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Green in the One Piece TCG
A Green deck decides who gets to act. Green has the most cards that rest your opponent's cards and the most that set your own DON!! and Characters active again, and most Green Leaders do one or the other.
Green is a deck led by a one-color Green Leader, so every card in it is Green. Resting your opponent's cards and readying your own, with Leaders that control who can act each turn.
As of November 2026, Bandai has printed 12 one-color Green Leaders. Seven are legal in Standard, four rotated out with block 1, and one is banned. Every one has 5 Life, one more than most two-color Leaders.
How Green Plays
Resting does two jobs. A rested Character can't attack or block, and it can be attacked, so a Green turn often rests a Blocker, attacks past it, and then attacks the rested Character too. Green's K.O. effects mostly target rested Characters, so resting first is also how Green removes.
The Leaders split into those that rest and those that ready. Carrot (OP08-021) rests a Character with a cost of 5 or less while you have a Minks Character, Hody Jones (OP06-020) rests himself to rest a cheap Character or a DON!!, and Jewelry Bonney (OP07-019) rests an opposing Leader or Character on your opponent's attack. Shanks (OP17-020) keeps a rested Character from becoming active in your opponent's next Refresh Phase.
On the other side, Jinbe (OP11-021) sets a Fish-Man or Merfolk Character and a DON!! active at the end of your turn, and Roronoa Zoro (OP12-020) sets himself active after battling a Character so he can attack again. Uta (ST11-001) digs for FILM cards instead, which makes her deck a type deck first.
What Green does across all of its cards, counted from the card text, is in the Green section of the colors lesson.
What It Does Well, and What It Doesn't
Strengths
- Clears Blockers before attacking, so Green's attacks connect more often than their power suggests.
- Readying DON!! at the end of your turn leaves DON!! active for your opponent's turn, where it can pay for Counter Events.
- Removal that works on high-power Characters, as long as they are rested.
Weaknesses
- Little card draw, the same gap Red has.
- Most rest effects have a cost cap (5 or less is common), so a big Character can stay out of reach.
- An opponent who keeps Characters active and doesn't attack gives Green's K.O. effects nothing to target.
Green 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 Green Leaders legal in Standard as of November 2026, with what each one asks of the deck.
Shanks
OP17-020
Keeps a rested Character from readying next turn
Roronoa Zoro
OP12-020
[DON!! x3] Sets himself active after battling a Character
Jinbe
OP11-021
Sets a Fish-Man or Merfolk Character and a DON!! active at end of turn
Carrot
OP08-021
Rests a Character with a cost of 5 or less with a Minks Character
Jewelry Bonney
OP07-019
Rests a DON!! on defense to rest a Leader or Character
Hody Jones
OP06-020
Rests himself to rest a cheap Character or a DON!!
Uta
ST11-001
Finds a FILM card when attacking
Rotated out of Standard with block 1 on April 1, 2026, and still playable in casual games: Kuro (OP03-021), Kin'emon (OP02-025), Kouzuki Oden (OP01-031), Eustass"Captain"Kid (ST02-001).
Banned as of Bandai's list effective October 12, 2026: Dracule Mihawk (OP14-020).
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 Green 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 Green starter deck: ST-11 Uta (partly rotated, difficulty 2 out of 5); ST-16 Green Uta (partly rotated, difficulty 3 out of 5); ST-24 GREEN Jewelry Bonney (Standard legal, difficulty 3 out of 5); ST-32 GREEN Roronoa Zoro (Standard legal, difficulty 3 out of 5). Each guide covers the deck as sold and the upgrades worth buying first.
Older Green boxes whose Leader has rotated out of Standard: ST-02 Worst Generation. 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 Green; 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.
Green in Two-Color Decks
A two-color Leader adds a second color's cards to Green's. All five Green pairs have at least one Leader as of October 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is Dracule Mihawk banned in the One Piece TCG?
Bandai put the Green Dracule Mihawk Leader (OP14-020) on its banned list effective October 12, 2026, so it can't lead a deck in official play. The other seven Green Leaders printed since block 1 are legal in Standard.
What are the Green Leaders in the One Piece TCG?
As of November 2026, 7 one-color Green Leaders are legal in Standard: Shanks (OP17-020), Roronoa Zoro (OP12-020), Jinbe (OP11-021), Carrot (OP08-021), Jewelry Bonney (OP07-019), Hody Jones (OP06-020) and Uta (ST11-001). Kuro (OP03-021), Kin'emon (OP02-025), Kouzuki Oden (OP01-031) and Eustass"Captain"Kid (ST02-001) rotated out with block 1 on April 1, 2026. Dracule Mihawk (OP14-020) is banned as of October 12, 2026.
Is there a Green starter deck in the One Piece TCG?
Yes. The one-color Green starter decks still playable in Standard are ST-11 Uta (difficulty 2 out of 5, partly rotated), ST-16 Green Uta (difficulty 3 out of 5, partly rotated), ST-24 GREEN Jewelry Bonney (difficulty 3 out of 5, Standard legal) and ST-32 GREEN Roronoa Zoro (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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