Welcome to our One Piece card game Meta Tier list for OP12 LEGACY OF THE MASTER. Here, you’ll find the best-performing One Piece meta decks in the tournament scene.
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Blue Purple Monkey D.Luffy
Explanation
Blue Purple Monkey D. Luffy is a 6,000 Power Leader with 3 Life cards, featuring a built-in search effect. If you have 8 Don!! on your field at the start of your turn, you can look at the top 5 cards of your deck, add a {Straw Hat Crew} card to your hand, and reorder the remaining cards on the top or bottom of your deck as you choose.
Since the 8 Don!! requirement is crucial for activating this effect early, the deck runs ramp cards like Zoro-Juurou to accelerate its game plan. This allows you to trigger Luffy’s ability a turn earlier and start playing high-cost Characters sooner to dominate the board.
8-cost Charlotte Katakuri acts as a defensive wall, blocking an opponent’s attack. He can turn himself Active at the end of your turn, making him an offensive and defensive threat, letting you attack without losing a blocker.
9-cost Sanji is the deck’s strongest play. Thanks to Leader Luffy’s search effect, you can stack your deck to guarantee that Sanji cheats out a high-cost win condition when played.
Green Roronoa Zoro
Green Roronoa Zoro can go for multiple Leader attacks, putting tons of pressure on the opposing player by either KOing their Characters and threatening to take a Life card. You have to attach 3 Don to your Leader before attacking a rested Character, and from there, you can re-stand Roronoa Zoro to attack their Leader or a Character with a cost of 8 or more.
Multiple Characters in this list give us Don, such as Kuina, Cavendish, and Tashigi, allowing us to activate our Leader effect without sacrificing board development.
As for Mihawk, he’s a high-power Blocker that sets 4 of your Don as Active, enabling a strong turn with your Leader’s effect or to develop a second Character alongside him.
Luffy Is the Man Who Will Become the King of Pirates!!! is how we plan our winning turn, giving us an opportunity to attack with Leader Roronoa Zoro multiple times to aggro the opponent down.
Green Purple Monkey D.Luffy
Explanation
Green Purple Monkey D.Luffy relies on {Straw Hat Crew} type Characters, returning 2 Don and setting 2 of your Don as Active and +1,000 Power on your Leader. The deramping can be brutal, so it’s best to save it until the late game so you don’t fall too behind on Don. The extra Don you gain allows you to make more plays on a specific turn and even go for aggressive attacks to win the game.
The list has Sanji & Pudding for ramping, make sure even when you deramp, you don’t fall behind your opponent in Don. 6-cost Monkey.D.Luffy is the strongest aggressor, going for two attacks in one turn, and if you combo him with Gum-Gum Giant Pistol, you could win the game if your opponent is at 1 Life card.
Luffy-Tarou acts as a great play to develop two Characters in one turn, capable of cheating out 4-cost Zoro-Juuro or 5-cost Sanji & Pudding. Other lists run Eustass”Captain”Kid, enabling the birdcage strategy and preventing your opponent from attacking your Leader or rested Characters.
Green Jewelry Bonney
Explanation
Green Bonney can be frustrating to face, largely due to her ability to rest one of the opponent’s attackers. While the Bonney player needs 1 Active Don to trigger the effect, it significantly slows down the opponent’s offense and preserves the Bonney player’s Counter resources.
This deck excels at a defensive game plan, stalling out games until high-cost threats start dropping. Blockers and the 5-cost Carrot further reinforce this strategy, buying time to either clear the opponent’s field or transition into a more aggressive stance against their Leader.
The Fortress strategy with Eustass”Captain”Kid forces opponents to find an answer for the kid or risk losing the game. It can be a challenge to break through, mostly because of Bonney’s resting effect and Rosninate protecting Kid from a KO effect.
9-cost Shanks can KO a rested Character, saving you from needing to attack it. As for 10-cost Doflamingo, he lost popularity in OP10 but remains a consideration to add to the list. Doflamingo can keep three of the opponent’s attackers rested, reducing the pressure of their upcoming turn.
