ST-01 Straw Hat Crew

Overview

ST-01 Straw Hat Crew is a mono-red deck built around Monkey.D.Luffy and his crew. The Leader, ST01-001, has 5000 power and 5 Life, and once per turn during your Main Phase it can give up to 1 rested DON!! card to itself or one of your Characters. That small push of power is the whole engine: it lets a 5000-power Character attack into a 6000-power Leader without spending extra DON!! from your cost area.

The deck's 17 different cards are almost all {Straw Hat Crew} type Characters with plain stats. Nami copies the Leader's DON!! giving, Brook gives 2 rested DON!! when played, Sanji gains [Rush] with 2 DON!! attached, and the 5-cost Monkey.D.Luffy has [Rush] and stops your opponent from using [Blocker] when it attacks with 2 DON!!. Gum-Gum Jet Pistol and Diable Jambe are the deck's only answers to opposing Characters.

The Leader and every card except ST01-011 Brook rotated out of Standard on April 1, 2026. That makes ST-01 a deck for casual games, for teaching a new player how DON!! cards work, and for Bandai's Extra Regulation format, where every card is legal except the ban list. If you want a Standard red Luffy, ST21-001 Monkey.D.Luffy is the direct successor: the same character, the same color and a stronger version of the same DON!! giving effect.

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST01-001

ST01-001, 5000 power, 5 Life: once per turn, gives 1 rested DON!! to itself or a Character

The Leader, ST01-001 Monkey.D.Luffy, and every card in the box except ST01-011 Brook are block 1 cards that left Standard on April 1, 2026, so the deck is for casual and Extra Regulation play.

Ratings

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How it plays

The deck wins by attacking every turn with Characters that are slightly bigger than they look. Early on, play 1- and 2-cost Characters such as Nami, Usopp and Brook, and use the Leader's effect to push one attacker past your opponent's Leader. Brook is the best turn-two play because its [On Play] gives 2 rested DON!! cards at once.

In the middle turns, Roronoa Zoro and Jinbe add pressure. Zoro becomes a 6000-power attacker with 1 DON!!, and Jinbe gives another card +1000 power when it attacks with 1 DON!!. Use Gum-Gum Jet Pistol on the Character that blocks or threatens you most, since it K.O.s anything with 6000 power or less.

The closing turn is usually the 5-cost Monkey.D.Luffy. It attacks the turn it is played, and with 2 DON!! attached your opponent cannot use [Blocker] during that battle. Diable Jambe does the same job for any {Straw Hat Crew} attacker, so save one for the turn you need an attack to land.

Tips for your first games

• Use the Leader's effect before you attack, not after, since the DON!! card only helps the card that is about to battle.
• Play Brook on a turn when you have rested DON!! cards to give, which usually means after you have played something else.
• Keep Guard Point for the turn your opponent can take your last Life cards, because a +3000 counter is the strongest defense in the box.
• Save Diable Jambe or the 5-cost Luffy for the turn your opponent relies on a [Blocker] to survive.
• Tony Tony.Chopper is a 1-cost [Blocker] with no counter, so play it when you need a body in the way, not as a counter card in hand.

Key cards in the box

Brook

ST01-011

Gives 2 rested DON!! on play and has a 2000 counter; the only card still Standard-legal

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST01-012

5-cost [Rush] finisher that turns off [Blocker] when it attacks with 2 DON!!

Nami

ST01-007

Copies the Leader's effect, so you can give 2 rested DON!! cards a turn

Gum-Gum Jet Pistol

ST01-015

K.O.s a Character with 6000 power or less, and works from Life as a Trigger

Guard Point

ST01-014

1-cost counter for +3000 power, the deck's best defensive card

Upgrade guide

Every upgrade below is legal in Standard and shares a color with the Leader. Prices are each card's base printing on TCGplayer on October 10, 2026; open a card for today's price.

