Blue Donquixote Doflamingo keeps getting new cards that make it a stronger deck. The latest Start 17 expansion brings multiple cards for Doffy players to add to the list, making it one of the best decks to play in the OP08 meta.
OP08 Decklist
1xOP01-060
4xOP01-077
4xOP07-046
4xST17-003
2xOP01-073
4xOP07-040
4xOP07-045
4xST03-004
4xST03-005
4xST17-002
4xEB01-023
4xOP02-054
4xST17-004
1xOP07-057
3xOP04-056ST17 Decklist
1xOP01-060
4xST03-005
4xST03-004
4xOP01-077
2xOP05-118
4xEB01-023
3xOP07-040
4xOP07-045
4xOP07-046
2xOP07-047
4xST17-001
4xST17-002
4xST17-003
4xST17-004
2xOP04-056
1xOP07-057How to Play
The Blue Doffy deck aims to build a stronger board through Leader ability and Jinbe, letting you play a 4-cost or less {The Seven Warlord of the Sea} Characters. Cheating out Characters makes it easier to keep up with the opponent’s board development or even overwhelm them with multiple attacks.
This deck has access to a lot of card draw potential and can take things to the late game with Edward Weevil and Kaido. Doffy deck has board control Events to keep opponents from feeling too comfortable on the board.
Leader
Donquixote Doflamingo‘s effect requires you to have information on what the top card in your deck is to ensure it goes through. We’re attaching 2 Don on Leader and resting 1 Don to activate his effect, basically spending 3 Don to play a rested 4-cost {The Seven Warlords of the Ses} Character that we find on the top of the deck.
If we don’t find the card we need, we’ll end up wasting 1 Don. This is why we rely on cards that let us rearrange the top cards in our deck.
Perona and Buggy can look at the top cards in your deck and let you put them back in any order. We want to order those cards so that whenever Leader Doflamingo attacks, we get to play a {The Seven Warlords of the Sea} Character. We’re planning to take advantage of this effect for two turns, so all cards must be ordered correctly.
Since Buggy is a +2,000 Counter, we prefer playing Perona over him, especially since she can look at the top 5 cards instead of just 3.
Sengoku draws us one of the {The Seven Warlords of the Sea} Characters we need to have a powerful mid-game.
Main Seven Warlords
When a searcher is played, we’re looking for one of these {The Seven Warlords of the Sea} Characters. Jinbe is the number Character we want, letting us play another 4-cost Character, going wide on the board. Edward Weevil is a 6k Power attacker, posing a threat if we attach 1 Don to him and attack for 7k Power.
Crocodile is a value card but is dependent on the top card in your deck. It’s important to have a {The Sever Walords of the Sea} at the top of the deck to draw two and place one card back at the top of your deck. If you’re at 7 Don when making this play, make sure to play Crocodile first, so you have control over which Character is played through your Leader effect.
As for 5k Gecko Moria, he’s a value card that we want to play when we have something of value in our trash. The card can either be {The Seven Warlords of the Sea} or {The Thriller Bark Pirates} with a cost of 4 or less. Depending on the state of the game, we’ll decide whether we want a Character that adds board pressure, or we value a +2,000 Counter card.
4-cost Boa Hancock is a 6,000 Power blocker, but in many cases, you’ll prefer using her offensively. Her On Play effect synergizes with your game plan, allowing you to rearrange the top 3 cards in your deck. She also gives 1 rested Don to {Sever Warlords of the Sea} type Leader or Character, adding more power to your attacks.
4-cost Trafalgar Law helps control the field, returning one of your Characters to your hand to return 1 of the opponent’s 4-cost or less Characters. Usually, you’ll return a 1-cost Character on your end, to either replay it or use it as a Counter card.
Other Seven Warlords
These are other {Seven Warlords of the Sea} Characters that we can play on the board but are more useful as 2k Counters.
If we feel compelled to play one of them and have no other, better, options, then Dracule Mihawk or Crocodile are the best options since they have 5k Power. Dracule Mihawk is the preferred choice since he can fix up our hand with his draw 2 trash 2 cards effect.
Board Control
Gum-Gum Red Roc is the strongest removal card, putting one of the opponent’s Characters at the bottom of their deck.
Gravity Blade Raging Tiger removes two 6-cost or less Characters. 7 Don means we can still activate Leader ability if we’re at 10 Don and develop the board, or we can play 3c Donquixote Doflamingo blocker.
Other Events
Prefume Femur can be played on one of your {Seven Warlords of the Sea} type Characters or Leader to boost its Power by 2k and ignore a blocker. This Event is usually played to set up a Leader strike and try to go for the finishing play. Its trigger effect draws you a card, so in some cases, you might prefer the draw.
How to Mulligan
Perona or 3c Donquixote Doflamingo are essential for their search effects, letting you activate Leader effect. So those are the two most important cards we need to find.
Jinbe and Edward Weevil. They’re our best board development.
Turn-Based Gameplay
Going First
- Turn 1 (1 Don): Perona, place 4-cost {Seven Warlords of the Sea} second from the top of the deck. Place the rest accordingly to get full advantage from them.
- Turn 2 (3 Don): 2 Don on Leader and play the top card in your deck.
- Turn 3 (5 Don): 4-cost Character development or Leader effect + Perona.
- Turn 4 (7 Don): 4-cost Character + Leader effect or Gravity Blade Raging Tiger to remove two Characters.
- Turn 5 (9 Don): Board development or control with either Gravity Blade Raging Tiger or Gum-Gum Red Roc. If we play Gum-Gum Red Roc, we can activate Leader effect.
- Turn 6 (10 Don): Kaido if opponent is at 3 health.
Going Second
- Turn 1 (2 Don): Perona
- Turn 2 (4 Don): Activate Leader effect. If we didn’t have Perona, we’d play a 4-cost character from hand.
- Turn 3 (6 Don): 3c Donquixote Doflamingo then Leader effect or vice versa, depending on the card on the top of our deck.
- Turn 4 (8 Don): Board development or Gravity Blade Raging Tiger for board control.
- Turn 5 (10 Don): Kaido if the opponent is at 3 health.
Other Cards
- Boa Hancock is a {The Seven Warlords of the Sea} type Character so she synergizes with Leader effect, Gecko Moria, and Jinbe. For 1 Don, she can give us a card draw when attacking and blocking.
- Since the list runs cards that order our deck, Sanji can be a good candidate to add to the list.
- Gum-Gum Rain is a defensive event, with the +3k Counter, we get to protect our Leader or an important rested Character we value. Since we have a couple of cards with no counters, we can trash 1 of them to activate Gum-Gum Rain.
- Boa Hancock can prevent one of the opponent’s Characters from attacking on their turn, slowing them down. The Boa Hancock is preferable when the opponent has a threat on the board that can swing for high Power that we don’t want to expend resources into countering.