7-cost Hody Jones is your main aggressor, dropping on the field, resting two characters, and going for an immediate attack with his Rush keyword. Whether you focus on clearing the field or attacking the opponent’s leader will depend on the game’s current state.
Black Marshall D. Teach
Explanation
Black Marshall D.Teach 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. Tempest Kick 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 Silvers Rayleigh
Leader Silvers Rayleigh changes the rules of your deck building, forcing you to add 4-cost or less cards to your deck only. This can be restrictive, but it does play into your Silvers Rayleigh’s strategy. During your turn, once per turn, you may reveal two Events in your hand to the opposing player, then pick one of your 4,000 base Power or less Characters and give them a +2,000 Power boost, turning them into a more threatening attacker.
The list runs a lot of Events to make sure you can consistently activate your Leader’s effect, boosting the Power of Characters like Boa Hancock, Sanji, and 4-cost Luffy to play more aggressively.
Blue Buggy
Blue Buggy received tons of support cards in the Starter 26, giving the deck better consistency to its strategy. This deck thrives on cheating out Characters, having cards like the 4-cost Buggy, Crocodile, and 7-cost Buggy to play out a Character and empower your board.
We want to fill up the board so we can play our 10-cost Luffy and keep it in play. Using our Leader effect, we can play out high-cost Characters for less Don, enabling us to make other plays on specific turns.
Since we’re developing multiple Characters a turn, we can go for aggressive turns, trying to rush the opponent down and forcing them to play defensively rather than targeting your Leader.
Black Purple Luffy
Attaching a Don to Monkey D. Luffy will give all your Characters a +1 cost, making them harder to KO for certain decks. It also allows you to activate Character effects that are tied to Character cost conditions, like 5-cost Sanji.
Leader Luffy’s second effect activates whenever you return two or more Don, giving you back two Don cards—one active and one rested. This lets us play powerful cards with deramp drawbacks without worrying about the cost. In fact, with Luffy’s effect, we can actually turn that drawback into an advantage.
This deck uses 5-cost and 7-cost Sanji’s to help control the mid-game. The 26 Luffy creates a defensive and offensive strategy, giving your Leader a +2,000 Power for heavier attacks and a more difficult Leader to damage.
To close out games, we have the EB02 Luffy to go for 2 attacks in one turn, pressuring the opposing player and forcing them to have the Counter resources to survive your onslaught.
Red Green Smoker
Explanation
Red Green Smoker has two effects, one can be activated during your opponent’s turn, while the other is activated during your turn. The effect during your opponent’s turn works only on {Punk Hazard} and {Navy} type Characters, giving them +1,000 Power. This is useful when the opponent is trying to KO them, the extra Power can put them out of threat range or demand fewer Counter cards from you. As for the other effect, if you have a Character with 7,000 or more Power, you can set two of your Don as Active. This enables you to make more plays in one turn or develop on the field and maintain your pressure with high-power attacks.
5-cost Smoker is a powerful {Punk Hazard} Character you can protect with your Leader effect. 5-cost Smoker has the Banish keyword means we’ll prioritize attacking the opponent’s Leader with him, forcing them to Counter the attack or trash a Life card. As for the second effect, it sets one of your Don as Active. Combined with your Leader effect, you’re gaining 3 Active Don for one explosive turn.
7-cost Hody Jones is a Rush aggressor, resting two of the opponent’s Characters or Don before going for an immediate 8,000 Power attack. As for the 8-cost Mihawk, he’s an 8,000 Power blocker that sets 4 of your Don as Active. So, you can play one of your 5-cost Characters alongside him to go wider on the field.
Green Yellow Trafalgar Law
Explanation
The Green Yellow Trafalgar Law is an aggressive type deck that heavily relies on {Supernova} type Characters to synergize with the Leader effect. To activate Leader Law’s effect, you need to have Characters in play with a total cost of 5 or more and attach a Don to Leader. Then you can reveal the top card in your Life area. If that card is a {Supernova} type Character with a cost of 5 or less, you can play it on the field.
