Huge One Piece Ban List Changes: Goodbye Pudding, Hello Kingdom Come!

It's March 16, 2026, and as promised, Bandai has announced some major changes to the One Piece Card Game Banned/Restricted Card List.

These changes will go into effect on April 1, 2026, the same day Block 1 cards will rotate out of Standard Regulation. Here is a summary of the changes:

Banned

• OP06-047 Charlotte Pudding

Unbanned

• OP07-045 Jinbe
• EB01-059 Kingdom Come

Unbanned (But Rotating)

• ST06-015 Great Eruption
• OP02-024 Moby Dick
• OP03-098 Enies Lobby
• OP02-117 Ice Age

Here are more details about the cards being banned and unbanned, plus some initial takeaways about where today's announcement leaves the game on the eve of its first block rotation.

The March 16 2026 One Piece Ban List Changes

As many players hoped, the March 16 Ban List Announcement removed one of the most controversial cards in the One Piece Card Game. What was harder to anticipate was that this one ban would be accompanied by six unbans, of varying levels of impact.

Banned: OP06-047 Charlotte Pudding

Charlotte Pudding has been the premier hand disruption card in the One Piece Card Game for years. Playable in any blue deck, Pudding punishes opponents who try to make their boards unassailable by building up huge hands full of counter.

While some players appreciated the role Pudding played in keeping this kind of strategy in check, many others hated how the mere threat of Pudding could feel oppressive to decks that were built to draw lots of cards. Big hands aside, any decks that relied on Counter Events dreaded going against Pudding, since any work they did line up their defenses could be undone in an instant.

Banning Pudding was the biggest move Bandai made today. Though as we'll see, the move they didn't make could be considered even bigger.

Unbanned: OP07-045 Jinbe

Jinbe was originally banned on April 1, 2025 due to its power in Blue Doflamingo decks. With Doflamingo rotating, Jinbe doesn't have an obvious home in the upcoming format, so the risk is low that it'll be problematic—especially given the power creep over the last year.

Unbanned: EB01-059 Kingdom Come

Bandai originally banned Kingdom Come at the same time as Jinbe citing its power alongside Yellow Enel, and the way it limited high-cost characters. Given those reasons, it's not clear why Bandai decided to unban the card now. Enel remains in the format post-rotation, and yellow decks have even more ways to turn low Life from a downside into an upside—most notably EB04-058 Borsalino, a card so busted that players were expecting Bandai would take action to reduce its power instead of strengthen it.

With Gum-Gum Red Roc rotating and more Sky Island support coming in Adventure on Kami's Island (OP-15) on April 3, Kingdom Come is well positioned to be the new premier removal Event in the One Piece Card Game.

Unbanned: Four Rotating Cards

Bandai also announced unbans for four cards that are going to rotate out of Standard on April 1. Since these unbans will also occur on April 1, there will be no overlapping period during which these cards will be legal in Standard play.

These unbans appear to only affect Extra Regulation play, where these four cards will likely be strong, but not game-breaking given the amount of power creep since they were printed. They may become more relevant in Extra Regulation after the release of the Whitebeard and Navy cards coming in OP-16.

Winners of Today's Bans

Aside from Kingdom Come's Market Price, here are a few of the obvious winners from today's Ban List update.

Big-Hand Decks

Any deck that hated to run into Pudding will be glad to see the card gone. That includes decks like Ace and Imu, but also any decks that rely on high-power Counter Events like Gum-Gum Giant.

These late-game decks have lost one of their biggest weaknesses. Going forward, it will be more important than ever to pressure them early and often to keep their hands at a manageable size.

Yellow Decks

• Borsalino (EB04-058)
• Egghead/Navy
• <Blocker>
• [On Play] If you have 2 or less Life cards, add up to 1 card from the top of your deck to the top of your Life cards.

Going into today's Ban List update, we predicted that some combination of yellow cards would be banned or pair-banned to address the power of EB04-058 Borsalino. Combined with I Re-Quasar Helllp!!, Borsalino gives every yellow deck access to a trigger condition that heals you 1 Life and drops a 6000-power Blocker on the board.

Not only does that interaction remain untouched, but yellow decks now also have the best single-target removal Event in the game, which slots perfectly in the sorts of Life-manipulating decks that wanted to play Borsalino in the first place. Blue Yellow Boa Hancock, Blue Yellow Nami, and upcoming Leaders like Red Yellow Bonney and Yellow Luffy are incredibly pleased by the unban of Kingdom Come, though those first two might regret losing Pudding more than they enjoy keeping Borsalino.

Non-Pudding Hand Disruption... Maybe

Every blue deck will need to find some way to replace Charlotte Pudding going forward. While no cards can monkey with opposing hands as effectively as Pudding did, there are a few options that might warrant consideration.

Besides not being able to shrink hands as drastically as Pudding could, these cards have the additional downside that their effects get weaker instead of stronger the more cards your opponent has. An Ace player holding 16 cards in their grip is more likely to have a pair of bricks they can ditch without consequence than someone with just five or seven cards.

Despite these limitations, players will likely experiment with some of these cards until they're proven to be ineffective or Bandai prints a "fixed" version of Pudding's effect.