Analysis · July 2026
The second Dodgers card is not the first Dodgers card.
They’re priced within ten percent of each other. Here is what separates them.
In 2025, Bandai and the Los Angeles Dodgers ran a One Piece night. Everyone who walked through the gate got a Monkey.D.Luffy card. It was the first-ever MLB × One Piece crossover, and it went on to sell for four figures.
In 2026 they did it again. This time the giveaway was a DON!! card. It appeared on eBay almost immediately at $800–$950.
People are buying it at close to first-Dodgers money. Here are the two cards, next to each other.
| 2025 · Luffy | 2026 · DON!! | |
|---|---|---|
| Distributed at the gate | ~40,000+ | ~52,000 |
| Graded — PSA | 13,435 | too early |
| PSA 10s | 11,145 | too early |
| Card type | Character card | DON!! |
| First of its kind? | Yes — first MLB × One Piece | No |
| Asking, July 2026 | $900 – $2,000 | $800 – $950 |
The 2025 card was never scarce
Eleven thousand PSA 10s. Roughly a third of every card handed out that night was submitted for grading. Nobody threw these away. Nobody put one in a bike spoke.
Which means the price was never held up by rarity. It was held up by a story — the first MLB crossover in the game’s history, on a night people remember.
That’s not a criticism. Stories are a legitimate reason a collectible is worth something; most grails are made of them. But it is worth knowing which thing you are buying, because a price supported by a story behaves very differently from a price supported by supply.
And the 2026 card did not inherit the story
More were handed out — about twelve thousand more.
More of them will survive in high grade. Fifty-two thousand people walked out of that stadium already knowing what the last one did. They sleeved it in the car park.
It is a DON!! card. DONs traditionally trade well below character cards — barring something unusual like a gold treatment.
And it is not the first. It cannot be. Only one thing ever can.
A card with more supply, more expected high-grade survivors, a less-valued card type, and none of the firstness is currently priced at roughly ninety percent of the card that has all four.
We are not going to tell you what to do about that.
Why nobody else showed you this
Every number on this page is public. The print runs were reported. The population reports are published. The prices are on eBay right now.
Nobody put them next to each other.
Price databases show you what a card sold for. They do not show you how many exist, or why the last one went up, or whether this one has the same thing underneath it. A chart cannot tell you that a card is expensive for a reason that doesn’t apply to the card you’re about to buy.
That’s the analysis this hobby has never had, and it’s what we’re building. Here’s the rest of it.
Sources & method
- 2025 distribution (~40,000+): Sports Illustrated
- 2025 graded population (PSA 13,435 · 11,145 PSA 10s): PSA population report, read July 2026. CGC holds a further 107 — less than 1% of the graded total, which is why a single grader’s number is never a population.
- 2026 distribution (~52,000): stadium giveaway, verified July 2026.
- Prices: observed asking prices on eBay, July 2026. These are not verified sales. An ask is what somebody hopes for, not what anybody paid — and treating the two as the same thing is one of the reasons prices in this hobby can’t be trusted.
- Riplytics publishes no prices. The figures above are other people’s, cited as evidence. When we have sold data we can stand behind, it will appear with the sales underneath it.
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