Ever since the introduction of its titular card in the eponymous Starter Deck Side Uta [ST-11], the Green Uta deck has seen much success in ONE PIECE Card Game tournaments the world over. Most recently, Italian player Gianluca Mercuriali used a Green Uta deck to take top spot at the Milan Regional. While it was the deck’s first-ever tournament W, this deck had been consistently placing in the top 10 in the months leading up to Mercuriali’s triumph.

In reality, it isn’t the Leader card after whom this deck is named that’s the deck’s most important card. That honor instead belongs to the Dracule Mihawk card from the Zoro & Sanji [ST-12] Starter Deck. When Zoro & Sanji [ST-12] was launched, the introduction of the Mihawk card provided the deck with tremendous versatility.

When Mihawk is played, the player gets the opportunity to play a Muggy Kingdom-type or Slash-attribute Character apart from any other Mihawk card. That card must also have a cost of 4 or less from the hand and will enter play in a rested state. By doing so at opportune moments, the player can easily dictate the tempo of the game. Mihawk pairs well with the Brook card from Paramount War [OP-02] because Brook can also be used to control the pace of play.

Two other cards that are crucial to the deck’s strategy are Nami from Paramount War [OP-02], and Eustass Kid from Romance Dawn [OP-01]. Kid boasts a power of 8000, a cost of 8, and the ability to redirect all attacks targeted at the player’s other Characters to itself. Nami is the deck’s draw engine; that card is mainly used to obtain important FILM-type cards from the deck—of which there are many. This effect dovetails nicely with Uta’s Leader effect which has the player reveal 1 card from the top of the deck and add a FILM-type card to the hand.

Mulliganing with this deck doesn’t depend on whether the player goes first or second. Instead, it depends on the Leader card of the opponent’s deck. If the opponent is playing a Black Moria deck, mulliganing should be for Mihawk. In all other cases, Kid should be prioritized when mulliganing.

The minimum cost of all the cards in a Green Uta deck is 36,630 JPY (~US$235).

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