The OP10 meta is teeming with powerful strategies and bold new takes on familiar Leaders. From Blue Doflamingo’s relentless Warlords rush to Purple Luffy’s early-game ramp, each of these decks showcases a unique path to victory. We’re also seeing the resurgence of fierce Black control builds like Marshall D. Teach, Rob Lucci, and Smoker, along with refreshing hybrids such as Black Yellow Luffy and Black Blue Usopp.
In this overview, you’ll learn how each deck operates, what makes it stand out in the current competitive landscape, and how you can pilot it (or prepare to face it) at the tournament level. Whether you’re searching for a new main deck, scouting the best counters, or just looking to stay ahead of the meta, these profiles will guide you through the top contenders in OP10.
Donquixote Doflamingo
Blue Doflamingo is on the top of the OP10 meta, using the {Seven Warlords of the Sea} Characters to rush opponents down. This deck plays aggressively and can catch most opponents off-guard and force them to play defensively.
How does the deck work?
This deck uses Leader Doffy‘s effect to play out a {Seven Warlords of the Sea} Character from the top of your deck. You’re using 3 Don to play a 4-cost Character, and two of those Don are used to increase your Leader’s attack Power. We’re creating a high-power attack with the Leader and playing out a Character at the same time.
To make sure we have the right 4-cost {Seven Warlords of the Sea} Character at the top of our deck, Perona or Buggy can rearrange the top cards in our deck, gaining the most out of our Leader Doffy‘s attack. Jinbe lets us go wide on the field, developing an extra Character that creates opportunities for more aggressive turns.
4-cost Trafalgar Law and 6-cost Jozu can be extremely annoying for your opponent, returning one of their Characters to their hand while you develop on the field can be a huge momentum shift, making it difficult for them to make a comeback.
Purple Monkey D.Luffy
Purple Luffy continues to perform well in OP10 meta, holding up against the popular Blue Doflamingo. The ramp deck can play their high-cost Characters on earlier turns, allowing it to create pressure on the field that forces opponents to find answers to deal with.
How does this deck work?
PLuffy can start ramping on turn 2, allowing you to play higher-cost characters on earlier turns. You lose a life card when activating Leader Luffy’s effect, so play more defensively to protect your Life cards from opponent attacks. 4-cost Bon Clay and 5-cost Eutass”Captain”Kid help out with the ramp game plan, making sure you play high-cost Characters earlier and you don’t fall behind on your strategy when you deramp.
This list has the {Straw Hat Crew} package, using Zoro-Juurou and San-Gorou for the extra resources. 7-cost Luffytaro is the mid-game carry, allowing you to play one of your 5-cost or less Purple {Straw Hat Crew} Characters along with him. This lets you go wider on the field and forces opponents to play more defensively. 7-cost Sanji is a better choice if you’re trying to KO one of the opponent’s 6-cost or less Characters. You can rest that Character and use Sanji’s Rush attack to KO it or at least force Counter cards from the opponent’s hand.
9-cost Charlotte Linlin and 9-cost Monkey D.Luffy are the late-game carries in the deck, both with powerful effects that you’ll want to use in different scenarios. 9-cost Charlotte Linlin is great for removing a Character from play and gaining a Life card, whereas 9-cost Monkey D.Luffy draws you a card and has the Rush attack to either KO a rested Character or go for an aggressive Leader attack.
Black Marshal D.Teach
Marshall D.Teach isn’t an easy deck to pilot correctly, and in the early OP09 meta, players weren’t too sure if this Leader would keep up with the top performers. Fast forward a couple of weeks later, Black Teach is crushing the competitive OPTCG scene and top-cutting major tournaments.
How does the deck work?
Marshall D.Teach reigns as one of the strongest Black control decks in OP10 meta. This deck shuts down all your On Play effects, so you have to build it differently. We’re avoiding any card with an On Play effect, relying on Finger Pistol, Black Hole, and Doc Q to KO the opponent’s Characters. Marshall D. Teach can prevent opponents from activating their On Play effects, but you’ll have to trash a card to activate it. You’ll usually activate the effect on turns where you expect the opponent will want to use those On Play cards the most. This will completely shut them down from playing out their strategy, setting the stage for a powerful upcoming turn on your side. If they rely On Play effect to KO your Characters, then it can put them in an awkward situation.
The list has multiple cost-reduction cards to help put things in range to remove. Laboon and Van Augur are the best cost reducers in your list that also pose offensive pressure. Speaking of offensive pressure, Jesus Burgess is one of your toughest attackers. He can’t be KO’d by effects and will gain +1,000 Power for every 4 cards in your trash.
10-cost Marshall D. Teach is this deck’s strongest play, letting you negate the effect of the opponent’s Leader and one of their Characters. He’s also a high-power blocker, creating a wall to block one attack and protect your Leader.
Red Shanks
The king of Red control, Shanks is a powerful tournament deck, keeping up with the top meta decks like Blue Doflamingo, Black Teach, and PLuffy. This deck wants to slow you down and take it to the late game, dropping big bodies that can be tough for most decks to remove.
How does the deck work?
Red Shanks’s effect is great for defense, dropping the Power of one of the opponent’s attackers, and demanding fewer Counter resources from you. This helps you stall out games until your higher-cost Characters start dropping in. 7-cost Benn.Beckman and 8-cost Silvers Rayleigh can KO opponent’s Characters, weakening their control of the field and their offensive pressure.
10-cost Shanks reduces the Power of all of the opponent’s Characters by -1,000, making it even harder for them to get their attacks through, especially if they have low Power attackers.
