ST-03 The Seven Warlords of the Sea

Overview

ST-03 The Seven Warlords of the Sea is a mono-blue deck led by Crocodile. The Leader has 5000 power and 5 Life, and once per turn you can return 4 DON!! cards from your field to your DON!! deck to return a Character with a cost of 5 or less to its owner's hand. That is a large cost, but it removes a Character without a card.

The deck's 17 different cards lean on the same idea. Marshall.D.Teach returns a cost 3 or less Character when played, the 7-cost Donquixote Doflamingo and the Sables Event each return a Character with a cost of 7 or less, and Thrust Pad Cannon does it as a counter. Dracule Mihawk draws 2 and trashes 2 when it attacks with 1 DON!!, and Gecko Moria returns a Seven Warlords or Thriller Bark Pirates Character from your trash to your hand.

The whole box, Leader included, rotated out of Standard on April 1, 2026, so ST-03 is for casual games and Bandai's Extra Regulation. The newer Crocodile Leader, OP14-079, is black and built around Baroque Works, so it is a different deck. For blue Seven Warlords in Standard, OP07-038 Boa Hancock is the closest match, since it rewards the same removal effects.

Crocodile

ST03-001

ST03-001, 5000 power, 5 Life: DON!! −4 to return a Character with cost 5 or less to hand

Every card in ST-03, including the ST03-001 Crocodile Leader, is a block 1 card that left Standard on April 1, 2026.

Ratings

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How it plays

The deck wins by making your opponent replay their best Characters while you keep attacking. Early, play Buggy, Jinbe and Bartholomew Kuma for bodies and to set up your draws. Kuma looks at the top 3 cards and puts them back on top or bottom in any order.

From turn four, use bounce on the Character that cost your opponent the most. Teach handles small Characters, Sables handles a cost 7 or less Character for 4 DON!!, and Doflamingo does the same on a 7000-power body. The Leader's DON!! −4 effect is best on a turn when you have DON!! left over after playing what you need.

Late in the game, keep Crocodile (the 5-cost Character) and Boa Hancock back as [Blocker]s and use Love-Love Mellow to stay alive while your Characters chip away at Life. Crocodile with 1 DON!! puts a cost 2 or less Character on the bottom of its owner's deck when it blocks.

Tips for your first games

• Count DON!! before using the Leader: returning 4 of them leaves fewer for your next turn's plays.
• Return Characters that your opponent spent more DON!! on than you spent to return them.
• Thrust Pad Cannon is a counter that removes a cost 3 or less attacker, which is useful against small [Rush] Characters.
• Use Kuma early to set up your next few draws, since it can put cards back on top in any order.
• Gecko Moria can return Mihawk or Teach from the trash, so hold it until you have a good target there.

Key cards in the box

Donquixote Doflamingo

ST03-009

7-cost 7000 that returns a Character with cost 7 or less on play

Sables

ST03-015

Returns a cost 7 or less Character, and does it again as a Trigger

Dracule Mihawk

ST03-005

2000 counter; draws 2 and trashes 2 when it attacks with 1 DON!!

Marshall.D.Teach

ST03-014

Returns a cost 3 or less Character to hand on play

Love-Love Mellow

ST03-017

+4000 counter that draws a card when your hand is small

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 Seven Warlords bounce

The cheapest fix is to swap the vanilla Characters for Standard-legal Seven Warlords cards that remove something. Trafalgar Law (ST17-002) returns a cost 4 or less Character under a Seven Warlords Leader, OP08-042 Edward Weevil returns a cost 3 or less Character when it attacks with 1 DON!!, and PRB02-007 Jinbe searches for another Warlords card and puts a cost 1 or less Character on the bottom of its owner's deck when it attacks. EB02-023 Crocodile filters your top 3 cards whenever you bounce an opposing Character. Every card here is budget-priced. The cost is that Law and Teach (OP12-054) need a Seven Warlords Leader, which ST03-001 Crocodile and OP07-038 Boa Hancock both are.

Trafalgar Law

ST17-002

Return your Character to return a cost 4 or less Character under a Warlords Leader

Edward Weevil

OP08-042

Returns a cost 3 or less Character when it attacks with 1 DON!!

Jinbe

PRB02-007

Searches the top 5 for a Warlords card; bottom-decks a cost 1 or less Character on attack

Marshall.D.Teach

OP12-054

1-cost body that returns a cost 1 or less Character under a Warlords Leader

Crocodile

EB02-023

Once per your turn, filters your top 3 when you bounce an opposing Character

Warlords Characters that draw cards

Bounce trades one of your cards for tempo, so a bounce deck runs out of cards. These Seven Warlords Characters replace themselves. EB04-027 Boa Hancock draws 2 and trashes 1, OP07-044 Dracule Mihawk is a 10000-power 8-cost that draws on play, and OP14-049 Jinbe draws 2 and returns a cost 7 or less Character if you rest 2 DON!!. OP07-045 Jinbe plays another Warlords Character from hand, and OP07-040 Crocodile returns a cost 2 or less Character for 1 rested DON!! and has a 2000 counter. The tradeoff is a higher curve, so trim the 1- and 2-cost vanilla cards to make room.

Boa Hancock

EB04-027

5-cost 7000 that draws 2 and trashes 1 on play

Dracule Mihawk

OP07-044

8-cost 10000 that draws a card on play

Jinbe

OP14-049

Rest 2 DON!!: draw 2 and return a cost 7 or less Character on play

Jinbe

OP07-045

Plays a cost 4 or less Warlords Character from hand on play

Crocodile

OP07-040

Rest 1 DON!!: return a cost 2 or less Character; 2000 counter

Move to the OP07-038 Boa Hancock Leader

For Standard, OP07-038 Boa Hancock is the blue Seven Warlords Leader that fits this deck. Once per your turn, when your effect removes a Character from the field, you draw a card if you have 5 or fewer in hand, which pays you back for each bounce or bottom-deck. Add the Kuja Pirates Characters that remove things: OP07-051 Boa Hancock stops an attacker for a turn and bottom-decks a 1-cost Character, and Boa Sandersonia and Boa Marigold remove a Character once you have 2 Kuja Pirates out. EB03-026 Boa Hancock can bottom-deck one of your own Characters to give DON!! cards, which also triggers the Leader's draw.

Boa Hancock

OP07-038

Blue Warlords Leader: draws a card when your effect removes a Character

Boa Hancock

OP07-051

Stops a Character attacking for a turn, then bottom-decks a 1-cost Character

Boa Sandersonia

OP07-050

Returns a cost 3 or less Character with 2 Kuja Pirates on your field

Boa Marigold

OP07-052

Bottom-decks a cost 2 or less Character with 2 Kuja Pirates on your field

Boa Hancock

EB03-026

Bottom-deck your own Character to give DON!! to your Leader and a Character

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.

Sentomaru

ST03-007

Its effect only finds Pacifista, a 4-cost vanilla, and it is not a Warlords card

Pacifista

ST03-012

A 4-cost vanilla that only matters because of Sentomaru

Edward Weevil

ST03-002

3-cost 5000 with no effect

Trafalgar Law

ST03-008

1-cost [Blocker] with 1000 power and no counter

Every card in ST-03

Bandai's card list for ST-03 has 17 different cards. 17 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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