After about half a year in the ONE PIECE Card Game metagame, the Blue Hancock deck has thus far seen moderate success thus far with solid results in both Flagship Battle and Standard Battle tournaments around the world. This deck is built to excel in the late game after using stalling and card-drawing tactics throughout most of the early and middle phases of the game.

Strategy

In the early game, one card which is hugely important is Sengoku from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07] due to its status as a tool for obtaining crucial cards. If kept around until later in the game, Sengoku also pairs well with the Boa Hancock Character card also from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07]. That card doesn’t just remove opposing Characters to bring the Leader card’s effect into play; it can also remove the player’s own Characters—including that Sengoku card. Since Sengoku’s effect activates upon being played, pairing it with the Hancock Character card allows it to be activated multiple times.

The deck’s titular Leader card from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07] is the deck’s primary draw engine. After removing an opposing Character from the field through another card’s effect, the player gets to draw an additional card if the player has 5 or fewer cards in hand. For Character removal, cards such as Gum-Gum Red Roc from Kingdoms of Intrigue [OP-04] and Gravity Blade Raging Tiger from Wings of the Captain [OP-06] can be used. These cards, as well as the Boa Hancock Character card, are best played in the mid-game.

To finish things off, the player can bring in Kaido from Awakening of the New Era [OP-05]. In addition to the card’s massive Power of 12000, it allows the player to draw four additional cards as long as the opponent has 3 Life cards or fewer. The longer the player can keep the Kaido card in play for, the more pressure is placed on the opponent—ideally leading to an opportunity to seal the win.

The toughest matchup for this deck is the Yellow Enel deck. Since that deck primarily relies on making use of many cards in the opponent’s hand, the Charlotte Pudding card from Wings of the Captain [OP-06] is important in that matchup because it reduces the number of cards in the opponent’s hand. The Donquixote Doflamingo card from Romance Dawn [OP-01] can help the player land the Pudding card earlier. Generally, the player should seek to build up a board of multiple attackers, then close things out in the late game with a flurry of attacks from these different Characters.

Price

Buying every card in a Blue Hancock deck will cost at least 20,630 JPY (~US$142).

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