image: Bandai official card list (ST10-001). Trafalgar Law's starter-deck Leader printing rounds out the current banned-cards list.

Our take

The banlist is short, but it now moves on a fixed rhythm: Bandai's last three banned-card notices came 10 to 18 days before they took effect, and its own policy text says revisions usually follow Championship Season 1 in Japan and the World Championship. The October 12 change is the one that matters this month. If you play a Green Mihawk list, treat October 11 as its last legal day and do not plan around P-163 until Bandai gives it a date. If you play anything else, the one check people skip is the banned pairs, so run step 2 every time you change your Leader.

Correction (October 23, 2026): an earlier version of the FAQ below said Bandai had not published a reason for the OP03-040 Nami ban. Bandai's August 20, 2025 notice does give one, now summarized in that answer. The Related Reading card link for the OP11 Nami Leader also pointed to OP16-091, a Black Nami Character; it now shows OP11-041.

Related Reading

• One Piece TCG Counter Cards: The Complete Rules: Another core rules system worth knowing cold before your next event.
• One Piece TCG Deck Building Guide: How to build a 50-card list from scratch, banlist-legal by default if you're using current cards.
• One Piece TCG Nami Counter Guide: The matchup breakdown for the current OP11-041 Blue/Yellow Nami OP11-041OP11-041Shop on TCGplayer leader, a different printing from the banned OP03 one above.
• One Piece TCG Locals Etiquette Guide: What a judge actually checks at a locals event, deck legality included.

Frequently Asked Questions

What cards are currently banned in One Piece TCG? As of October 12, 2026, the six active banned cards are Charlotte Pudding (OP06-047), Nami (OP03-040), Gecko Moria (OP06-086), Trafalgar Law (ST10-001), Reject (OP06-116), and OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, added effective October 12. Banned means zero copies are legal in a tournament deck.

Are there any restricted cards in One Piece TCG right now? No. The official restriction page lists zero Restricted cards as of this writing. Restricted would cap a card at one copy per deck rather than banning it outright; Bandai isn't using that category at the moment.

What is a banned pair in One Piece TCG? Two specific cards that can't both appear in the same deck, even though each is legal on its own elsewhere. There are three right now: Luffy (OP11-040) with either Katakuri (OP11-067) or Linlin (OP08-069), and I Re-Quasar Helllp!! (OP07-115) with Borsalino (EB04-058).

What changed on October 12, 2026? OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk became a Banned Card effective October 12, 2026, and Bandai's notice includes Parallel (alt-art) printings. The count rose from five banned cards through October 11 to six. Bandai plans to distribute a replacement Leader, P-163 Dracule Mihawk, at future events.

Did OP-17 change the One Piece TCG banlist? OP-17's August launch did not change the list that was active before October 12. Bandai's September 24 notice separately added OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, effective October 12, 2026.

How often does Bandai update the One Piece TCG banlist? Roughly twice a year, tied to the tournament calendar: once after Japan's Championship Season 1 concludes, and once after the World Championship. Recent notices came 10 to 18 days before the effective date: August 20 for August 30, 2025, March 16 for April 1, 2026, and September 24 for October 12, 2026.

Why was Nami (OP03-040) banned? Bandai's August 20, 2025 notice says the deck built around OP03-040 Nami had become far stronger than intended as new sets released and diverged from the gameplay Bandai wants, and that it would constrict the development of Blue draw cards and reduce Leader diversity. The ban took effect August 30, 2025, with a replacement Leader, P-117 Nami, planned for future events. Separately, the official card page marks Nami Block 1, and Bandai's April 2026 to March 2027 Standard example excludes Block 1, but rotation and banning are separate rules.

References

• ONE PIECE CARD GAME Banned/Restricted Cards, official page: Bandai's active list, with six banned cards since October 12, zero Restricted cards, and three banned pairs.
• Banned/Restricted Cards effective from October 12, 2026, official detail: Bandai's September 24 notice adding OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk.
• History of Banned/Restricted Cards, official page: effective dates for Gecko Moria (April 1, 2025), Trafalgar Law (September 6, 2024), and Reject (June 21, 2024).
• Banned/Restricted Cards effective from April 1, 2026, official notice: the March 16, 2026 notice adding Charlotte Pudding.
• Banned/Restricted Cards effective from August 30, 2025, official notice: the August 20, 2025 notice adding Nami.
• OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, official card list: official card number, color, Block icon, and printed text.
• OP03-040 Nami, official card list: official card number, Leader designation, and Block 1 icon.
• Overview of Cards Subject to Block Number Updates, official page: Standard Block rules and the current list of cards with updated Block Numbers.
• Introduction of the Block Number System, official notice: the April 2026 to March 2027 example that excludes Block 1 cards.
• Banned/Restricted Cards effective from April 10, 2026, onepiece.gg: reproduction of the notice that added the I Re-Quasar Helllp!! and Borsalino banned pair.
• Banned and Restricted Cards, onepiece.gg: community-maintained mirror, cross-checked against the official page for this article.