The Best Decks in the One Piece Card Game Right Now (August 2026)
OP-16 is now a mature format, and we've reached the point in the meta where the top Leaders have mostly solidified and lists are trending toward the same 50 cards. Luckily, the format is already getting a massive shake-up thanks to Starter Decks 31–36, which launched on July 31st.
The new cards from these starters bring powerful tools to Leaders across all colors, and we've already seen the meta shift in the weeks since Japan got them. Most notably, UY Nami has taken a huge hit from the resurgence of green decks, while both green and red are rising to ascendancy on the back of their new SRs.
Here are four of the strongest decks of the early OP-16.5 meta, with a quick breakdown of what makes each one so strong in the new format.
Red Green Luffy
(ChinoizeCup#88 4th Place list by Kevyzhou)
RG Luffy is a bigger menace now than it's ever been before, and it's all thanks to the new starter decks. With its ability to use active DON!! as 2000-power counters on the opponent's turn, the deck has always been extremely tanky; its one real flaw was an inability to sustain value over the long term. Now, though, it can make huge value trades with the new 7-cost Rush Luffy, which debuffs an opposing character, and a searcher stage that attaches a DON!! to the Leader for free. That's a major injection of both tempo and efficiency, and the deck can now do much more for a much smaller card investment.
Add in the huge counter event Charlestone, the full-board punish of Electrical Luna, and endgame pressure tools like the 4-cost Blocker Nami, 6-cost Brook, and unblockable Sanji, and this deck is a true meta threat.
- 1 OP13-001 Monkey.D.Luffy
- 4 OP15-035 Laboon
- 4 OP01-016 Nami
- 2 EB02-017 Nami
- 2 ST21-003 Sanji
- 4 OP14-031 Nami
- 2 OP13-037 Roronoa Zoro
- 4 OP14-022 Usopp
- 4 OP13-027 Sanji
- 2 OP15-032 Brook
- 3 OP13-118 Monkey.D.Luffy
- 3 ST31-004 Monkey D. Luffy
- 4 EB04-007 Roronoa Zoro
- 1 OP13-040 I Know You're Strong... So I'll Go All Out from the Very Start!!!
- 4 OP05-038 Charlestone
- 3 OP08-036 Electrical Luna
- 4 ST31-005 Thousand Sunny
Green Mihawk
(Tokyo Area Qualifiers top 16 list by GingaJkymm)
Green Mihawk is back. The core concept - using extra DON!! to out-tempo or out-value the opponent in bursts - is unchanged, but the deck now has new midgame toys. The 6-cost SR Mihawk is essentially a strict upgrade over the 6-cost Blocker Law, cycling cards when rested on top of an unconditional summon mechanic. The 5-cost SR Oden, meanwhile, draws a card and stops one of the opponent's base 6-cost-or-lower characters from being rested, which means it can hit an opposing 6-cost Enel.
The rest of the shell is largely the same, though it now runs the Wano package over the Supernovas package. As we've seen in previous sets, though, that's subject to change as the meta evolves.
- 1 OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk
- 4 OP07-022 Otama
- 4 OP14-023 Kikunojo
- 4 ST32-001 Kin'emon
- 4 OP12-034 Perona
- 4 ST32-005 Roronoa Zoro
- 4 ST32-002 Kouzuki Oden
- 3 OP14-033 Perona
- 3 OP10-030 Smoker
- 4 ST32-003 Dracule Mihawk
- 2 OP14-119 Dracule Mihawk
- 4 ST24-004 Law & Bepo
- 3 OP12-037 Demon Aura Nine Sword Style Asura Blades Drawn Dead Man's Game
- 3 OP13-040 I Know You're Strong... So I'll Go All Out from the Very Start!!!
- 4 OP01-055 You Can Be My Samurai!!
Blue Green Luffy
(Sofia top 8 list by FenoHS)
With its ability to swarm the board as early as turn 2 and its looming lategame combo threat in the form of Let's Go to the Navy Headquarters - a card that can restand up to six eligible attackers for just 7 DON!! - Blue Green Luffy continues to be a flexible, meta-defining deck even after the starter deck launch. Its constant cycling means it can play for value, while its ability to go wide means it can play for tempo, unlocking a free-flowing playstyle that can adjust to the opponent's game plan and find ways to win against a wide variety of challenges.
This version keeps most of the flavor of previous iterations but tweaks a couple of ratios: unblockable Boas are down a few copies on average, and Gum-Gum Jet Culverin earns its spot with its ability to bottomdeck a 4-cost-or-lower card for effectively 1 DON!!.
- 1 OP16-022 Monkey.D.Luffy
- 4 OP16-034 Monkey.D.Luffy
- 4 OP16-055 Mr.2.Bon.Kurei(Bentham)
- 4 OP16-054 Mr.1(Daz.Bonez)
- 4 ST30-014 Mr.3(Galdino)
- 1 OP16-037 Mr.3(Galdino)
- 2 ST12-010 Emporio.Ivankov
- 2 OP16-026 Emporio.Ivankov
- 4 OP16-056 Mr.3(Galdino)
- 4 OP16-045 Crocodile
- 4 OP16-048 Buggy
- 1 OP15-032 Brook
- 8 OP16-042 Prisoner of Impel Down
- 2 OP16-032 Boa Hancock
- 1 OP02-068 Gum-Gum Rain
- 2 OP16-038 Let's Go!! To The Navy Headquarters!!
- 2 OP11-061 Gum-Gum Jet Culverin
- 1 OP06-058 Gravity Blade Raging Tiger
Purple Enel
(Thailand CS 1st place list by Wasinha)
Did you enjoy your month or two of seeing slightly less Enel? Good, because now that Nami has been all but muscled out of the meta by the new starter deck cards, Purple Enel is back in full force. This month's list is very similar to the one we featured here in June.
As always, the deck leans on its high-tempo toolkit to control the board while developing 10000-power Enel cards that can't be removed. Slowly but surely, it whittles down opponents' life cards while staving off major board threats with cards like Gamma Knife, Senor Pink, El Thor, and Lightning Dragon.
Varie, meanwhile, continues to put in work as a 3- or 4-of, protecting bodies from cost-based removal and freezing effects from cards like Electrical Luna, which will only get more prevalent now that green has been upgraded as a color.
- 1 OP15-058 Enel
- 3 OP12-071 Charlotte Pudding
- 4 OP15-061 Ohm
- 3 OP15-066 Satori
- 4 OP15-067 Shura
- 2 OP09-072 Franky
- 1 ST10-010 Trafalgar Law
- 3 OP12-063 Vinsmoke Reiju
- 1 OP10-067 Senor Pink
- 1 OP07-064 Sanji
- 4 OP15-118 Enel
- 1 OP13-076 Divine Departure
- 4 OP15-075 El Thor
- 4 OP15-076 Lightning Beast Kiten
- 4 OP15-077 Lightning Dragon
- 4 OP15-078 Mamaragan
- 3 OP15-074 Varie
- 3 OP05-077 Gamma Knife
- 1 OP09-077 Gum-Gum Lightning