Black Yellow Monkey D.Luffy
Black Yellow Luffy had a rough start in OP10 but players are picking the deck up and finding success with it. Winning a Championship Series in the East quickly got eyes back on it, and since it saw more play, it has not disappointed. This is a tough deck to fully master, minor mistakes will cost you the game or ruin your combo turn. It’s capable of crushing Black Rob Lucci and Black Smoker and can keep up with the popular Blue Doflamingo.
How does the deck work?
The Black Yellow Luffy deck wants to drop to 0 Life cards to activate the Leader effect, placing two Adult brothers (Luffy, Ace, or Sabo) in your Life area, faceup. Afterward, you want to play the kid brothers and activate their effects, letting you play their older versions from the Life area and onto the field. This builds up a stronger field and boosts your Leader’s Power for offensive and defensive value.
On 10 Don, you’re looking to play Gecko Moria, cheating out two of the kid brothers from the trash and playing out their adult versions. This is the strongest turn for you, developing three Characters and gaining +4,000 Power on Leader Luffy.
The popular lists are cutting out Ace for more control cards, favoring 4-cost Kuzan for the cost reduction and Kingdom Come to KO high-power Characters.
Black Blue Usopp
Currently, Black Blue Usopp is the strongest new Leader in OP10, winning a Championship Series and consistently making top cuts in major tournaments. This is a value deck that uses {Dressrosa} type Characters as part of his game plan.
How does the deck work?
You’re using Leader effect to draw a card whenever one of your {Dressrosa} type Characters is removed from the field, ensuring you don’t run out of resources and eventually outvalue the opponent.
This list has a couple of control cards like 4-cost Roronoa Zoro and 7-cost Kyros to remove one of the opponent’s Characters, giving you a stronger presence on the field.
7-cost Rebecca is your strongest play in this deck, allowing you to play two Characters alongside her. You can choose a 7-cost and a 4-cost Character to play, so ideally, you want to go for Kyros and Roronoa Zoro. However, the list has other options like 7-cost Monkey D.Luffy and (Canvedish or Franky).
Black Rob Lucci
Black Rob Lucci is still a consistent deck in OP10 meta, mainly because it can go head-to-head with the popular Blue Doflamingo deck. The control Black deck has lost a lot of its popularity but still shows up in tournaments as one of the top 10 decks.
How does the deck work?
The Rob Lucci deck uses cost-reduction cards like Helmeppo, Tempest Kick, and Ice Age to put Characters in range for your KO cards to remove them. 4-cost Rob Lucci is the main control card you’ll rely on in this deck, capable of KOing two targets. You can also play Rob Lucci from Trash through Spandine or Geko Moria. 3-cost Brook and 7-cost Jack are other ways you can KO Characters. Jack is one of the strongest removal Characters as he’s tough for opponents to remove and you reactivate his effect every turn.
Gecko Moria is the strongest play for this deck, developing multiple Characters on the field. The plan is to play Gecko Moria and get Rebecca from the trash. Rebecca then plays Spandine, who in turn will play Rob Lucci to KO two Characters in one turn.
This list has 9-cost Kaido, a late-game removal play that trashes instead of KOs. This is powerful against decks with 5-cost Sabo‘s KO immunity like Black Yellow Luffy or Black Rob Lucci. 9-cost Kaido has to trash one of your cards to activate his effect but will also force opponents to trash a card from their hand, bleeding them out of resources.
Black Smoker
Black Smoker is holding up decently in OP10 meta and you should expect players to bring this deck, although it won’t be as popular as Black Teach. The control deck can keep up with Blue Doflamingo, making it a solid choice among players.
How does this deck Work
Black Smoker is a control deck that can KO one Character each turn. 5-cost Tashigi is the strongest play in the mid-game, allowing you to shift the game in your favor. The list also has Brook and Jack as other KO options to keep control of the field. 8-cost Gecko Moria is one of your strongest plays, offering extra value by playing Characters from the trash and developing multiple Characters in one turn.
Leader Smoker has a built-in cost-reduction effect, but the list has tons of cost-reducers like Helmeppo, Hina, and Ice Age, to help you set up your KO effects.
Purple Green Lim
Lim had a great run early into OP10 meta, but as players figured out the best competitive decks, the Lim frenzy slowly faded. However, the Green Purple ramp deck remains a great choice to play and still makes top cuts.
How does the deck work?
Green Purple Lim forces you to play your Characters in the rested state, luckily, this deck has multiple cards that want to see rested Characters to activate their effects. Lim’s effect rests 3 Don to ramp up 1 Don and cheats out a 5-cost or less {ODYSSEY} type Character from your hand, allowing you to accelerate your game plan while throwing out bodies on the field for the opponent to deal with.
This list wants to play high-cost Characters like 9-cost Roronoa Zoro or 9-cost Adio a turn earlier, making it difficult for opponents to remove and from there they could get overpowered by your win conditions.
Green Jewelry Bonney
Green Bonney deck is a defensive wall, forcing games to stretch out where both players will be relying on their late-game win conditions. It’s a great deck to combat the Doffy and Enel players but will struggle against Black Lucci.
How does the deck work?
This is a stall deck that uses Leader Bonney‘s effect to rest the opponent’s Leader or one of their Characters from attacking, slowing down their aggression. This requires you to save 1 Don for your defensive turn to activate Bonney’s effect. Cavendish gives you extra Don, making it easier for you to activate Leader effect and maintain your field development.
Hody Jones is the main aggressor resting two of the opponent’s Characters, letting you choose between either KOing those Characters or attacking the Leader. This list has the Fortress strategy with 8-cost Eustass”Captain”Kid and 2-cost Rosinante, which has become a popular choice among players in tournaments.
