Welcome to our One Piece card game Meta Tier list for OP17 THE WORLD’S STRONGEST WARRIORS. Here, you’ll find the best-performing One Piece meta decks in the tournament scene.
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Blue Rocks.D.Xebec
Green Dracule Mihawk
Green Dracule Mihawk gains a +1,000 Power boost if you’re against a <Slash> attribute Leader, so if you’re going up against a deck like Green Zoro, you’re gaining a massive advantage throughout the whole game.
Leader Mihawk’s effect lets you rest one of your cards to set 3 of your Don as Active if there is a Character with a cost of 5 or more in play. You can rest any of your cards to activate Mihawk’s effect, which means you can rest a Character, Don, or even a Stage for the 3 Active Don. However, by activating Mihawk’s effect, you are not allowed to play any Characters anymore. This means we’ll be using the remainder of our Don to go for heavier attacks to force Counter cards or play Events.
The 5-cost Tashigi is a massive mid-game Character that can’t be removed by an effect thanks to her ability to rest a card instead and remain in play. On top of that, during your turn, Tashigi can rest 2 cards to gain a +2,000 Power boost that sticks during your opponent’s turn, becoming an 8,000 Power threat. Leader Mihawk giving us Active Don will make it easier to use Tashigi’s effects.
As for the 7-cost Shanks, he synergizes with our Leader’s rest effect. When rested, Shanks can rest one of the opponent’s Characters with 7,000 base Power or less. This can be helpful to KO a Character or to rest a blocker, preventing it from blocking one of your attacks. During the opponent’s turn, when Shanks is rested, all their Characters will have a -1,000 Power reduction, making it harder for the opponent to get attacks through.
Red Black Sabo
Red Ace
Purple Kaido
Black Monkey D.Luffy
Yellow Charlotte Linlin
Purple Enel
Purple Enel is locked to max 6 Don, but your built-in Leader effect lets you ramp 4 Don and attach 4 rested Don to one of your Characters. This means we get to deramp without sacrificing our strategy, and a 1-cost Character can become attackers, threatening the opponent’s Life cards.
The 6-cost Enel’s are the carry in this deck, gaining +2,000 Power and becoming heavy hitters, too difficult for most opponents to remove. The list is full of 0-cost events that we’ll be using to either protect our Leader or go for stronger attacks and board control.
Red Green Luffy
Green Shanks
Purple Yellow Nico Robin
Red Green Luffy & Ace
Black Yellow Marchall D.Teach
The Black Yellow Teach is all about pushing to the late game and dropping big bodies on the board. You have a lot of protection tools at your disposal, from blockers to Life gain, and your Leader’s effect letting you redirect one of your opponent’s attacks. The ability to redirect an attack isn’t always used to protect your Leader, but can also be used to protect a key Character in play, making sure you keep your board pressure. Additionally, you can gain value by KOing one of your Characters, like Sanjuan.Wolf, Avalo Pizarro, Van Augur, so forcing your opponent to kill them through your Leader’s effect will come in handy.
Jesus Burgess gains Power the more cards you have in the trash, so the longer the game stretches out, the more of a threat he becomes, forcing the opposing player to commit multiple Counter plays to protect themselves from his attack.
The 8 and 10-cost Teach are your late game carries, dropping on the board with their high Power and having defensive abilities that will come in handy to prolong the game until you can set up a winning turn.
Blue Yellow Boa Hancock
Blue Yellow Boa Hancock can draw you a card when you play a Character during the opponent’s turn. We can play a Character during the opponent’s turn through Trigger effects from cards like Ran, Gorgon Sisters, and 9-cost Boa Hancock.
If you attach 1 Don to Leader Boa, you can punish the opponent if they KO your {Amazon Lily} or {Kuja Pirates} type Characters with 5000 base power or more. If they do choose to KO them, they’ll be forced to add the top card in their Life Area to their hand, making it even easier for you to set up your winning turn.
Playing Gorgon Sisters through her trigger effect can be a huge tempo swing, developing a 5,000 Power Character that can attach rested Don to your other attackers, setting the stage for a huge attack. Ran is also doing a similar job, giving a rested Don to 1 of your {Kuja Pirates} type Leader or Characters to enable your Leader effect and go for stronger attacks.
Gloriosa lets you place the card you want in your Life Area, which means we get to put the Trigger card we want to plan a wider field, enable our Leader’s draw effect, and pressure the opposing player in the mid-game. The 5-cost Nami can force the opponent to add a Life card to their hand, making them more vulnerable to your attackers
9-cost Boa gives us more survivability while putting your opponent behind on Life cards. She’s a late-game win condition capable of going for heavy swings to set up a winning turn, especially if they’re at 0 Life cards and you have Perfume Femur to ignore blockers.
