The new support from EB01 set makes this deck pretty good to use as it lets me take out some cards that I won't be needing for this build with other cards. You can replace Smoker with Starter Akainu (Sakazuki) Leader as both deck focus heavily on reducing your opponent's cost as much as possible. But we do have an equal amount of removals in the builds. I won't be running Great Eruption in this build to save time on reposting.
Cost Reducers
As always, we have a lot of cost reducers because we need to reduce your opponent's Characters down to 0 so we can trigger Smoker's effect. EB01 Brook acts as both removal and cost reducer. The effect works on play/when attacking, reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 1 this turn. Then, KO 1 of your opponent's 0 cost Characters. Brook is only a 4k beat stick, so if you want to hit magic numbers, you will need to give him a DON, but I am mainly using him for the effect.
4 drop Kuzan have 2 effects, the first effect is a simple on play, draw a card. The second effect is the main effect I am after and the effect works when attacking, reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 4 this turn. 4 is a nice number as if we combined this with other cost reducers, we could easily make that Character into 0 cost Character.
OP02 Tsuru just have a simple effect, on play, reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 2 this turn. She only cost 1 to play, so if we combined this with other cards, we could easily reduce your opponent's Characters cost to 0.
10 drop Kuzan plays a massive role in this build simply because we need 0 cost Characters to trigger some of the card's effect. Just like the 4 drop version, 10 drop Kuzan also have 2 effects. The first effect works on your turn, reduce all of your opponent's Characters cost by 5. The second effect works on play, KO 1 of your opponent's 0 cost Characters. Unfortunately we don't have any cost reducers who is an activate main, but we do have Brook and 4 drop Kuzan who works when attacking, so if you want to remove like a Character higher than 5, you will need to combine those cards together before you play 10 drop Kuzan.
ST06 Hina works on play, reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 4 this turn. On top of this effect, Hina is also a 5k beat stick, so it is a decent card to have in this build. Beside the more cost you can reduce, the better for the deck at triggering certain cards.
ST06 Helmeppo works on play, reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 3. He only cost 2 to play, but he is mainly used with OP06 Moria to pull off some combos using Moria's effect. Otherwise I wouldn't really use Helmeppo if it wasn't for Moria.
Ice Age is one of our key card. The effect is reduce 1 of your opponent's Characters cost by 5 this turn. 1 DON for 5 is better than playing OP02 Tsuru, but Tsuru also have 2k counter compare to Ice Age. The Trigger effect is KO 1 of your opponent's 3 cost or less Characters. I wouldn't worry too much about this effect as we are mainly aiming for Ice Age main effect to reduce your opponent's Characters cost as much as possible.
Removals
These cards aren't only just removals, they also have decent power to go against your opponent's Leader. EB01 T-Bone works on play, KO 1 of your opponent's 2 cost or less Characters. 2 or less is not difficult to do with the amount of cost reducers we have in the build, plus T-Bone also have 2k counter to use on top of the effect which I find it handy, especially being a Navy card, so searching him will not be difficult at all.
OP02 Akainu works on play, you may trash 1 card from your hand to KO 1 of your opponent's 5 cost or less Characters. What I like about this card is that we won't really care about cost reducers with this effect. However, we could aim at your opponent's higher cost Characters who are 6 cost or above, and try and KO them with this effect. Plus Akainu is also a 7k beat stick which is not bad for 6 cost Character.
OP05 Lucci works on play, you may return 3 cards from your trash to the bottom of your deck in any order. KO 1 of your opponent's 2 cost or less Characters and 1 of your opponent's 1 cost or less Characters. This shouldn't be too difficult to pull off, especially when we have 10 drop Kuzan on the field, reducing your opponent's Character's cost by 5, easily making Lucci a board wipe card. Otherwise you will need to use the other cost reducers to reduce as much as possible to meet the requirements of this effect.
Free Play
Now we got two cards who can let us play Characters for free to fill up the field. OP05 Rebecca is a Blocker with an on play effect, add one 3-7 cost Black Character other than Rebecca from your trash to your hand. Then, play up to one 3 cost or less Black Character from your hand at rest. For 3 cost or less, we do have a few choice to choose from, depending on what you want in play.
OP06 Moria works on play, choose one 4 cost or less Character and one 2 cost or less Character from your trash. Play one as active and the other rested. For 2 cost or less, we don't have much choices which is why I've added Helmeppo to the deck to increase the variety, otherwise you would only have Brannew or Tsuru for 2 drop or less choices.
Blockers
The Blockers with a similar effect. OP02 Kizaru (Borsalino) effect works on your opponent's turn. This Character gains 1k power and cannot be KO'd by effects. We do have ways to bypass this effect like your opponent's Triggers can KO Kizaru as Trigger effects triggers during your turn as you are hitting your opponent's Life. Of course, we have returning for blue style and green who can rest Kizaru, but there's no need to talk about those as people would figured that out awhile ago.
OP04 Sabo on the other hand works on play, none of your Characters can be KO'd by effects until the start of your next turn. Then draw 2 cards and trash 2 cards from your hand. We don't really care much about hand filter effect unless your hand have a lot of non counter cards. We are mainly focusing on the main effect that protects our Characters from being KO'd by effects instead just Kizaru. So we could also swing at your opponent's Life without worry about Trigger effect KOing your Characters.
Deck List
EB01 Smoker |
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Leader Characters x46 Events x4 |
Explanation
The deck is pretty much the same as the previous build where we focus on reducing you opponent's Character costs as much as possible, preferably reaching 0 cost so we could trigger Smoker and Brook effects. Playing 10 drop Kuzan will help dramatically as we wouldn't be needing as much cost reducers to reduce your opponent's Characters cost, plus that card will help OP05 Lucci to KO 2 of your opponent's Characters reducing their field. Plus we could make EB01 Brook more easier to KO 0 cost Characters if 10 drop Kuzan is on the field. There are plenty of beat sticks once you use their on play effects, so I wouldn't worry too much about power.
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