One Piece Card Game · Color Pairs
Red/Purple in the One Piece TCG
Red/Purple uses Purple's extra DON!! to reach Red's biggest attackers a turn early. Its Leaders care about how many DON!! you have, and several switch on only at a set count.
Red/Purple is a deck led by a Red/Purple Leader, so it can play any Red card and any Purple card. Purple's DON!! ramp feeding Red's big attackers, with DON!! counts that switch effects on.
As of October 2026, Bandai has printed six Red/Purple Leaders. Five are legal in Standard, and one is banned.
How Red/Purple Plays
Purple is the color that adds DON!! from the DON!! deck, and Red is the color that turns DON!! into power. Uta (OP06-001) trashes a FILM card when attacking to give −2000 and add a rested DON!!, and Sugar (OP10-003) adds an active DON!! when you activate an Event on your opponent's turn. The extra DON!! goes into Red's high-cost Characters or onto attackers.
Gol.D.Roger (OP13-003) is the count-based Leader: he has 7000 power and 5 Life, gets one DON!! from each DON!! Phase given to him, and loses 2000 power while you have 9 or fewer DON!! on the field. Monkey.D.Luffy (ST10-002) adds an active DON!! at 0 or at 8 or more. Both reward knowing exactly how many DON!! you will have next turn.
What each color does on its own, counted from the card text, is in Red and Purple on the colors page.
What It Does Well, and What It Doesn't
Strengths
- Big turns early: Purple's ramp gets Red's high-cost Characters, like the 10-cost Gol.D.Roger, into play sooner.
- Removal from both colors: Red's power cuts and K.O.s, plus Purple's DON!! −X removal.
- Five Leaders were legal in Standard as of October 2026, from the ST-10 Ultra Deck to OP13's Roger.
Weaknesses
- DON!! −X costs shrink your field, and Red's effects want DON!! on your attackers, so the two colors compete for the same DON!!.
- Threshold Leaders are awkward off their count: Roger is a 5000-power Leader until you reach 10 DON!!.
- ST-10's Trafalgar Law Leader (ST10-001) is banned, so that box is only partly playable in Standard.
Red/Purple Leaders
Your Leader is the only two-color card in a Red/Purple deck: every two-color card Bandai has printed is a Leader. These are the ones legal in Standard as of October 2026, with what each one asks of the deck.
Gol.D.Roger
OP13-003
7000 power and 5 Life; −2000 at 9 or fewer DON!!
Uta
OP06-001
Trash a FILM card when attacking for −2000 and a rested DON!!
Sugar
OP10-003
Adds an active DON!! when you activate an Event on your opponent's turn
Monkey.D.Luffy
ST10-002
Adds an active DON!! at 0 or 8 or more DON!!; 3 Life
Eustass"Captain"Kid
ST10-003
DON!! −1 when attacking for +2000; 5 Life
Banned as of Bandai's list effective October 12, 2026: Trafalgar Law (ST10-001).
How Leaders work, and the ones that change deckbuilding rules, is in One Piece Leader cards.
Cards Worth Knowing
The rest of the deck is single-color cards. These show what the pair's Leaders are built to use; they are examples from Standard-legal sets, not a list of the best cards.
Where to Start
The fastest start is a starter deck with a Red/Purple Leader: ST-10 The Three Captains (partly rotated, difficulty 4 out of 5). Each guide covers the deck as sold and the upgrades worth buying first.
To build one, pick the Leader first and fill the 50 cards in its colors; the steps are in how to build a One Piece deck. TurnZero HQ's One Piece Deck Lab flags any card that doesn't share a color with your Leader, and decks players have published are at One Piece decks, searchable by deck name or by a card in the deck.
Pairs That Share a Color
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Red/Purple Trafalgar Law Leader banned?
Yes. Trafalgar Law (ST10-001) is on Bandai's banned list effective October 12, 2026. The other two Leaders in the ST-10 Ultra Deck, Monkey.D.Luffy (ST10-002) and Eustass"Captain"Kid (ST10-003), are legal in Standard.
What are the Red/Purple Leaders in the One Piece TCG?
As of October 2026 there are 6: Gol.D.Roger (OP13-003), Uta (OP06-001), Sugar (OP10-003), Monkey.D.Luffy (ST10-002), Eustass"Captain"Kid (ST10-003) and Trafalgar Law (ST10-001). 5 are legal in Standard; ST10-001 is banned as of October 12, 2026.
Is there a Red/Purple starter deck?
ST-10, The Three Captains, comes with Monkey.D.Luffy, Eustass"Captain"Kid and Trafalgar Law as Red/Purple Leaders (partly rotated).
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