Purple Charlotte Katakuri
Red Luffy
Blue Green Luffy
Green Blue Luffy also known as Goofy is all about gaining massive tempo over your opponent. This is an Impel Down deck that uses Leader effect to set 2 of their Don as Active, allowing you to make more plays per turn. We’re running a lot of Prisoner of Impel Down, mostly for the 2k counter, but also for Buggy to cheat them out on the field, developing an additional attacker that the opposing player needs to deal with.
Crocodile and Mr.3 are great for stalling out games and protecting you from an attack, but they can also turn into attackers when needed to pump up the pressure on your opponent.
Boa Hancock is our strongest play, acting as a 9,000 Power attacker that also gets to prevent one of the opponent’s Characters (except Luffy) from attacking us.
Blue Yellow Nami
Nami is a value Leader, drawing you a card whenever you or your opponent takes a Life card during your turn. You will, though, have to have 7 cards or less to draw a card. Additionally, if you have a Don attached to Nami, you can activate her second effect during your opponent’s turn. Leader Nami lets you trash a card from your hand to gain +2,000 Power until the end of the turn. You’re turning Nami into a 7,000 Power Leader, making it difficult for your opponent to get their attacks through.
Kikunojo is your early game attacker, and with 6,000 Power, she can be bothersome for most decks. Bosalino is giving us a life card and acting as a blocker to protect us from an attack.
Nico Robin is crazy good with Blue Yellow Nami, letting you trigger your Leader effect while giving you additional Life cards, and if KO’d she deals damage to the opponent’s Leader, putting them in a more vulnerable spot to your attackers.
Since we’re running the Thriller Bark version, we can rely on Gecko Moria as a late game play, letting us play a Thriller Bark 4-cost from trash or add it to our Life card, making it even harder for the opposing player to set up a winning turn.
Red Blue Lucy
Red Blue Lucy lets you trash any number of Events when you attack or your opponent attacks to give your Leader a +1,000 Power boost for every event you trash. You can defend your Leader from an attack or even go for a stronger attack for more offense. Lucy also has a built-in draw engine, letting you draw a card when you activate an event with a base cost of 3 or more.
The deck is full of Events to play around the Leader’s strategy. Your Events serve different purposes, either to draw you more cards, reduce the Power of an opponent’s Character, or even remove a Character from the field.
The 7-cost Sabo is a 9,000 Power Blocker, perfect for protecting you from an attack, and can be used offensively for heavy attacks. Sabo lets you activate one of your Events in hand, so you’re gaining additional value when he drops on the field.
Black Yamato
Black Yamato is an aggressive deck, using its Leader effect to give the Rush keyword to a Land of Wano type Character that has been played from the trash. To make use of our effect, we run the 6-cost Yamato, allowing us to draw and trash a card from our hand; then we can activate its main effect when we want to kill Yamato and play an 8-cost black Yamato from the trash. We’re running two 8-cost Yamato’s in the deck, which will enter with the Rush keyword if played from the trash, putting their high power to use immediately.
With the OP16-096 Yamato in play, it can be difficult for the opposing player to control our board since KOing the 8-cost Yamato means we trigger the KO effect and play the 6-cost Yamato from trash, essentially creating a loop that ensures we never lose attackers.
This deck thrives on being aggressive, and in many cases, it will solely focus on the opponent’s Leader and ignore the board, trying to force the opponent into a defensive playstyle or a “who gets to rush the other first” strategy. We’re heavy 2k counters and have our 1-cost Events to keep our Leader safe for as long as possible.
Red Edward Newgate
Black Imu
The Black Imu deck is another top performer in OP13, keeping up with the Red Blue Ace. This deck’s core strategy is using the 10-cost Five Elders to cheat out 5 {Five Elders} type Character cards with 5000 power and different card names from your trash. You get to go wide on the field and plan multiple attacks to pressure the opposing players. Two of your Five Elders have the Blocker keyword, so they can buy you enough time until you’re confident you can finish the game.
If you want to use 10-cost Five Elders on the same turn, we need The Empty Throne in the list, which we can play for free at the start of the turn. Instead of paying 10 Don to play Five Elders, we can have it in play for 3 Don, leaving us with enough Don to activate it and make other plays.
For the mirror matchup, we need to have Mary Geoise in the list as your Black Imu opponent can play Never Existed… in the First Place… to remove your The Empty Throne.
