The ONE PIECE Card Game metagame has shifted significantly following the release of Emperors in the New World [OP-09] as well as the bans imposed on the Enies Lobby card from Pillars of Strength [OP-03] as well as Trafalgar Law card from The Three Captains [ST-10] and thus the Red/Purple Law deck.

Certain new deck archetypes have already begun to supplant long-standing top picks at the peak of the meta. These archetypes are currently the standouts of ONE PIECE Card Game tournaments right now.

Blue Doflamingo

While there’s no outright deck to beat at the moment, the Blue Doflamingo deck currently makes the strongest case for such a claim. In recent weeks, it has claimed victories at various Flagship Battle tournaments around the world. The deck’s newfound metagame prominence has come after receiving several new major additions via the Blue Donquixote Doflamingo Starter Deck [ST-17] as well as general changes in the global meta working in favor of this deck and its strategy.

The main buff that this deck got by way of the Blue Donquixote Doflamingo Starter Deck [ST-17] came in the form of new Seven Warlords of the Sea cards. This makes the deck’s titular Leader card from Romance Dawn [OP-01] more capable of applying early pressure on the opponent and forcing them onto the back foot. Opponents will then be forced to deal with the player’s rested Character cards, sparing the Leader card from harm.

The Blue Doflamingo deck is one of the most resource-efficient decks in the meta right now. Since the Character cards come into play from the deck, resource management becomes a much simpler task. It’s also relatively easy to power up the deck’s late-game attackers; this is once again the result of the deck’s new additions.

Purple Luffy

This deck seemingly came out of absolutely nowhere to become an elite deck; perhaps the biggest reason for its rise was the Red/Purple Law deck’s blacklisting which left a power vacuum among Purple decks; the Purple Luffy deck took full advantage of this. It has been on a molten-hot streak in Japan and Asia-Pacific, picking up a slew of tournament victories in recent weeks and is widely expected to soon catch on in the West as well.

The recent launches of Emperors in the New World [OP-09] as well as the Purple Monkey D. Luffy Starter Deck [ST-18] have aided this deck’s rise tremendously; almost two-thirds of the cards in the revamped version of this deck are from either of the two. Of those cards, by far the most significant is the Gum-Gum Giant card from Emperors in the New World [OP-09] which not only serves as a draw engine; it also jacks up the Power level of either the deck’s Leader card from Awakening of the New Era [OP-05] or any of its Character cards by 4000, making it a crucial late-game play.

This deck is built around DON!! ramping to facilitate earlier plays of high-cost Character cards and thereby put earlier pressure on the opponent. It’s also a deck which seldom bricks because of the effect of the deck’s Leader card which allows the player to add the card on top of the player’s stack of Life cards to the hand.

Black Lucci

Despite the aforementioned ban imposed on the Enies Lobby card, this deck’s standing in the meta has only seen a slight decline; it remains a bona fide powerhouse in tournament play. This is because this deck primarily emphasizes cost reduction of opposing Characters; while Enies Lobby was previously the deck’s most powerful option for this, the card was ultimately just one of multiple cards capable of performing this function.

With this deck, it’s generally difficult for the opponent to keep major threats on the field thanks to the effect of the Rob Lucci Character card from Awakening of the New Era [OP-05]. If that card ends up being trashed, Spandine from the Extra Booster Memorial Collection [EB-01] as well as Gecko Moria from Wings of the Captain [OP-06] can bring that card back whenever necessary. Meanwhile, Who’s-Who and Jack, a pair of cards from Two Legends [OP-08], can be used in tandem with the deck’s titular Leader card from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07] to reduce opposing Characters’ costs and thus enable a resource advantage to be built.

The deck’s Leader card also pairs well with that same Moria card because the Leader card’s effect requires the player to trash two cards from the top of the player’s deck. By using the Moria card, the player can then retrieve one or two Character cards if any were trashed by doing so.

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