Summary

• Start with pre-constructed starter decks for One Piece Card Game to learn gameplay basics easily.
• New starter decks feature reprints and offer valuable cards to enhance existing strategies.
• Different decks, like Animal Kingdom Pirates and Worst Generation, provide unique playstyles and diverse card effects.

Like with any card game, the best and easiest way to get started with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:One Piece Card Game is with one of its pre-constructed starter decks. Not only are starter decks a great way to start, but, like Yu-Gi-Oh!, some of these decks might be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:worth 🌟a good chunk of change in the future.

They will teach you the basics of the game with a deck that best e🌊ncapsulates what playstyle each color tends to have, but that is just the beginning of your journey to becoming the King of the Pirates.

Updated on February 7, 2025, by Jesus Morales: The new wave of starter decks are here! These new decks include incredible reprints for old strategies like Purple Luffy from OP05 and even Doflamingo from OP01. With this release, we felt like the list needed an update, reflecting some of the best decks to play right out of the box.

20 ꧙ Monkey. D. Luffy (Black) 🍌

The First Character-Based Deck

• Key Cards:
  • ST08-005: Shanks
  • ST08-004: Koby

Black finally gets its own leader that isn't a villain. Making it the third leader car🧜d with Straw Hat Luffy printed on it — the second one from starter decks alone — ST08 compiles a group of characters that have molded and inspired Luffy throughout his journey to become the next king of the pir🌜ates.

The deck and leader ability feel like a combination of red starter deck Monkey.D.Luffy leader and black Smoker leader, mixing the cost reduction abilities of black with the f💝lexibility of rested DON!! cards.

19 FILM Edition ܫ

All The Movie-Exclusive Characters!

• Key Cards:
  • ST05-004: Uta
  • ST05-006: Gild Tesoro
  • ST05-014: Buena Festa

The first starter deck to be released after the initial four was a bit of a disa🍷ppointment. It only doubled down on the DON!! minus strategy that the Animal Kingdom Pirates decks already does so much more efficiently. Wh൲ile the deck does have a few fun tricks up Shanks' sleeve, like the massive Douglas Bullet character and the Union Armada event, it leaves much to be desired.

Luckily, since the deck is focused on movie-specific characters, as long as One Piece keeps churning out♔ movies, this deck 🌌will continue getting support. Hopefully, we can get a real Red-Haired Pirates deck soon.

18 ܫ Zoro And Sanji

The Wings Of The Future Pirate King

• Key Cards
  • ST12-003: Dracule Mihawk
  • ST12-016: Lion Strike

The highly anticipated first dual leader deck came in as a bit of a flop. The lea𝓡der's effect is nothing to write home about. It can return one of your characters back to your hand to reactivate one of your more powerful characters. This effect can be really great to pair with excellent characters with on play effects and hi𓂃gh counters on them.

The biggest boon that this starter deck carries is that it comes with two copies of Dracule Mihawk, a generic card that can be splashed onto just about 𓄧any green deck that plays a handful of Slash attribute cards.

17 Yamato

"I Am Oden, I Will Protect You!"

• Key Cards:
  • ST09-014: Narikabura Arrow
  • ST09-012: Yamato

Just like ST08, the Yamato starter deck feels like a pil💧e of jumbled up cards from different archetypes. Sadly, the color yellow suffers from being the newest color in the game, meaning their card pool is quite small compared to the rest of the colors in the game.

The deck makes up for its poor card choices by giving you an excellent leader card that can be extremely defensive — similar to Edward.Newgate — at the cost of your life cards. Not only is this deck an excellent choice to pick up the color yellow, but it also includes the yellow version of on🗹e of the best defensive counters in the game, N🍃arikabura Arrow.

16 3D2Y

Two Years In Sabaody!

• Key Cards
  • ST14-003 Sanji
  • ST14-007 Nico Robin
  • ST14-016 I Have My Crew!!

After the Straw Hat's defeat at Sabaody Archipelago, they must regroup after training for two years. This deck showcases each of the member's trainin♕g arcs while introducing a new mechanic into the game in the shape of adding cost to cards.

With Black having some of the most p𝓰owerful removal in the game, adding cost to your characters with cards like I Have My Crew!! can help you stay in the game way longer.

15 Straw Hat Crew 🎃

The Future Pirate King's Crew

• Key Cards:
  • ST01-014: Guard Point
  • ST01-006: Tony Tony.Chopper
  • ST01-015: Gum-Gum Jet Pistol
  • ST01-012: Monkey.D.Luffy
  • ST01-011: Brook

The deck featuring the leading cast of characters in One Piece is not bad by any means; the deck will teach new players how aggro works and the main core of the game, which i๊s battling. Its only downside is that, in a constructed format, the Straw Hat deck lacks certain options that make it a less well-rounded and cohesive deck.

