The One Piece card game Championship Series in Hiroshima had a lot of intense games as players battled it out to make it into the top cut. The OP09 meta has a variety of different archetypes performing well in competitive tournaments. Decks like Blue Doflamingo, Purple Luffy, Red Shanks, and Black Marshal D. Teach are popular choices among the best players in the game.
Let’s take a look at the Top 8 decks from the Hiroshima Championship Series and examine the key cards these top players included in their lists!
1st Place Purple Luffy
1xOP05-060
4xOP09-069
2xOP09-071
4xST18-001
2xEB01-061
3xST18-002
4xOP06-076
4xST18-004
1xOP05-070
4xOP05-074
4xST18-003
4xOP07-064
2xOP09-065
4xST18-005
2xOP08-069
2xOP09-119
4xOP09-078The First place in the Hiroshima Championship Series is none other than Purple Monkey D.Luffy! 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.
9-cost Charlotte Linlin 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. 9-cost Charlotte Linlin is great for removing a Character from play and gaining a Life card, 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.
2nd Place Black Marshal D.Teach
1xOP09-081
2xOP05-088
4xOP09-089
4xOP09-095
4xOP09-090
2xOP09-091
1xOP04-089
4xOP09-088
4xEB01-048
4xOP09-086
4xOP09-083
4xOP09-093
4xOP09-096
4xEB01-051
2xOP09-098
3xOP09-099In the second place, Marshal D.Teach reigns as one of the strongest Black control decks in OP09 meta. This deck 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. Laboon 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.
3rd Place Black Marshal D. Teach
1xOP09-081
4xOP09-089
4xOP09-095
4xOP09-090
4xST08-007
3xOP09-088
4xEB01-048
4xOP09-086
4xOP09-083
4xOP09-093
4xOP09-096
4xEB01-051
3xOP09-098
4xOP09-099Another Black Marshal D.Teach list in the top 4! This one looks a tad different than the second-place list, running 4 copies of Nefeltari Vivi. Nefeltari Vivi is a 3-cost Blocker to protect your Leader or more importantly to protect Laboon and Van Augur. Additionally, her trigger effect lets you play her for free without spending any Don.
4th Place
Top 8 Black Yellow Luffy
1xST13-003
2xST13-012
4xEB01-056
4xST13-013
4xOP06-106
4xST13-007
2xST13-010
4xST13-014
1xST13-005
3xOP02-096
4xOP04-083
4xOP07-109
4xST13-015
2xST13-011
4xOP06-086
4xST13-019Black Yellow Luffy makes it to the top 8 in the Hiroshima Championship Series! This is one of the hardest decks to pilot correctly in the One Piece card game. This deck wants to take early hits to start activating Leader Luffy’s effect once it fulls to 0 Life cards. The plan is to place adult brothers in your Life Area and cheat them out on the field through the kid brothers. For each kid brother you activate, your Leader gains +2,000 Power until the end of the opponent’s upcoming turn. This makes it exceptionally hard for opponents to damage your Leader, especially with a 5-cost Sabo blocker in play.
On 10 Don, you’re looking to play Gecko Moria, cheating out two of the kid brothers from the trash and playing out their adult versions. This is the strongest turn for you, developing three Characters and gaining +4,000 Power on Leader Luffy.
Top 8 Blue Doflamingo
1xOP01-060
4xOP01-077
4xOP07-046
2xST17-003
4xST17-005
3xOP06-047
2xOP07-047
4xOP07-040
4xOP07-045
2xST03-004
4xST03-005
4xST17-002
4xEB01-023
4xST17-004
3xOP08-047
1xOP07-057
1xOP06-058The popular Blue Doflamingo was just short of making top 4. This deck is dominating the OP09 meta with the new Starter 17 cards. Most lists are adopting an aggressive playstyle, using the Leader effect and Jinbe to cheat out Characters and go for multiple attacks to bleed opponents out of Counter resources. 4-cost Pudding is also a game changer, so opponents have to keep her in mind so they don’t end up losing resources from their hand.
Characters like 4-cost Law and 6-cost Jozu can remove opponents’ Characters from play, weakening the presence on the field and making it more difficult for them to gain control. This list is running one copy of Gravity Raging Blade Tiger, a control Event to place two 6-cost Characters at the bottom of the opponent’s deck, perfect against decks like Black Yellow Luffy and Green Bonney.