So what we’re doing is developing an extra Character for only 1 Don attached to our Leader, but we are losing one Life card, so we have to be careful when activating it multiple times. The list is packed with {Supernova} type Characters like the two 5-cost Laws, 5-cost Jewelry Bonney, and 5-cost Cavendish to ensure we find a Supernova Character to cheat out on the field.
7-cost Trafalgar Law’s effect is perfect for this deck, allowing you to add a 5-cost Supernova Character to the top of your Life area so you can cheat it out through the Leader effect. On top of that, 7-cost Law gives your Leader 1 Don, so you can go for the combo play as early as Don 7.
This list is running the Fortress Strategy, having Eustass”Captain”Kid and blocker Capone”Gang”Bege to create the defensive wall to protect your Leader from attackers. Having Tashigi on the field protects your high-cost Characters like Kid from a removal effect, making it even harder for the opposing player to go through.
Red Roronoa Zoro
Explanation
The aggressive animal zoo Red Zoro uses OP05 and OP08 Tony Tony Choppers to go wider on the field, developing multiple Characters in one turn. The plan is to attach a Don to your Leader to increase the Power of all your Characters by +1,000 during your turn, making them more aggressive and likely to get their attacks through.
Your main plan is to attack their Leader and drop them low enough so that your Rush attackers become a constant problem for the opposing player. Eventually, they’ll fall to 0 Life cards and will struggle to block your attack.
Red Shanks
Explanation
Shanks is a strong choice in OP10, utilizing his power-reduction effect to weaken opponents’ aggression and extend games until his heavy hitters can take over.
While Red decks are typically known for their aggressive playstyle, often relying on Rush attackers to force quick wins, Shanks takes a different approach. He prefers a control strategy, KOing opponents’ Characters to remove threats to your field or Leader. However, there is another version that adopts the aggressive approach, valuing Rush attackers over Characters with KO effects.
Key cards like the 7-cost Benn Beckman and 10-cost Shanks are perfect at KOing opponents’ Characters, turning the tide in your favor.
Black Rob Lucci
Black Rob Lucci is renowned for his control prowess—if you’re not frustrating opponents by removing their win conditions, you’re doing something wrong. The 4-cost Rob Lucci is the MVP of this deck, capable of KOing two Characters on the turn he’s played. Opponents’ Characters need to be at 2 and 1 cost for Lucci to KO, so we use cost-reduction cards to bring them within range of his KO effect.
The list has other removal options like Jack and 10-cost Kuzan, making sure your opponent doesn’t easily establish a field presence and will eventually run out of resources.
Blue Kuzan
Blue Kuzan’s effect synergizes with your Navy-type cards, triggering when a card is trashed from your hand by a Navy card and drawing you a card for it. You are basically cycling your hand for better cards while activating strong Navy effects to put you ahead of the opposing player.
The list is full of Navy Characters that require you to trash a card from your hand to activate their effects. 6-cost Kuzan, 7-cost Sakazuki, and 8-cost Monkey.D.Garp have strong effects to help you shift the game in your favor. You’re trying to outvalue your opponent with this deck, and the longer the game takes, the better the odds are for you to win the game.
Blue Purple Sanji
Blue Purple Sanji returns 1 Don to your Don deck to play a 3-cost or less Straw Hat Crew Event for free. This allows you to play your Events without sacrificing your field development; however, returning Don early into the game can punish us on the upcoming turns. Luckily, Leader Sanji has a built-in ramp effect, activating when he goes for the attack and giving you 1 rested Don if the number of DON!! cards on your field is equal to or less than the number on your opponent’s field.
The ramp effect is perfect since it allows us to play our Events for free without worrying about falling behind in Don. Boeuf Burst is our strongest Event, letting us choose between returning an opponent’s 4-cost or less Character to their hand or drawing 2 cards if we have 6 cards or less in hand.
This deck heavily relies on the 3-cost Sanji and 4-cost Reiju as high-power Characters, capable of attacking and putting pressure on the opponent. For them to gain their Power boosts, you need to trash Events, and since we run many low-cost Events, we aren’t too worried about fulfilling that condition.
