ST-14 3D2Y

Overview

ST-14 is the 3D2Y starter, a mono-black Straw Hat Crew deck with a Monkey.D.Luffy Leader. The deck's 17 different cards are almost all Straw Hat Crew Characters and Events, plus three helpers (Jinbe, Haredas and Heracles) whose job is to raise a Straw Hat's cost.

The Leader's effect needs one DON!! attached. With it, all of your Characters gain +1 cost, and if you have a Character with a cost of 8 or more, the Leader gains +1000 power. Cost matters because most of the box's removal and card draw only works with a cost 8 Character on your field: Usopp, Nico Robin, Nami, Haredas, Gum-Gum Giant Rifle and the Phoenix Cannon Event all check for it.

This is a good first black deck. The cards are short and readable, and the one question the deck asks is easy to track once you know where each +cost comes from.

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST14-001

ST14-001, 5000 power, 5 Life: +1 cost to your Characters, +1000 with a cost 8

Every card in ST-14 is legal in Standard.

Ratings

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How it plays

The deck wins by getting a cost 8 Character onto the field in the middle turns and then using every effect that checks for it. The usual route is a 6-cost Nico Robin or Roronoa Zoro: with a DON!! on the Leader and Thousand Sunny in play, each one counts as cost 8. Jinbe, Heracles and Haredas can add +2 more to a black Straw Hat Crew Character until the end of your opponent's next turn.

Once you have cost 8, Usopp K.O.s a cost 4 or less Character when it attacks with a DON!!, Nico Robin gives an opponent's Character -5 cost, and the Phoenix Cannon Event (Gum-Gum Diable Three-Swords Style Mouten Jet Six Hundred Pound Phoenix Cannon) K.O.s a cost 2 or less Character. Robin's -5 cost sets up those K.O. effects on bigger targets. Sanji only asks for cost 6 or more, so he works one step earlier.

The top end is the 8-cost Monkey.D.Luffy, a 10000-power Character that gains Rush if you have a Character with a cost of 10 or more. With a DON!! on the Leader and Thousand Sunny out, Luffy reaches cost 10 by himself, so he can attack the turn he lands.

Tips for your first games

• Attach a DON!! to the Leader before you play anything that checks cost, because the Leader's +1 only applies while that DON!! is attached.
• Play Thousand Sunny early; it draws a card when it enters and gives every black Straw Hat Crew Character +1 cost for the rest of the game.
• The +2 cost from Heracles and Jinbe lasts until the end of your opponent's next turn, so it also keeps your Character out of range of removal that only hits low costs.
• Play Nico Robin before Usopp attacks so her -5 cost can bring a bigger Character into Usopp's cost 4 or less range.
• The 8-cost Luffy counts as cost 10 only while the Leader has a DON!! attached and Thousand Sunny is in play (or a +2 from Jinbe or Heracles is on him), so check both before you count on Rush.

Key cards in the box

Thousand Sunny

ST14-017

Draws a card and gives every black Straw Hat Crew Character +1 cost

Nico Robin

ST14-007

The main way to reach cost 8, and gives a target -5 cost on play and attack

Sanji

ST14-003

K.O.s a cost 5 or less Character with only a cost 6 Character in play

Usopp

ST14-002

Repeatable K.O. on cost 4 or less each time it attacks with a DON!!

Jinbe

ST14-004

A once-per-turn +2 cost that also keeps your Character safe from small removal

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST14-012

10000 power for 8, with Rush once you have a cost 10 Character

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: reach cost 8 sooner

The deck's weak turns are the ones where nothing on your field is cost 8, so its removal and draw sit idle. These cheap cards add more ways to raise costs and more Characters that land close to 8. They replace the vanilla Brook and Chopper and keep the deck's price low.

Duval

OP08-088

Gives a Character +1 cost on play and has a 2000 counter

Saint Homing

OP10-093

Trashes itself to give a black Character +3 cost through your opponent's turn

Monkey.D.Luffy (Reprint)

P-075

A 7-cost that reaches 8 with the Leader; draws 1 and trashes 1 when it attacks at cost 8

Ursa Shock

OP12-096

K.O.s cost 4 or less, or cost 6 or less once you have a cost 8 Character

Brook

EB01-046

Gives -1 cost, then K.O.s a cost 0 Character; pairs well with Robin's -5

More payoffs for the cost 8 check

Once the deck reaches cost 8 reliably, it wants more cards that do something big when it does. These are stronger Straw Hat Crew Characters and a black Blocker that each use the cost theme. They cost more than the budget list, and Jinbe in particular is the most expensive card in this guide, so start with Sanji and Nami.

Jinbe

OP08-085

With a DON!!, K.O.s a cost 4 or less Character on attack at cost 8

Sanji

OP16-086

A cost 8 Straw Hat with 9000 power and a 2000 counter

Nami

OP15-086

Plays a Straw Hat with a cost of 7 or less from your trash with Rush

Sabo

OP13-120

Blocker that gives +2 cost each turn and puts a rested DON!! on your Leader

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.

Brook

ST14-010

A vanilla 7000 for 5 that does not reach cost 8 on its own

Tony Tony.Chopper

ST14-005

A vanilla 6000 for 4 with no effect that uses the cost theme

Gum-Gum Giant Rifle

ST14-014

A counter that only works with a cost 8 Character already out

Every card in ST-14

Bandai's card list for ST-14 has 17 different cards. Every one of them is legal in Standard. Legality follows Bandai's block icons and its banned list effective October 12, 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions