On April 19th, Top Cut Events hosted the One Piece TCG OP10 Regionals in Peoria, Illinois, drawing an impressive 974 players for two days of high-level competition. Since the 2025 bans, the OP10 meta has become more diverse, with several top-tier decks and even off-meta Leaders proving they can hold their own against the best.
Red Shanks and Black Teach have been the most popular choices, but each has clear counters that prevent them from dominating, helping to maintain a healthy and varied metagame. Meanwhile, Green Purple Lim has been gaining momentum, shaking up expectations and forcing players to prepare for the matchup ahead of the Regionals.
1st Purple Monkey D. Luffy
Purple Monkey D.Luffy wins first place, proving it can outperform the most-played decks in the current format! PLuffy has a built-in ramp effect, allowing you to sacrifice a Life card to ramp 1 Don as early as turn 2. You can start playing higher-cost characters a turn earlier, putting stronger bodies on the field, which can be tough for the opposing player to keep up with.
This deck uses the {Straw Hat Crew} package, with Luffy-Tarou as a key play to go wide on the field and pressure the opposing player. 9-cost Charlotte Linlin and 9-cost Luffy are the carries in this deck, with strong effects to get lots of value when they’re played.
2nd Red Shanks
Red Shanks is the most-played deck in tournaments right now, capable of going toe-to-toe against most of the meta Leaders. He’s one of the safest choices for tournaments, and we expect nothing less from seeing him at the top of a tournament.
Red Shanks’ effect reduces the Power of one of the opponent’s attackers by 1,000, making it harder for them to get an attack through and saving you Counter resources.
This deck can remove a Character through Benn.Beckman, Edward Newgate, and Silvers Rayleigh, allowing you to have control of the field and to put your opponent behind. However, lists have also shifted to a more aggressive style, running the 3-cost Sanji, 5-cost Dream Luffy, and 8-cost Monkey D. Dragon.
3rd Black Marshall D. Teach
Another top meta performer is Black Teach, rivaling Red Shanks for first place. Teach is one of the difficult Leaders to pilot correctly, but as players get more accustomed to how this deck works, we’re in the West picking up Teach more.
This Leader can’t play On Play effects, but you can also shut down your opponent from activating their On Play effects, disrupting their strategy. It can be frustrating going against Teach, especially when you’re playing your On Play Characters without an effect, just to have a body on the field.
The Black Teach deck has removal cards like Finger Pistol, Black Hole, and Doc Q to keep control of the field. Laboon and Van Augur are there for the cost-reduction, putting higher-cost Characters in range for your removal play.
Jesus Burgess can become a win condition in the late game, gaining Power the more cards you have in trash. He’s a tough Character for most decks to remove, and they often will be forced to ignore him and try to rush down the Teach player. However, with 10-cost Teach, it’ll be a challenge to rush your opponent down while trying to go through a defensive wall protecting Leader Teach.
This list is running the I Bid 500 Million!!, which is mainly there for its Trigger effect to KO a 6-cost or less Character. If it’s in your hand, you’ll likely trash it to activate your Leader effect.
4th Black Marshall D. Teach
Black Marshall D. Teach took third and fourth place, both lists looking similar, with different ratios.
Top 8 Black Rob Lucci
Despite the loss of Ice Age and Gecko Moria, Black Rob Lucci is still going far in Regional tournaments, proving he doesn’t need the broken Moria effect to remain relevant in the OPTCG meta. This Leader’s cost-reduction effect synergizes with what the deck is trying to do, reducing the cost of the opposing player’s Characters and then removing them from the field through your cards’ effects.
Controlling the field is the main strategy for this deck, preventing your opponent from building an aggressive board and slowly bleeding them of resources. We have Hina, Laboon, and Kuzan for their cost reduction, allowing 4-cost Rob Lucci, Brook, and Jack to KO higher-cost threats.
