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Blue in the One Piece TCG
A Blue deck trades cards for cards. Blue draws more than any other color and removes Characters by returning them to hand or to the bottom of the deck, never by K.O., and most Blue Leaders either draw or turn your hand into plays.
Blue is a deck led by a one-color Blue Leader, so every card in it is Blue. Card draw and bounce, with the most one-color Leaders of any color and one that wins by decking out.
As of November 2026, Bandai has printed 14 one-color Blue Leaders. Ten are legal in Standard, three rotated out with block 1, and one is banned. Every one has 5 Life, one more than most two-color Leaders.
How Blue Plays
Blue's draw usually costs a card back: Blue has the highest share of cards that trash from your hand, so a typical Blue effect draws two and gives one up. Its removal is tempo rather than card advantage. A bounced Character comes back next turn, but your opponent paid for it twice.
The draw Leaders reward a type. Kuzan (OP12-040) draws a card for each card your Navy cards make you trash, Rocks.D.Xebec (OP17-039) trashes a card when attacking and draws 2 if the top card of your deck is a Rocks Pirates card, and Boa Hancock (OP07-038) draws when your effect removes a Character from the field. Monkey.D.Luffy (P-047) simply draws when attacking with 3 or fewer cards in hand.
Others play from hand. Buggy (OP09-042) rests 5 DON!! to play a Cross Guild Character from hand, Rebecca (OP15-039) can't attack but returns a Dressrosa Character to play a 3-cost one, and Buggy (OP16-041) plays Prisoner of Impel Down when an Impel Down Character leaves the field. Nami (P-117) is the deck-out Leader: an all-East Blue deck that wins when its own deck runs out.
What Blue does across all of its cards, counted from the card text, is in the Blue section of the colors lesson.
What It Does Well, and What It Doesn't
Strengths
- The most card draw of any color, so a Blue deck rarely runs out of Counters.
- Bounce ignores power, so a Character too big for a power-based K.O. can still be answered.
- Depth: ten one-color Blue Leaders were legal in Standard as of November 2026, the most of any color.
Weaknesses
- No K.O. removal, so a bounced Character can be replayed next turn.
- Many effects ask you to trash from hand, which spends the Counters you drew.
- Several Leaders restrict the deck to one type (Cross Guild, Dressrosa, East Blue, Rocks Pirates).
Blue Leaders
A one-color Leader gives up the second color's cards, and most get an extra Life for it: a typical one-color Leader has 5 Life where a typical two-color Leader has 4. Cards that check for a multicolored Leader do nothing extra here. These are the Blue Leaders legal in Standard as of November 2026, with what each one asks of the deck.
Rocks.D.Xebec
OP17-039
Trash 1 when attacking; draws 2 off a Rocks Pirates reveal
Buggy
OP16-041
Plays Prisoner of Impel Down when an Impel Down Character leaves
Rebecca
OP15-039
Cannot attack; swaps a Dressrosa Character for a 3-cost one
Jinbe
OP14-040
Trash 1 to give 2 rested DON!! to a Fish-Man or Merfolk
Kuzan
OP12-040
Draws for each card trashed by your Navy cards
Buggy
OP09-042
Rests 5 DON!! to play a Cross Guild Character from hand
Boa Hancock
OP07-038
Draws when your effect removes a Character
Monkey.D.Luffy (Premium Card Collection -Live Action Edition-)
P-047
Draws when attacking with 3 or fewer cards in hand
Nami
P-117
East Blue only; wins when your deck runs out
Ace & Newgate
ST22-001
Reveals a Whitebeard Pirates card to draw 1
Rotated out of Standard with block 1 on April 1, 2026, and still playable in casual games: Emporio.Ivankov (OP02-049), Donquixote Doflamingo (OP01-060), Crocodile (ST03-001).
Banned as of Bandai's list effective October 12, 2026: Nami (OP03-040).
How Leaders work, and the ones that change deckbuilding rules, is in One Piece Leader cards. Every printing of every Leader, by character, is in One Piece Leaders.
Cards Worth Knowing
These show what Blue cards do; they are examples from Standard-legal sets, not a list of the best cards.
Where to Start
The fastest start is a one-color Blue starter deck: ST-22 Ace & Newgate (Standard legal, difficulty 3 out of 5); ST-25 BLUE Buggy (Standard legal, difficulty 3 out of 5); ST-33 BLUE Kuzan (Standard legal, difficulty 3 out of 5). Each guide covers the deck as sold and the upgrades worth buying first.
Older Blue boxes whose Leader has rotated out of Standard: ST-03 The Seven Warlords of the Sea, ST-17 Blue Donquixote Doflamingo. They still work for casual games and as a source of cards.
To build one, pick the Leader first and fill the 50 cards in Blue; 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.
Blue in Two-Color Decks
A two-color Leader adds a second color's cards to Blue's. All five Blue pairs have at least one Leader as of October 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you win the One Piece TCG by running out of cards?
Only with a Leader that says so. Normally a player whose deck reaches 0 loses. Nami (P-117) reverses that for her own deck: when it is reduced to 0, you win instead, and she limits your deck to East Blue cards. The original Nami Leader (OP03-040) had the same win condition and is banned as of October 12, 2026.
What are the Blue Leaders in the One Piece TCG?
As of November 2026, 10 one-color Blue Leaders are legal in Standard: Rocks.D.Xebec (OP17-039), Buggy (OP16-041), Rebecca (OP15-039), Jinbe (OP14-040), Kuzan (OP12-040), Buggy (OP09-042), Boa Hancock (OP07-038), Monkey.D.Luffy (P-047), Nami (P-117) and Ace & Newgate (ST22-001). Emporio.Ivankov (OP02-049), Donquixote Doflamingo (OP01-060) and Crocodile (ST03-001) rotated out with block 1 on April 1, 2026. Nami (OP03-040) is banned as of October 12, 2026.
Is there a Blue starter deck in the One Piece TCG?
Yes. The one-color Blue starter decks still playable in Standard are ST-22 Ace & Newgate (difficulty 3 out of 5, Standard legal), ST-25 BLUE Buggy (difficulty 3 out of 5, Standard legal) and ST-33 BLUE Kuzan (difficulty 3 out of 5, Standard legal). Our starter deck guide rates each one for strength as well as difficulty, with the upgrades worth buying first.
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