Yellow Enel
Enel is the king of Life resources, waiting for opponents to go all-in on an attack and try to survive with 1 Life card. Whenever Enel drops to 0 Life cards, he can trash a card from your hand to place the top card of your deck into your Life area. This can be triggered once per turn, so you’ll need to protect the Life card you just gained.
With cards like Zeus, Gedatsu, and Nami, you can KO your opponent’s Characters, slowing down their attack. The goal isn’t to fully clear their field but to reduce the number of attackers. Fewer attackers mean they’re less likely to pose a serious threat beyond Enel’s Life gain mechanic.
The 8-cost Katakuri offers a versatile effect, allowing you to either remove one of your opponent’s Characters or place one of your own in the Life Area. If you have a Character with a trigger effect, like the 5-cost Shirahoshi, you can place her on top of your Life cards to activate that trigger.
Yamato, Portgas D. Ace, and Enel are your strongest late-game plays, providing a Life card while acting as large, hard-to-remove bodies. To maximize their effects, you’ll want to be at less than 2 Life cards when playing them.
Yellow Eustass”Captain”Kid
Explanation
The Yellow Leader Eustass”Captain”Kid has a powerful defensive effect that activates at the end of your turn. You can switch one of your {Supernova} type Characters to Active and give them the Blocker keyword. This gives you a blocker on the field to protect your Leader or a rested Character, but it can also prevent opponents from attacking a Character you just attacked with.
We have {Supernova} Characters like 4-cost Basil Hawkins, 7-cost Trafalgar Law, and 8-cost Eustass”Captain”Kid that can be used with your Leader effect. If the opposing player KO’s 4-cost Basil Hawkins, they’re forced to trash a Life card, cutting down on their resources and making it easier for you to win the game. 8-cost Eustass”Captain”Kid can also trash the opponent’s top Life card when played on the field, but you’ll have to rest him to activate the effect. However, with our Leader effect, we can turn him back to Active and give him the Blocker keyword to use the 9,000 Power to block one of the opponent’s attacks.
This list has 10-cost Portagas.D.Ace to give you a Life card and ensure you don’t lose the game too easily. The Rush attack can be used to target a rested Character and weaken the opponent’s upcoming turn, or go for their Leader and put them low enough to potentially win the game on the upcoming turn.
Purple Monkey D. Luffy
Explanation
Purple Luffy 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.
8-cost Charlotte Katakuri 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. 8-cost Katakuri is a defensive wall that can go for attacks to pressure the opposing player while remaining as a blocker during your defensive turn, 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.
Blue Yellow Nami
Explanation
Nami is a value Leader, drawing you a card whenever you or your opponent takes a Life card. 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 and Cavendish are your early game attackers, and being 6,000 Power, they can be bothersome for most decks. Kuma fits perfectly in this deck, giving your Leader up to 2 Life cards, which means you get more Leader draw effect throughout the game for more resources.
Kozuki Oden is the aggressor, capable of attacking twice in one turn, and he’s a tough Character to remove for the opposing player, forcing them to attack into him if they wish to KO him.
Lastly, the 8-cost Kid trashes the opponent’s Life card, dropping them on resources, triggering your Leader’s effect, and putting them in a more vulnerable spot to lose the game to your attackers.
Red Yellow Belo Betty
Belo Betty is an aggressive deck, using Trigger and Revolutionary Army cards as part of her game plan. She wants to go wide on the field, and with Emporio Ivankov and Trigger effects, you can easily have multiple Characters in play.
You then use Leader effect to give 3 of your Characters +3,000 Power, turning them all into a threat as they go for attacks. Karasu reduces the Power of one target, and if used on the opponent’s Leader, it can burn their Counter resources as they try to deal with your multiple attackers.
This is a glass cannon deck, focusing most of its resources on attacking the opponent’s Leader as your opponent tries to control your side of the field and slow you down.
