The ONE PIECE Card Game Festa 2025: 3on3 CUP brought some of the strongest competition we’ve seen in the brand-new OP13 format. This team-based event highlighted how the latest Leaders and archetypes from OP13 are already shaping the meta, with players combining skill, coordination, and strategy to push their decks to the limit.
Here are the winning team’s decklists from the tournament, giving you a first look at the strategies that rose above the rest.
Day 1 Game Festa 2025 3on3 CUP
1st Place Decks
Red Blue Ace
Red Blue Ace is currently one of the strongest decks in the meta, quickly climbing to the top and becoming a top contender to beat. His defensive power reduction effect, combined with his draw engine, makes it extremely hard for opponents to set up a winning turn.
The list has multiple cards with a draw effect, ensuring you get to outvalue the opposing player and win the late game. This deck heavily relies on the Newgates to carry the late-game, capable of cheating one of them a turn earlier than expected to put a high-power win condition on the field and start pressuring the opposing player.
Your Newgates also offer defensive effects, making it harder for opponents to attack and win the game.
Black Imu
Another deck that has been crushing the competitive scene is Black Imu, relying heavily on the Celestial Dragons as part of its strategy.
Black Imu changes the rules of the game, prohibiting you from adding any Event with a cost of 2 or more to your deck. Additionally, at the start of your turn, Imu lets you play 1 {Mary Geoise} type Stage card from your deck. This is exceptionally strong as we’re able to set up The Empty Throne at the start of our turn without having to search or use Don for it. The 1-cost Mary Geoise is mainly for the mirror matchup, so your opponent doesn’t get to remove it with their Never Existed… in the First Place…
Black Imu can also generate value, letting you trash a {Celestial Dragons} type Character or 1 card from your hand to draw 1 card. So, if we have a Celestial Dragon Character on the field that isn’t needed, we can trash it for the additional draw to help find cards we need.
The Empty Throne lets us play a {Five Elders} type Character card for less Don as long as we have enough Don equal to their cost. This means we get to make stronger plays and even develop multiple Characters in one turn.
10-cost Five Elders is our strongest play, which we’ll aim to play through The Empty Throne when we hit 10 Don. Five Elders trashes all your Characters and lets you cheat out 5 {Five Elders} type Character cards with 5000 power and different card names from your trash. This means in one turn, we’re filling up our side of the field with St. Jaygarcia Saturn, St. Topman Warcury, St. Ethanbaron V. Nusjuro, St. Marcus Mars, and St. Shepherd Ju Peter. They’re all 5,000 Power Characters, but St. Shepherd Ju Peter will push them to 7,000, turning them into a threat to close out the game on the upcoming turn.
Green Roronoa Zoro
Green Roronoa Zoro remains a solid choice for competitive play! However, the list has changed up a bit, with most players kicking out the 8-cost Mihawk for the new 10-cost Shanks.
Leader Zoro is a carry on his own, attaching 3 of your Don to your Leader activates his effect, enabling him to attack twice in one turn. There is a restriction to it, though, as the effect only activates when you’re attacking a Character. Then, Zoro cannot attack a character with a base cost of 7 or less during this turn. You’re basically controlling the board with Green Roronoa Zoro while still attacking the opponent’s Leader to threaten a Life card, putting your opponent in a tough situation where they have to decide whether their rested unit or their Life card is worth more to protect.
Kuina and Tashigi are perfect enablers for Leader Zoro, resting one of the opponent’s Characters and attaching 3 Don to your Leader, allowing Zoro to attack that Character and still go for another attack on the opponent’s Leader or an 8-cost or more Character.
On top of that, we have Luffy Is the Man Who Will Become the King of Pirates!!! to re-stand our Leader to attack again. This can be a game finisher when your opponent is low on Life cards.
2nd Place Decks
Red Black Sabo
Red Black Sabo is a 5,000 Power Leader with the downside of reducing his own Power by 1,000 as long as you have 4 or more Life cards. So, you’re essentially posing less threat with your attacks early in the game, and your lower power makes it easier for the opponent to take your first 2 Life cards.
However, that downside changes when you play a Character with a cost of 8 or more and attach a Don to Leader Sabo. Now, you gain a +1,000 Power boost on your Leader and all your Characters during your and your opponent’s turn until the 8-cost Character is removed. This enables heavier attacks but also makes it harder for the opposing player to get their attacks through or remove your field.
This is a Dressrosa/ Revolutionary Army type Leader, so we have access to a lot of support cards that can enable your Leader’s effect. Hack and 6-cost Sabo are perfect to get access to an 8-cost Character as early as possible to enable your Leader.
The 8-cost Black Dragon lets you go wider on the field, setting up a strong upcoming attack turn. As for the Red version, he’s best played if you need an immediate Rush attack to put some aggression on the opposing player.
Red Purple Gol D.Rogers
Gol.D.Roger is our first 7,000 Power Leader! However, his effect will drop him by -2,000 Power until you can hit 9 Don or more. Additionally, at the start of your turn, if you add Don, one of those Don cards will automatically attach to your Leader, which can prevent you from making certain plays.
The main mid-game strategy is to ramp to hit 9 Don as quickly as possible to remove the -2,000 Power reduction. To do that, we have Douglas Bullet, Kouzuki Oden, Donquixote Doflamingo, and Scopper Gaban to give us that early to mid-game ramp to speed up our strategy.
Once Gol.D.Roger goes to 7,000 Power, he becomes a tough Leader to break through, and can go for heavy attacks to start threatening Life cards. This list also includes Edward.Newgate and Shanks as high-cost win conditions that aid you in your defensive strategy.
10-cost Gol.D.Roger is more of a finisher play, preventing the opposing player from activating their blockers if they’re down to 0 Life cards.
Red Blue Ace
Day 2 Game Festa 2025 3on3 CUP
1st Place Decks
Green Roronoa Zoro
Red Blue Ace
Black Imu
2nd Place Decks
Red Silvers Rayleigh
Red Silvers Rayleigh is still considered the strongest aggressive Red deck out there, aiming to go wide on the field with the help of 4-cost Luffy to plan multiple attacks and overwhelm the opposing player.
Your Leader’s ability to give a +2,000 Power boost adds to your aggression, turning one of your low-cost Characters into an attack to force Counter cards from the opposing player.
The list has 3-cost Zoro and Kid & Killer for the Rush attacks, keeping the aggressive attacks going, and enabling you to set up a winning turn if your opponent is down to 1 Life card.
Red Blue Ace
Black Imu
