Biggest waifu release coming
ONE PIECE HEROINES Edition vol.2
EB-05 · Out Oct 30 · 21 waifu cards
684 cards · 396 characters · 8 games
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Every chase-worthy card of your favorite characters — ranked, priced, and tracked across One Piece, Weiss Schwarz, Union Arena, Pokémon, and beyond.
This week in waifu cards
Updated weeklyBiggest mover this week
Makima (Super Rare)
▲ 25.6% to $11.25
Best box under $100
The Eminence in Shadow
Shadow Garden's Alpha and Delta lead a Weiss box that costs less than one of its SPs.
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Featured rankings
Top Waifu Cards
The definitive ranking of female-character trading cards across every major TCG we track, scored on artwork, character popularity, rarity, market value, and collector demand.
Most Expensive Waifu Cards
The priciest female-character trading cards on the market, from signed Weiss Schwarz SPs and Riftbound Showcase signatures to One Piece manga rares — with estimated prices and why each one commands its premium.
Best Waifu Cards Under $50
The highest-scoring anime waifu trading cards you can buy for under $50 right now, ranked by Waifu Score across One Piece, Weiss Schwarz, Union Arena, Pokémon, and more.
Best Female Character Alt Arts
The best alternate-art and special-art waifu cards — the premium print tier where artwork matters most, ranked by Waifu Score.
Market movers
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Latest releases
Weiss
Tales of SERIES
Weiss Schwarz's Tales of SERIES set, dated February 12, 2027, marks the series' 30th anniversary with ten games — Tales of Phantasia through Tales of Graces, including Symphonia, the Abyss and Vesperia. Not released yet — the card list fills in here the week it drops. Its premium tier is 3 SSP, 7 SP and 6 English-exclusive ENX cards.
Weiss
Rent-A-Girlfriend Vol.2
The second Rent-A-Girlfriend Weiss Schwarz set, dated January 29, 2027. Not released yet — the card list fills in here the week it drops. The franchise's four leads are all female, so the premium tier is waifu prints by construction.
LGC · Riftbound
Legacy
Riftbound's sixth main set, dated January 29, 2027. Not released yet — the card list fills in here the week it drops.
UE26BT · Union Arena
Union Arena: GURREN LAGANN
Gurren Lagann's Union Arena set, dated January 22, 2027, with pre-release events a week earlier. Not released yet — the card list fills in here the week it drops. Bandai confirms alternate-art prints but hasn't revealed which characters get them.
Buying guide
Best booster boxes for waifu pulls
Box EV math looks different when you only care about the waifu slots. We ranked 2026's boxes by the odds of pulling a premium card of a character you actually collect.
Under our estimate right now
- Yamato (Secret Rare)One Piece · SEC · OP01-12144% under our estimate$134
- C.C. (1-Star Foil)Union Arena · C★ · UE04BT/CGH-1-00543% under our estimate$13.06
- Milim Nava (Promo 1-Star)Union Arena · R★ · UE20BT/TSK-P-00633% under our estimate$28.78
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Collector hubs
One Piece Card Game
24 sets · 93 cards tracked
Weiss Schwarz
53 sets · 375 cards tracked
Union Arena
18 sets · 74 cards tracked
Dragon Ball Super Card Game
3 sets · 3 cards tracked
Pokémon TCG
42 sets · 58 cards tracked
Naruto Kayou
1 set · 3 cards tracked
Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game
7 sets · 53 cards tracked
Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
13 sets · 25 cards tracked
Waifu cards: questions answered
- What are waifu cards?
- Waifu cards are trading cards collected for the female character they feature rather than for gameplay. They exist across every major anime TCG — One Piece, Weiss Schwarz, Union Arena, Pokémon trainer cards and more — plus Riot's Riftbound, and their value comes from artwork, character popularity, rarity and collector demand rather than competitive usefulness.
- How many waifu cards does TCGWaifu track?
- 684 curated cards across 8 trading card games and 161 sets, covering 396 characters. Set pages additionally carry the complete card list for every set we have data for, not only the curated highlights.
- What is the most expensive waifu card?
- The most valuable card we track is Boa Hancock (OP07 Leader SP) at $6,970. The most expensive waifu cards ranking lists the full top tier with weekly market prices.
- What is a Waifu Score?
- A 0–100 composite we calculate for every card from artwork (25%), character popularity (20%), rarity (15%), market value (15%), collector demand (15%) and set importance (10%). Market value is log-scaled so a single four-figure grail does not flatten the rest of the list, which is why a well-executed cheap alt art can outrank a dull expensive secret rare.
- Are the prices on TCGWaifu real market prices?
- Where we have data, yes — prices refresh weekly from TCGplayer market data and each card page shows when it was last updated. Cards without a live feed carry an editorial estimate for a near-mint copy, labelled as such. We never present an estimate as a live price.
- Where can I buy waifu cards?
- Every card page links to TCGplayer and eBay listings for that specific print. For a particular chase card, buying the single is almost always cheaper than the expected cost of pulling it from sealed product — the set pages explain the box maths for each release.