I literally forgotten all about Uta as we've got new FILM stuff in OP07 set. You won't need to use all of the new stuff, just 1 or 2 new cards could help the deck. Although it will still be all about the old cards who can make the deck works, unless Bandai will make more FILM supports for this colour. There are still many missing pieces.
1 Cost / Black Stage
Blackbeard Pirates
[Activate: Main] You may trash 1 card from your hand and rest this Stage: Look at 3 cards from top of your deck, reveal up to 1 {Blackbeard Pirates} type card and add it to your hand. Then, place the rest on the bottom of your deck in any order.
| Looks like we got our searcher since most standard searchers are on play effects, but we do have some Characters that have activate main, and you will need to pay 1 DON to trigger those searchers. Won't be surprising if Blackbeard Pirates will have those type of searcher like this Stage. I guess instead of paying a DON, you will need to trash a card in your hand for the search effect to work. So you won't be gaining anything, but at least we can search for any Blackbeard Pirates cards. |
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There's a few cards revealed in this video, although the release date for OP09 is very close, so we might see an unboxing video very soon. Lets just say, I am looking forward to some of the cards in OP09 set as they are supporting some older decks rather than focusing on the new stuff, as I really don't want to make a new deck every set, I just want to use my favourite Leader for once. I think we've got 1 new card revealed for each colour in this video, although 1 of them works with Law which is getting ban in September, but there are alternative decks we can use that card.
1 Cost / Blue Event
Cross Guild
[Main] Look at 4 cards from top of your deck, reveal up to 1 {Cross Guild} type card and add it to your hand. Then, place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order.
[Trigger] Activate this card's [Main] Effect.
| Just a searcher and nothing else I can add. But I guess we could look for any Cross Guild cards including itself. It may come in handy if we can search for any Cross Guild cards, but at the same time, I think we will be very limited which is why they didn't decide to put restrictions on this card. |
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Yellow Character
5 Cost / 6000 Power (Slash)
Egghead / Straw Hat Crew
[Counter +1000]
[Trigger] If your Leader has the {Egghead} type and your opponent has 6 or more cards in their hand, your opponent trashes 2 cards from their hand.
| More Egghead stuff, and I definitely take it. Not only Brook is a 6k beat stick in which we can easily play him for free thanks to Vegapunk's effect, but we also have a trigger effect that forces your opponents to discard. As we are not attacking with Vegapunk, plus some set up, your opponents can easily get a massive hand size from searching and draw power, so Brook will really help if your opponents decide to attack your Leader. |
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Black Character
3 Cost / 4000 Power (Slash)
Blackbeard Pirates
[Counter +2000]
[DON!!x1] [When Attacking] You may trash 2 cards from your hand: Draw 2 cards.
| Just a simple, trash and draw which is different than draw and trash. I prefer draw and trash as it gives me more choices to discard rather than discard first to draw, unless I know which cards I won't be using. More important, Shiryu is not restricted to Blackbeard Pirates build, so we can use him in other decks, especially decks that set up the trash. Not to mention, he has a 2k counter, so even if you don't play him, the counter power will come in handy. |
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I didn't expect this, almost simultaneously, only difference is that we've got a few more days than JP format. The downside is that we won't be able to play OP08 Law version of the deck, personally good for me as I won't need to post Law build. I will also need to find an alternative for Enies Lobby, but I will do that for OP08 Lucci build as we will get more CP cards to use. Definitely slow down cost reducing for Lucci build as Enies Lobby is one of our key card. So Lucci might take a major blow to the deck, who knows. Personally for me, I'm more worried about OP09 Blackbeard deck as that deck will shut down a lot of things.
Currently, this is just for JP Format, Eng format might be in the middle of OP08 set. Honestly, I am not surprised, after Blue/Black Sakazuki (or Akainu who I call him), it was Law turn to dominate the meta. Not only that, the new supports always fit Law build perfectly, especially OP08 set makes a huge difference with Black Maria in the build as she can constantly fill up your DONs so you never run out.
Enies Lobby will slow Lucci decks down, they were still pretty good in OP08 set too with the new black support. I think it won't be as difficult to find a replacement, whilst Law is a Leader, meaning the deck will be useless without Law. I guess for OP08 set, I won't be posting Law build to save time and testing.
