One Piece Card Game

One Piece TCG Life Tracker

Life in the One Piece Card Game is a stack of face-down cards, not a number, and running out of it doesn't lose you the game on its own. Here's how life works under the rules, the ways players keep track of it, and how to keep score and record the result in TurnZero HQ.

How life works

Your life is set by your Leader. Every Leader prints a Life number, most often 5 or 4, and after both players have kept their opening hands, each puts that many cards from the top of their deck face down in their Life area. Those cards are your life: the count of face-down cards is your life total for the rest of the game.

What happensWhat it does to your Life cards
Your Leader takes 1 damageThe top card of your Life area goes to your hand. You have one fewer Life card.
That card has a [Trigger]You can reveal it and use its Trigger instead of adding it to your hand.
An attacker with [Double Attack] hits your LeaderIt deals 2 damage, so it can take two Life cards.
An attacker with [Banish] hits your LeaderThe Life card goes to the trash instead of your hand, and its Trigger can't be used.
A card effect adds or removes Life cardsYour life goes up or down outside of combat. Some Leaders and cards do this on purpose.

Losing life is not all bad. Each Life card you take is a card in hand, which is also a possible counter for the next attack,, and a Trigger can swing a turn.

How a game ends

Reaching 0 Life cards does not end the game. Under the official rules, you lose when your Leader takes damage while you have no Life cards left, which is why the finishing blow is usually one more attack on a Leader with an empty Life area. You also lose when you have no cards left in your deck, and you can concede at any time.

EndingWhat happened
Leader defeatedA Leader with no Life cards took damage.
Deck outA player ran out of cards in their deck.
ConcessionA player conceded.

Those three are the endings TurnZero HQ's result sheet offers for a One Piece game, under the same names.

Tracking it at the table

The Life area is its own counter. Your Life cards sit face down in front of you, so either player can count them at a glance, and many players never track life any other way. Other methods add something the cards don't.

MethodGood forLimits
Counting the Life cardsAlways correct, nothing extra to carryKeeps no record once the game is over
A die or counterA quick read across the table or for a streamHas to be moved every time a Life card leaves or arrives
Pen and paperWriting down results for a league or a playgroupSlow to update mid-game
A phone appKeeping a result and a history of your gamesAnother thing to update while you play

The Life cards stay the source of truth whatever you use. A number anywhere else is only right if someone moves it every time the Life area changes.

How to track a One Piece game in TurnZero HQ

TurnZero HQ keeps score for a game you play at a real table, and records who won and how. A game belongs to a gathering, which is the app's word for a night of games, and the gathering is for one card game.

  1. Open the Play sheet and choose One Piece in its game picker.
  2. Under Start a One Piece game, pick how many are at the table: 2, or More for a bigger group.
  3. On setup, pick each player's One Piece deck. The choices are the decks each player has built in TurnZero HQ's One Piece deck builder.
  4. Set the starting life. The setup reads Everyone starts on 5 Life; use Start lower or Start higher to match your Leader, anywhere from 1 to 10. Then tap Start game.
  5. During the game, each player has one Life number. Lower it by one when a Life card leaves the Life area, raise it when an effect adds one, or tap the number to type it. Undo takes back the last change.
  6. When the game ends at the table, tap End Game, then Yes, End Game. Crown the winner, choose how they won (Leader defeated, Deck out or Concession, which is optional), and tap Confirm Results.

A Life number reaching 0 doesn't end anything in the app, because it doesn't end anything in the rules. The game stays open until someone records the result.

One device keeps score: the host or a player seated at the table. Anyone else in the gathering can watch the numbers update live, and the host or a seated player can take over with Keep score here. The finished game is saved in the gathering's history.

What the tracker does and doesn't do

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One Life number per player, with a starting value you set to match your Leader

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Tap a number to type it, and undo the last change

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One scorekeeper, with everyone else in the gathering able to watch live

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The winner and how the game ended, saved in the gathering's history

It is a scorekeeper, not a place to play: there is no online play, and it doesn't track the cards themselves, such as DON!!, which Life cards you took or which Triggers you used. One Piece games also have no ratings, win odds, per-game player stats, AI recaps, awards, damage chart, Personal Mode or best-of-three matches in TurnZero HQ. Those are Magic features today.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much life do you start with in the One Piece Card Game?

As much as your Leader's printed life. Most Leaders have 5 or 4. After mulligans, each player puts that many cards from the top of their deck face down in their Life area, and those cards are the life total.

Do you lose at 0 life in the One Piece TCG?

No. Reaching 0 Life cards doesn't end the game. You lose when your Leader takes damage while you have no Life cards left, or when your deck runs out. A player can also concede at any time.

What happens to a Life card when your Leader is hit?

For each point of damage, the top card of your Life area goes to your hand. If that card has a [Trigger], you can reveal it and use the Trigger instead of adding it to your hand. Some effects change this, such as Banish, which sends the Life card to the trash instead.

Does TurnZero HQ end a One Piece game when a player hits 0 life?

No, because the rules don't. The tracker keeps each player's life, and when the game is over at the table, whoever is keeping score taps End Game, picks the winner, and can record how it ended: Leader defeated, Deck out or Concession.

Can each player start on a different life total in TurnZero HQ?

The setup screen sets one starting life for the table, from 1 to 10, starting at 5. If the Leaders print different numbers, set it to one of them and tap the other player's number during the game to type their real total.

Does TurnZero HQ keep One Piece ratings or win rates?

No. It records the game and its result in the gathering's history. Ratings, win odds, per-game player stats and AI recaps are for Magic games today.

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