Budget red Straw Hat Crew Characters from ST-21

The cheapest way to improve the deck is to swap its vanilla Characters for ST-21 Straw Hat Crew cards that do something. ST21-009 Nami and ST21-012 Brook give 2 rested DON!! cards at a time, EB02-003 Tony Tony.Chopper gives 1 when it enters, and ST21-010 Nico Robin K.O.s a 4000-power Character when it attacks with 2 DON!!. Every card here is budget-priced and Standard-legal, so they keep working if you later move to the ST21-001 Leader. The cost is that the deck leans harder on DON!! giving, so a turn where you draw no givers is weaker.

Nami

ST21-009

Once per turn, gives 2 rested DON!! to a {Straw Hat Crew} Leader or Character

Brook

ST21-012

Gives 2 rested DON!! every time it attacks, not just on play

Tony Tony.Chopper

EB02-003

Gives 1 rested DON!! on play with a Straw Hat Leader; +2000 on defense with 2 DON!!

Nico Robin

ST21-010

With 2 DON!!, K.O.s a 4000-power Character when it attacks

Usopp

ST21-002

2000 counter, and +2000 power on your opponent's turn with 2 DON!!

Move to the ST21-001 Monkey.D.Luffy Leader

To play red Luffy in Standard, replace the Leader with ST21-001 Monkey.D.Luffy, which gives up to 2 rested DON!! cards to one Character once per turn while it has 1 DON!! attached. It is the same plan as ST-01 at twice the rate, and it is also the Leader of ST-31. Add the newer Straw Hat Crew Characters that turn those DON!! cards into extra attacks: Sanji to stop blockers, Roronoa Zoro to refill the board when it is K.O.'d, and the 7-cost ST31-004 Monkey.D.Luffy as a finisher. OP01-016 Nami searches for any of them. This is the most expensive of the three ideas because the Leader and Nami cost more than the rest.

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST21-001

The Standard red Luffy Leader: gives 2 rested DON!! to a Character once per turn

Nami

OP01-016

1-cost searcher that finds a {Straw Hat Crew} card from the top 5

Sanji

ST21-003

On play, a 6000-power Straw Hat attacker cannot be blocked this turn

Roronoa Zoro

ST21-015

Gains [Rush] with 2 DON!!, and plays a red Character from hand when K.O.'d

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST31-004

7-cost 9000 that shrinks opponents on play and gains [Rush] with 3 given DON!!

More removal and better counters

ST-01 has two ways to remove a Character, so a single large blocker can stall it. These red Events fix that. Gum-Gum Mole Pistol gives -5000 power and can K.O. a small Character as well, Munch-Munch Mutation works on either player's turn, and Gum-Gum King Kong Gatling is a +3000 attack boost whose Trigger K.O.s a 5000-power Character. Gum-Gum Dawn Whip and I'd Never Shoot You!!!! replace Guard Point's role on defense. Adding Events means fewer Characters, so cut the vanilla Characters first.

Gum-Gum Mole Pistol

ST21-017

-5000 power, then a K.O. on a 2000-power Character if you have a 6000 attacker

Munch-Munch Mutation

OP08-019

[Main] or [Counter]: -3000 to theirs and +3000 to yours

Gum-Gum King Kong Gatling

OP06-018

+3000 to an attacker; its Trigger K.O.s a 5000-power Character

Gum-Gum Dawn Whip

ST21-016

Turns off a small [Blocker]; its Trigger K.O.s a 4000-power Character

I'd Never Shoot You!!!!

OP08-017

2-cost counter for +4000 power plus -1000 on an opposing card

What to cut first

Bandai's list doesn't say how many copies of each card the deck has, so cut by card: take out every copy of these before anything else, and keep the deck at exactly 50.

Karoo

ST01-003

1-cost 3000 vanilla without the {Straw Hat Crew} type, so Diable Jambe skips it

Nefeltari Vivi

ST01-009

2-cost 4000 with no effect and only a 1000 counter

Nico Robin

ST01-008

3-cost 5000 with no effect; ST21-010 Nico Robin does the same job with K.O. power

Thousand Sunny

ST01-017

Costs 2 for a once-a-turn +1000; a Character does more for the same DON!!

Every card in ST-01

Bandai's card list for ST-01 has 17 different cards. 16 of them carry a block 1 icon or are banned, so they can't be played in Standard; they are still legal in Extra Regulation unless banned. Legality follows Bandai's block icons and its banned list effective October 12, 2026.

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