Black Character
1 Cost / 0 Power (Wisdom)
Animal / Blackbeard Pirates
[Counter +2000]
[Activate: Main] You may trash 1 card from your hand and this character: If your Leader has the {Blackbeard Pirates} type, draw 1 card. Then, give up to 1 of your opponent's Characters -2 cost during this turn.
| Looks like we got Tsuru replacement, but of course we have to sacrifice him for the effect to work. It is just a hand filter card but that cost reducing will come really handy as we are restricted to activate main effects. That is all I can say for this card. |
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Another ST13 Leader who got a nice upgrade is Ace with 2 cards in OP07 set. I think it does help the consistency to trigger Ace's effect and spam the 5 drops to the field. Although I guess this deck is similar to Reiju build where we are base the deck on one colour more than the other, whilst we only splash a little of that colour to the deck because we can use those colours.
Black Character
10 Cost / 12000 Power (Special)
The Four Emperors / Blackbeard Pirates
[Blocker]
[Activate: Main][Once Per Turn] If your Leader has {Blackbeard Pirates} type, and this Character was played this turn, Up to 1 of your opponent's Leader effect is negated for the turn. Then, up to 1 of your opponent's Characters effects are negated until the end of your opponent's next turn, that character also cannot attack.
We got 2 cards that can support Ace deck in OP07 set, but it is up to you if you want to run them or not as we want to keep the room for the Whitebeard Pirates stuff as the base of the deck. Although, because Ace focus more on Events, we do lack the room to fit all the cards we want to add into this build.
There's not much of an update for this build, although EB01 version might be better as that deck have more control cards compare to this build who focus more on spamming low power Characters. Of course with Crocodile effect who only works on your opponent's turn, it means some cards we want to use just won't work. I mean, we could add that card to the build, but it will take a while to trigger the effect.
2 Cost / Purple Event
The Four Emperors / Straw Hat Crew
[Main] DON!!-2: Rest up to 1 of your opponent’s Characters with a cost of 5 or less. Then, draw 1 card.
[Trigger] Add up to 1 DON!! card from your DON!! deck and set it as active.
| My first thought is to use this card in G/P Doffy build as this Event works really well with that deck and especially Birdcage. It is not a Counter effect, so we don't need to wait for your opponent's to attacks, since that is one way to get around Birdcage. I will be looking forward in testing this card, and the trigger effect is the same as yesterday event. |
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2 Cost / Purple Event
The Four Emperors / Straw Hat Crew
[Main] DON!!-2: K.O. up to 1 of your opponent’s Characters with 6000 power or less.
[Trigger] Add up to 1 DON!! card from your DON!! deck and set it as active.
| Well, this looks like Jet Pistol with the use of returning DONs back to deck and we get to ramp for the trigger effect instead of activate main. I guess with R/P Luffy, we can run both removal in the deck to KO your opponent's 6k power or less Characters, plus with some power reducer will enable us to KO any Characters we want. |
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A 1 card support makes me want to revive this Oden build, although I think I've made an EB01 version of this, but with OP07, it is even better as we have more searchers. I have completely changed the build compare to EB01 version, so the deck style will be a bit different as we are focused more on Wano cards thanks to the searchers.
2 Cost / Blue Event
Buggy Pirates
[Counter] Up to 1 of your Leader or Character cards gains +3000 power during this battle. Trash up to 2 cards from your hand. Then, trash the same number of cards from the top of your deck.
<Trigger> Draw a card.
| I'm liking OP09 set, first we've got upgrades for Belo Betty and now we've got upgrades for Nami mill deck. The trashing 2 cards from hand will help as we get a massive hand size thanks to the draw power. Plus, it will be easier to use some Events who needs low hand size, so we can draw cards and deck out easier for Nami deck. I'll take this. |
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1 Cost / Yellow Event
Revolutionary Army
[Counter] Up to 1 of your Leader or Character cards gains +2000 power during this battle.