Purple Yellow Rosinante
Leader Donquixote Rosinante synergizes with Trafalgar Law Characters, preventing them from getting KO’d by taking a Life card and adding it to your hand. You can only activate this effect once, but getting to keep your Law in play makes it harder for the opposing player to win the field presence.
Rosinante’s synergy with Trafalgar Law doesn’t end there. You can return 1 Don to your Don deck to reduce the cost of the next 4-cost or more Trafalgar Law you play by 2. This lets you play higher-cost Trafalgar Law on earlier turns and even plan for a two-character development in one turn.
Obviously, we’re going to include multiple Trafalgar Laws in this list to get the most out of our Leader’s effect. We have the 4-cost Blocker Law to force your opponent to trash cards from their hand, dropping them lower on resources. The 6-cost Law is another Blocker, with 7,000 Power, he can protect us from attacks while remaining in play.
As for the 7-cost Laws, the Purple Law ramps 1 Active Don if the number of DON!! cards on your field is equal to or less than the number on your opponent’s field. This will come in handy since our Leader effect de-ramps to play Laws at lower cost, making sure we don’t fall behind in the game in terms of Don cards. Purple Law will also boost the Power of [Donquixote Rosinante] and {Heart Pirates} type Characters until the end of the opponent’s next turn.
The Yellow 7-cost Law gives us a Life card, adding a protection layer to our Leader and forcing the opponent to go for an additional attack if they wish to win the game.
Yellow Black Koala
Black Yellow Koala loves 8-cost or more Characters, both yours and your opponent’s. She’s a value Leader that draws you a card when she attacks the opponent’s Leader, but you have to have two or more 8-cost or more Characters in play.
In hindsight, this effect might seem too difficult to activate; however, the list has cards like Bartholomew Kuma, Nico Robin, Hack, and Karasu that can increase their cost to 8 or higher through their effects, making it easier for you to activate your Leader’s draw effect and gain more resources.
I mentioned that Koala loves the opponent’s 8-cost or more Characters. This is because her second effect activates when your opponent plays one on the field, forcing them to take a Life card and add it to their hand. This puts their Leader at fewer Life cards, making it easier for you to plan your winning turn.
Bartholomew Kuma is an insanely good card, giving your Leader a Life card on the turn he’s played and another Life card when he’s KO’d, making sure your opponent doesn’t get to win the game quickly.
If activating Koala’s draw effect wasn’t easy enough, we have Monkey.D.Dragon cheating out one of our 6-cost or less {Revolutionary Army} type Characters from the trash. So we can play Nico Robin or Bartholomew Kuma along with Dragon, developing two Characters in one turn, allowing us to draw through our Leader, and gaining the defensive effects from Nico Robin and Bartholomew Kuma.
Red Blue Marco
Red Blue Marco is a control Leader, reducing the Power of an opponent’s Character by 2,000, making it vulnerable to your attacks or your removal Characters. 7-cost Edward Newgate and 8-cost Silvers Rayleigh can KO opponent’s Characters and remove higher Power Characters thanks to your Leader effect and cards like Gordon.
Using Leader’s draw effect, you can filter your hand for better cards and then place the card you don’t need at the bottom of your deck. However, since you can play the card at the top of your deck, you can combo your Leader effect with 9-cost Sanji, placing a high-cost Character at the top of the deck to cheat it out through Sanji, developing two big bodies in one turn.
Blue Purple Vinsmoke Reiju
Explanation
The Purple-Blue Vinsmoke Reiju deck revolves around Vinsmoke Characters, Reiju and Ichiji, as key cards for its strategy. The lower-cost versions can cheat out their higher-cost counterparts from the Trash or hand, but require you to return 1 Don to activate their effects. Returning a Don also triggers your Leader’s effect, allowing you to draw a card for extra value.
The 3-cost Porche sets up an aggressive tempo, playing one of your low-cost Vinsmoke Characters, who in turn cheats out their higher-cost version—developing two Characters in the early game.
8-cost Vinsmoke Judge is the deck’s strongest play, enabling you to flood the field with multiple Vinsmoke Characters. The sheer number of Characters can overwhelm opponents, setting you up for a decisive turn to close out the game.
