ST-10 The Three Captains

Overview

ST-10 The Three Captains is an Ultra Deck from November 2023 with three Red/Purple Leaders in one box. Monkey.D.Luffy leads the Straw Hat Crew cards, Eustass"Captain"Kid leads the Kid Pirates, and Trafalgar Law leads the Heart Pirates. Bandai has since banned the Law Leader, so only Luffy and Kid can be played as Leaders in Standard or Extra Regulation.

All three Leaders deal in DON!!. Luffy (6000 power, 3 Life) adds 1 active DON!! from your DON!! deck once per turn if you have 0 DON!! on the field or 8 or more. Kid (5000 power, 5 Life) returns 1 DON!! to your DON!! deck when he attacks to gain +2000 power, and he loses 1000 power on your turn while you have 4 or more Life. The box's 17 different cards include ones that add DON!! (Shachi & Penguin, Jean Bart, Bepo, Punk Vise) and ones that pay off when DON!! is returned (Killer, Heat, Wire).

The deck suits a player who already knows the basics and wants to learn DON!! management. It is one box that teaches two different ways to use the DON!! deck, and both Leaders have Standard-legal support across later sets.

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST10-002

ST10-002, 6000 power, 3 Life: adds an active DON!! when you have 0 or 8 or more on the field

Eustass"Captain"Kid

ST10-003

ST10-003, 5000 power, 5 Life: DON!! −1 when attacking for +2000; −1000 at 4 or more Life

Trafalgar Law

ST10-001

ST10-001, banned: DON!! −3 to bottom-deck a small Character and play a 4-cost

The Luffy (ST10-002) and Kid (ST10-003) Leaders are Standard-legal, the Trafalgar Law Leader (ST10-001) is banned, and Roronoa Zoro (OP01-025) is a rotated block 1 card.

Ratings

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How it plays

With Luffy, the plan is to reach 8 DON!! as quickly as possible. Shachi & Penguin adds 2 rested DON!! if you have 3 or less on the field, Jean Bart turns 1 rested DON!! into an extra active one, and Bepo adds a DON!! when your opponent has more than you. Once you are at 8, the Leader adds one more active DON!! each turn, so you reach the 10 that the 10-cost Monkey.D.Luffy needs a turn sooner.

The 10-cost Luffy is the finisher. It has Rush, and once per turn when your opponent activates a Blocker, it K.O.s one of their Characters with 8000 power or less. Gum-Gum Kong Gatling, which K.O.s a Character with 7000 power or less, and Jinbe's −2000 when attacking keep the board clear until then.

With Kid, you attack every turn and return a DON!! each time. That return triggers Killer (K.O. a rested Character costing 3 or less), Heat (+2000 until your next turn) and Wire (draw 1, trash 1), each once per turn on your turn. Kid wants to be at 3 Life or fewer so he is not giving up 1000 power, which makes him the more aggressive of the two Leaders.

Tips for your first games

• Count your DON!! before using Luffy's Leader effect. It checks the number on your field, so a turn where you spent DON!! −1 earlier can leave you at 7 and lose the bonus.
• Play Shachi & Penguin early with Luffy. It only adds DON!! if you have 3 or less on the field, so it is strongest on your second or third turn.
• With Kid, play Killer, Heat or Wire before you attack. Their effects watch for DON!! returning, so they need to be on the field when Kid's DON!! −1 happens.
• Hold the 10-cost Monkey.D.Luffy until your opponent has Blockers on the field. Its K.O. only happens when they activate one, so it is worth the most against a defensive board.
• Leave the Law Leader out of organized play, since it is banned. The Heart Pirates Characters, like Shachi & Penguin and Jean Bart, do not need Law and still work under Luffy.