[Trigger] Play up to 1 {Revolutionary Army} type Character cards with a cost of 4 or less from your hand.
| I'll take this, I know the counter effect doesn't do much, but what I want is the trigger effect where we can play Characters from our hand, filling up the field for Belo Betty Leader's effect. Also, I think this also works with Karasu, as Karasu get to reduce 1 of your opponent's Leader or Characters by 1k for a turn. Maybe, I'll run both, although I doubt you need more than 2 for the 3 drop counter to play Characters. Well, it will depends if the deck will have room for these Events, since we just want the trigger effect to play stuff for fre. |
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1 Cost / Black Event
Blackbeard Pirates
[Main] Look at 3 cards from the top of your deck, reveal up to 1 {Blackbeard Pirates} type card other than [This is My Age!!!!] and put it into your hand. Then, trash the rest
[Trigger] Activate this card’s [Main] effect
| So basically this card is just OP03 Spandam where we search and mill building up the trash. Although since Blackbeard Leader doesn't allow on play effects, I doubt we can use the old cards who make use of the trash. Anyway, this is not a bad Event, and I'll take it as it is a searcher, and searchers are always great in these kind of type builds. |
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Queen is back again with 1 new card that would work really well with Queen ability. But like last time, the deck is pretty much very straight forward as our main aim is to stall until we can spam Queen's effect and get some cards into our Life area making the game last as long as possible. It is still a very defensive deck as this is what this deck style is mainly.
2 Cost / Red Event
Red-Haired Pirates
[Main] If your Leader has the {Red-Haired Pirates} type, give up to 1 of your opponent’s Characters -3000 power during this turn. Then, if your opponent has a Character with power 5000 or more, draw 1 card.
<Trigger> Draw 1 card.
| Ah, this is Shanks best line in the series where he goes serious mode. There's also the Marineford scene too. Anyway, the effect is not bad, it does seems like Shanks build focus more on reducing your opponent's Characters power, but I like the draw power. Although lately, I have seen a lot more Events that just says Draw 1 card for the trigger effect, I don't know if it because they want to balance things out a little instead of activate this card main's effect, or other trigger effects they could use. |
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RG Law is back again with the new Supernovas supports in OP07, however, just like most old Leaders, we won't be using a lot of the new cards as the base of the deck is very strong. However, I still want to focus on the same aggressiveness for this build as we are able to do plenty of multi attacks thanks to the Supernovas cards working together.
1 Cost / Purple Event
The Four Emperors / Straw Hat Crew
[Counter] DON!!-2, You may trash 1 card from your hand: If your Leader has the {Straw Hat Crew} type, give up to 1 of your Leader or Character cards +4000 power during this battle. Then, draw 2 cards.
| This is not bad, and there are several Straw Hat Leaders we could use, yes you do return 2 DONs, but 1 of your card gains 4k power, and you draw 2 cards. Although you do discard a card so it will be only +1 in your hand. However, this doesn't have a Life requirements so we could use this very early if we need to which is very nice to have. I actually can't wait to try this in builds like Purple Luffy deck and not just the new Nika Luffy Leader. |
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There's not much upgrades for Perona deck, but I've completely changed the engine so we could use the new supports for this build. The deck is using Wano based but with some black supports. But the black supports are mainly just to help the deck especially with some of the Wano cards we want to pull off.
Yellow Character
7 Cost / 7000 Power (Special)
Revolutionary Army
[Counter +1000]
[On Play] Place up to 1 {Revolutionary Army} type Character from your hand on top of your Life cards face up. Then, if you have 2 or more life, add 1 card from the top or bottom of your Life card into your hand.
<Trigger> If your Leader is multicolored, draw 2 cards.
| I am personally very excited to update Belo Betty deck with OP09 cards since OP07 doesn't really work too well together, whilst OP09 suits Belo Betty very well. Although, the 2 yellow cards that have been revealed feels like very high cost. Koala being a 6 cost and Sabo being a 7 cost. I know Belo Betty doesn't really care about DONs, but I do want to use those DONs to power up the Characters over playing them. I guess at least Sabo lets you draw cards and that is very important in Belo Betty build who lacks draw power to make it really good. |
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Red Character
4 Cost / 6000 Power (Slash)
Red-Haired Pirates
[Counter +1000]