The deck does a lot of neat things, with it being able to use combos that can use rested DON!! to power up your next hit. It also includes big character cards that decks tend to have a hard time against like Franky, but it being a card with nothing to note besides its whopping 6,000 power leaves something to be desired. If aggressive play and huge, unstoppable character🉐s are your thing, then the Straw Hat Crew deck is the way to go, but you'll need a few more cards from Romance Dawn to round it out a bit more.

14 ඣ Animal Kingdom Pirates

Ruling Wano With An Iron Club

• Key Cards:
  • ST04-003: Kaido
  • ST04-004: King
  • ST04-005: Queen
  • ST04-017: Onigashima Island

Purple always tends to be the "gimmicky" color in most color-based card games. While it is also true in the One Piece Card Game, the Animal Kingdom Pirates deck does things a little differently from most. In the One Piece Card Game, you can draw two DON!! cards from your DON!! 𒁃deck every turn. Purple pushes that further with cards like Onigashima Island, which you can rest once per turn to draw an extra DON!! card.

Even though Onigashima Island draws an extra DON!!, the card comes into play rested, so you are unable to use it to pay 🥂any play costs. That's another small gimmick in the Purple deck; many cards include effects whose cost requires you to return a DON!! card back to the deck, constantly cycling your resources in 𒁏a never-ending engine with an incredibly strong top end to clean up games quickly when played properly.

As the meta progresses, it seems like the real game begins when both players have their maximum allotted DO𒁏N!!, so a deck that can ramp up quickly and reach that threshold by turn four can be quite deadly.

13 𒅌 Absolute Justice

"Evil Cannot Be Forgiven!"

• Key Cards:
  • ST06-010: Shockwave
  • ST06-015: Great Eruption
  • ST06-006: Tashigi

Bandai's first foray into a new color archetype is with the 💟Navy-themed Absolute Ju🗹stice starter deck. Absolute Justice and its leader, Sakazuki, focus on lowering the play cost of your opponent's character in play and deleting them depending on how low their costs are. In a game where removing cards with massive power values is difficult, lowering their cost is a great way to circumvent that issue.

An interesting way of removal new to the One Piece Card Game and not so common in other card games, the cost-lowering ef♛fects in Absolute Justice falls in theme with the Navy in the One Piece universe holding a high and mighty attitude towards civilians and lower cost pirates.

12 The Seven Warlords Of The Sea 🎃

Pawns Of The World Government

• Key Cards:
  • ST03-017: Love-Love Mellow
  • ST03-009: Donquixote Doflamingo
  • ST03-005: Dracule Mihawk
  • ST03-007: Sentomaru

Every starter deck has its own identity, and the Warlords deck's game plan is control. With tons of tools like the s🔯even-cost Doflamingo and cheap blockers like Trafalgar Law, the Warlords deck can play an oppressive and ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚslow game that will frustrate your opponent. Not only does the deck do well at controlling your opponent's board by bouncing characters back to their hand or even redirecting attacks to your blockers, but it is also the only deck that can draw a lot of cards.

Due to the counter mechanic in th꧃e One Piece Card Game, card draw is few and far between, albeit during the draw phase. Cards that have card draw effects come at a steep prܫice or need to meet specific conditions. Cards like Dracule Mihawk and the Love-Love Mellow event cards, while conditional, can offer players that extra counter that can save their lives. Control-heavy cards and unique card-drawing blockers and attackers are what make the Seven Warlords deck a force to be reckoned with in the One Piece Card Game.

11 Big Mom Pirates ✅

The Biggest Pirate Family On The Sea

• Key Cards:
  • ST07-010: Charlotte Linlin
  • ST07-007: Charlotte Brulee
  • ST07-003: Charlotte Katakuri

The newest addition to the𝓰 Four Emperors in the card game, Charlotte Linlin, otherwise known as "Big Mom," is the Soul-Soul Fruit user. This deck is the first introduction to the color yellow in the One Piece Card Game, which tends to be a more defensive color, with healing as its main gimmick.

Linlin, when attacking, can add a card from the top or bottom of your Life, and if you have two or less Life, you can add a card from your hand to it. This effect is very powerful, since yellow tends to have many cards with a Trigger🌠 effect. Combined with cards like Charlotte Brulee and the seven-cost Character Charlotte Linlin, this deck will heal more often than you can attack.