Key cards in the box

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST10-006

10-cost Rush finisher that K.O.s an 8000 power Character when a Blocker is used

Shachi & Penguin

ST10-008

Adds 2 rested DON!! early, the fastest ramp in the box

Gum-Gum Kong Gatling

ST10-016

5-cost Main event that K.O.s a Character with 7000 power or less

Jinbe

ST10-005

2-cost with a 2000 Counter, and gives −2000 when attacking with a DON!!

Killer

ST10-007

For Kid: K.O.s a rested Character costing 3 or less when DON!! is returned

Wire

ST10-014

For Kid: Blocker that draws and trashes when DON!! is returned

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.

For Luffy: cards that pay off at 8 DON!!

Luffy's Leader is at its best once you have 8 DON!! on the field, so the first upgrade is purple Straw Hat Crew cards that do more at that point. Uso-Hachi rests a Character, O-Nami draws, and San-Gorou draws each time it attacks. Franky and the Heart Pirates Trafalgar Law add DON!! on the way there when you are behind on DON!!. Most of these are budget cards, and they replace the Kid Pirates cards, which do little in a Luffy deck. The cost is a slower early game: several of these do nothing until turn five or six.

Uso-Hachi

ST18-001

At 8 or more DON!!, rests an opponent's Character costing 5 or less

O-Nami

ST18-002

Blocker that trashes 1 and draws 2 at 8 or more DON!!

San-Gorou

ST18-003

Draws a card when it attacks at 8 or more DON!!

Franky

EB02-037

Adds a rested DON!! on play and when attacking if you are not ahead on DON!!

Trafalgar Law

OP12-073

Adds an active DON!! if you are not ahead, and pumps Heart Pirates

For Kid: build the DON!! return engine

Kid returns a DON!! every time he attacks, and the box only has three cards that care. These add more. The 5-cost Kid and the 3-cost Hitokiri Kamazo give the DON!! back so you do not fall behind, Killer stands your Kid Leader for a second attack, and Bepo pumps a Character or Leader whenever DON!! is returned. All of them are budget cards. The cost is that this build only works under Kid; none of these do much for Luffy.

Eustass"Captain"Kid

OP05-074

Blocker that sets a DON!! active each time one is returned on your turn

Hitokiri Kamazo

EB04-035

Blocker that adds a rested DON!! when one is returned, with a Kid Pirates Leader

Killer

OP09-064

DON!! −1 on play to set your Kid Pirates Leader active again

Bepo

OP09-074

2000 Counter, and +1000 to a Leader or Character when DON!! is returned

Eustass"Captain"Kid

EB04-039

Adds an active DON!!, and can trash itself to play a Kid Pirates Character costing 5 or less

For either Leader: red and purple removal

The box has only two real removal cards, Gum-Gum Kong Gatling and Gum-Gum Giant Sumo Slap. These Straw Hat Crew events have no Leader requirement, so they fit Luffy or Kid. Gum-Gum Lightning costs DON!! −2, which also triggers Kid's return effects. There's No Way You Could Defeat Me!! is a Counter event, so it also helps on defense, and Cloven Rose Blizzard is a budget pick that pumps three of your cards as well.

There's No Way You Could Defeat Me!!

EB01-010

Counter event that K.O.s a Character with 6000 base power or less

Blue Dragon Seal Water Stream

OP06-019

3-cost K.O. on a Character with 5000 power or less, with a K.O. Trigger

Cloven Rose Blizzard

EB02-007

+1000 to three of your cards and a K.O. on a 3000 power Character

Gum-Gum Lightning

OP09-077

DON!! −2 to K.O. a Character with 6000 power or less

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.

Roronoa Zoro

OP01-025

Rotated block 1 card, not legal in Standard

Trafalgar Law

ST10-010

Its On Play discard needs the opponent at 7 or more cards in hand, which is rare

Sanji

ST10-004

6 cost for 6000 power; Rush only if the opponent has a 5000 power Character

Heat

ST10-011

Only grows when DON!! is returned, which a Luffy build rarely does

Every card in ST-10

Bandai's card list for ST-10 has 19 different cards. 2 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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