One Piece card game has an amazing competitive weekend in Hannover, Germany. On August 3rd-4th, the OP07 tournament organized by NoHeroes had 1007 Players. It was a10 Rounds of Swiss BO1 tournament Into a Top 32, where the format changes to best of 3.
First Place: B/Y Monkey D. Luffy
1xST13-003
2xOP02-096
4xOP04-083
4xOP06-086
2xOP06-093
4xEB01-056
4xOP06-106
3xOP07-109
4xST13-007
3xST13-010
3xST13-011
4xST13-013
4xST13-014
4xST13-015
2xOP02-117
3xST13-019
The Black Yellow Luffy is a popular deck in tournaments, capable of crushing the Black Rob Lucci matchup using Sabo’s KO immunity effect. This deck wants to take early damage and fall to 0 Life cards. From there, Leader Luffy starts activating his effect, placing Adult brothers in the Life Area and playing them on the field through Kid Brothers.
Gecko Moria is the main win condition, bringing back two of the kid Brothers from the trash and creating a turn of three Characters development to set up the wincon.
The first place list ran two Kuzan and two Perona. The Kuzan draws you a card and synergizes with the 5-cost Luffy to KO 8-cost or less Characters. As for Perona, she forces opponents to trash a card from hand, cutting down their resources.
Second Place: Blue Nami
1xOP03-040
1xOP02-063
4xOP03-044
4xOP04-041
1xOP04-050
3xOP07-041
4xOP07-054
4xOP01-088
4xOP02-066
4xOP03-054
4xOP03-055
4xOP03-056
4xOP06-059
4xOP07-055
1xOP07-057
4xST03-017
Blue Nami went far in this regionals, ending up losing a close final to the Black Yellow Luffy player. Blue Nami has a completely different strategy than other decks in the meta. With Blue Nami, you want to mill yourself, through trashing and drawing cards until you fall to 0 cards in the deck. This automatically wins you the game through Leader Nami’s rule.
So the main strategy is to save up Don for defensive turns and use your Events to shut down the opponent’s attacks and prolong the game, buying enough time until there are 0 cards left in the deck.
Third Place: Blue/Purple Vinsmoke Reiju
1xOP06-042
1xOP03-044
2xOP06-047
1xP-068
4xOP06-060
4xOP06-061
2xOP06-062
4xOP06-063
3xOP06-064
3xOP06-065
4xOP06-068
4xOP06-069
3xOP07-065
4xOP07-066
4xOP07-072
2xST04-005
1xOP06-078
4xOP06-079
It’s astounding to see Blue Purple Reiju making third place in this tournament! Generally, Reiju is a powerful deck, capable of going head-to-head with most of the meta decks. However, the deck gets stomped by Red Purple Trafalgar Law. The matchup is extremely polarized that most players have dropped the Leader completely to avoid the awful matchup.
This deck returns Don to activate their low-cost Vinsmoke and play their high-cost Vinsmoke that have powerful effects. This deck generates value through Leader and 4-cost Vinsmoke Reiju’s draw effects. Ichiji is a carry Character in this deck, with its Power reduction and Rush attack, it puts an immediate threat on the field.
Juge is this deck’s late-game play to bring back Vinsmoke’s from the trash, creating one powerful turn, setting the stage to win the game.
Black Rob Lucci
1xOP07-079
3xEB01-043
2xEB01-046
2xOP03-080
4xOP03-081
4xOP03-086
4xOP04-083
4xOP05-091
4xOP05-093
4xOP06-086
2xOP06-092
4xOP07-080
2xOP07-091
3xST06-010
4xOP07-096
4xOP03-098
In fourth place, Black Rob Lucci had a great showing, which is to be expected from the best deck in the OP07 meta. This deck controls the field using the KO effects of 4-cost Rob Lucci and 3-cost Brook combined with cost-reduction cards to put Characters in range for the KO effects.
This list has 5-cost Monkey.D.Luffy and 6-cost Brook which can trash an opponent’s Character on the field. The effect to “Trash” instead of “KO” means those two characters can bypass the 5-cost Sabo’s KO immunity, giving you a better matchup against Black Yellow Luffy and the mirror matchup.
Top 8:
Red Purple Law
1xST10-001
4xEB01-003
2xEB01-006
2xOP01-013
2xOP01-025
4xOP06-016
3xP-013
4xEB01-061
2xOP04-064
4xOP05-067
4xOP05-074
4xOP06-069
4xOP07-064
3xST04-005
4xST10-008
4xST10-010
Yellow Enel
1xOP05-098
4xEB01-056
3xEB01-057
3xOP03-116
4xOP03-123
4xOP04-100
4xOP04-112
3xOP05-100
4xOP05-102
4xOP06-101
4xOP07-107
3xOP07-109
4xOP07-119
3xEB01-059
3xOP06-115
Blue Doflamingo
1xOP01-060
4xEB01-023
4xOP01-073
4xOP01-077
1xOP02-054
3xOP05-118
4xOP06-047
4xOP07-040
4xOP07-045
4xOP07-047
2xOP07-051
4xST03-004
4xST03-005
1xOP02-068
3xOP04-056
3xOP06-058
1xOP07-057
Black Gecko Moria
1xOP06-080
3xEB01-046
1xOP02-099
2xOP02-106
3xOP03-078
3xOP03-089
4xOP04-083
4xOP05-091
4xOP06-081
4xOP06-086
4xOP06-090
4xOP06-091
4xOP06-093
3xST06-008
3xST06-010
4xOP02-117
We have different decks in the top 8, proving a healthy and diverse meta. In the top 8, R/P Law, Yellow Enel. Blue Doflamingo, and Black Gecko Moria decks made it far into the tournament.
Each of the decks has different playstyles and strategies:
R/P Law: Has an aggressive playstyle, capable of playing two characters a turn, and removes one of the opponent’s Characters from the field through the Leader effect.
Yellow Enel: This is a control deck that tries to push the games to the late game, through its KO cards to weaken the opponent’s field. Eventually, they’ll run opponents out of steam, making it impossible for them to go through the Leader’s effect.
Blue Doflamingo: This deck can create a strong field development through Leader and Jinbe’s effects. This lets you attack aggressively, and forces players to take a defensive playstyle.
Black Gecko Moria: A control deck using Absalom and Brook to KO Characters and weaken the opponent’s offensive power. 8-cost Gecko Moria is a strong value card to play Characters from the trash and shift the field pressure in your favor.