ST-16 Green Uta

Overview

ST-16 is a mono-green deck with the ST11-001 Uta Leader, reprinted from the earlier ST-11 Uta deck. Almost everything in the box has the FILM type, and the Leader rewards that: with one DON!! attached, the first time she attacks each turn you reveal your top card and add it to your hand if it is a FILM card.

The deck's 15 different cards lean on Events. Backlight rests or K.O.s a Character, Fleeting Lullaby keeps two rested Characters from untapping, Tot Musica rests two of your opponent's DON!!, and New Genesis finds another FILM card. The Characters are few: a Blocker Uta, Gordon, Charlotte Katakuri, two Monkey.D.Luffy cards and the 9-cost Shanks.

It suits a player who likes control more than racing. The deck asks you to track which of your opponent's Characters are rested, which is how many green decks in the One Piece Card Game play.

Uta

ST11-001

ST11-001, 5000 power, 5 Life: reveals the top card on attack and keeps it if it is FILM

The Uta Leader and every card but one are legal in Standard; Bartolomeo (P-029) is a block 1 card that left Standard on April 1, 2026.

Ratings

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How it plays

Early turns are about setting up. Attack with Uta when you can attach a DON!!, because her reveal is your main source of extra cards. New Genesis digs 3 cards deep for a FILM card and sets a DON!! active, which makes it close to free.

In the middle turns you use Backlight to rest a cost 5 or less Character and Fleeting Lullaby to keep up to two rested cost 4 or less Characters from becoming active in your opponent's next Refresh Phase. That locks attackers out of a turn and leaves them rested for Backlight's K.O. mode. Charlotte Katakuri becomes a 6000-power 3-cost once you have 6 or more rested cards, and rested DON!! count.

The finisher is the 9-cost Shanks, an 11000-power Character that K.O.s one of your opponent's rested Characters when it is played. The 8-cost Monkey.D.Luffy is a 10000-power body with a 1000 counter for the same turns.

Tips for your first games

• Attach the DON!! to Uta before she attacks; her reveal only works with one DON!! attached, and only once per turn.
• Backlight's K.O. mode only hits rested Characters, so anything your opponent attacked with is already a target; use the rest mode on a Character that stayed back, then K.O. it with Shanks or a second Backlight that turn.
• Fleeting Lullaby works on Characters that are already rested, so play it after your opponent attacks with them or after Backlight rests them.
• The ST16 Uta Character can trash a FILM card from your hand to give a rested DON!! to your Leader, which helps Uta attack with her DON!! on a tight turn.
• Gordon is a 2-cost Blocker that can trash Music cards from hand for +1000 each during your opponent's attack, so keep a spare Music Event when you expect a big swing.

Key cards in the box

Backlight

ST11-003

Rests a cost 5 or less Character, or K.O.s one that is already rested

New Genesis

ST11-004

Looks at 3 for a FILM card and sets a DON!! active, so it costs close to nothing

Fleeting Lullaby

P-057

Keeps two rested cost 4 or less Characters from becoming active next turn

Uta

ST16-001

A 6000-power Blocker that trashes a FILM card to give a rested DON!! to a card

Shanks

ST16-004

11000 power for 9, and K.O.s any rested Character on play

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: more FILM Characters that untap your DON!!

The box is short on Characters, so it has few bodies to block or counter with. These budget FILM Characters fill that gap, and most of them set DON!! active when they enter or at the end of your turn, which pays back the cost of the deck's Events. They replace Bartolomeo, I'm invincible and Tot Musica.

Gordon

OP13-024

A 2000-counter 1-cost that reveals a FILM card to set 2 DON!! active at end of turn

Uta

ST11-002

A 3-cost Blocker that trashes an Event to set a FILM Character active at end of turn

Roronoa Zoro

OP13-037

Sets 2 DON!! active on play with a FILM Leader, and untaps itself at end of turn

Sanji

OP13-027

7000 power for 5 that sets 2 DON!! active on play and 1 more each end of turn

Brook

OP13-034

A 3-cost that sets a DON!! active on play with a FILM Leader

Rest control and defense

The box rests Characters one at a time with Backlight. These cards rest more at once, rest your opponent's DON!!, or punish a K.O., so Shanks and Backlight have more rested targets. Nami and the 7-cost Uta cost more than the budget list, and the trade is a few slots of the box's counter-free Events.

Nami

OP14-031

Blocker that rests two Characters of cost 8 or less and sets up to 5 DON!! active at end of turn

Uta

EB03-061

Each turn sets a DON!! active and rests a DON!! or a cost 4 or less Character

Franky

OP13-033

A 5000-power 3-cost that rests two of your opponent's cards when it is K.O.'d

Koby

OP13-025

A 6000-power Blocker that sets a DON!! active with a FILM Leader

Helmeppo

OP13-036

A 6000-power 5-cost FILM Character with a 2000 counter

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.

Bartolomeo

P-029

Rotated out of Standard, so it goes first

I'm invincible

ST11-005

Three cost to set your Leader active again; a weak trade in most turns

Tot Musica

P-060

Rests your own Uta to rest two of your opponent's DON!!; situational

The World's Continuation

P-059

Returns your own Characters to hand for power; costs you board

Every card in ST-16

Bandai's card list for ST-16 has 15 different cards. 1 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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