ST-17 Blue Donquixote Doflamingo

Overview

ST-17 is a mono-blue Seven Warlords of the Sea deck led by Donquixote Doflamingo (OP01-060). The box has 15 different cards: ten reprints from earlier sets and five new ST17 Characters (Crocodile, Trafalgar Law, Buggy, Boa Hancock and Marshall.D.Teach).

The Leader is the reason to play it. When it attacks with 2 DON!! attached, you can rest 1 more DON!! to reveal the top card of your deck, and if that card is a Seven Warlords Character with a cost of 4 or less, you may play it rested for free. Most of the deck's Characters qualify, and several of them let you arrange the top of your deck so the reveal hits.

Doflamingo is a block 1 card, so the Leader rotated out of Standard on April 1, 2026, along with every reprint in the box. You can still play the deck at home, against other starter decks, or under Bandai's Extra Regulation, where every card is legal except the ban list. It suits a player who likes planning a turn ahead and does not mind a deck that gets a little luck from the top card.

Donquixote Doflamingo

OP01-060

OP01-060, 5000 power, 5 Life: on attack, reveal the top card and play a cost 4 or less Warlord rested

The Leader OP01-060 and nine other cards (OP01-073, OP01-086, OP02-054, OP02-057, P-030, ST03-002, ST03-004, ST03-005, ST03-008) are block 1 and rotated on April 1, 2026; only the five ST17 cards are Standard legal.

Ratings

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How it plays

The deck wins by getting more Characters onto the board than its DON!! should allow. Each Leader attack with the reveal can add a free 4 cost body, which lets you spend your real DON!! on a second Character or on counters.

In the first turns, play the cards that set up the top of your deck. Buggy (ST17-003) looks at the top 3 and puts them back in any order, Donquixote Doflamingo (OP01-073) and Boa Hancock (ST17-004) look at 5 and 3, and Marshall.D.Teach (ST17-005) can put a Warlord from your hand on top. Bartholomew Kuma (OP02-057) finds more Warlords. Once you have 4 DON!!, attaching 2 to the Leader and resting a third turns every Leader attack into a possible free Character.

Late in the game, Trafalgar Law (ST17-002) returns a blocker or attacker with a cost of 4 or less, and Overheat (OP01-086) does the same on defense while adding 4000 power. Dracule Mihawk (ST03-005) keeps your hand fresh by drawing 2 and trashing 2 when it attacks. Push damage with the Leader and two or three 5000 power Characters each turn.

Tips for your first games

• Before the Leader attacks, check the top card. If it is not a Warlord Character with a cost of 4 or less, set it up first with Buggy, Hancock or Teach.
• Marshall.D.Teach (ST17-005) puts a card from your hand on top of your deck and then gives up to 2 rested DON!! to the Leader, which sets up both halves of the reveal in one action.
• Characters from the reveal enter rested, so they cannot block that turn. Keep a blocker such as Boa Hancock (ST17-004) or Trafalgar Law (ST03-008) back if your Life is low.
• Crocodile (ST17-001) draws 2 only when the revealed card is a Seven Warlords card, and then you must put 1 card from your hand back on top, which can be the Warlord you want the Leader to reveal next.

Key cards in the box

Boa Hancock

ST17-004

6000 power Blocker that arranges your top 3 and gives a rested DON!! to a Warlord

Marshall.D.Teach

ST17-005

Puts a Warlord on top for the Leader's reveal and attaches 2 rested DON!!

Buggy

ST17-003

1 cost, 2000 counter, and orders your top 3 cards for the reveal

Trafalgar Law

ST17-002

Bounces an opponent's 4 cost or less Character when your Leader is a Warlord

Bartholomew Kuma

OP02-057

Looks at 2 and adds a Seven Warlords card to your hand

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.

Move the Warlords to Boa Hancock (OP07-038) for Standard

No blue Doflamingo Leader is legal in Standard. The newer Doflamingo Leader (OP14-060) is purple, so the blue cards here cannot follow it. Boa Hancock (OP07-038) is a blue Seven Warlords Leader that draws a card on your turn when your effect removes a Character and you have 5 or fewer cards in hand, which pairs with Trafalgar Law (ST17-002) returning Characters. This path keeps the five ST17 cards and replaces the rotated reprints with Warlords that search, cheat and protect. It costs you the free plays from the old Leader, so the deck becomes a slower bounce deck.

Boa Hancock

OP07-038

Standard-legal blue Warlords Leader that draws when your effects remove a Character

Jinbe

PRB02-007

Looks at 5 for a Seven Warlords card, then bottoms a 1 cost Character on attack

Jinbe

OP07-045

Plays a 4 cost or less Warlord from your hand, such as ST17 Law, for free

Boa Hancock

OP07-051

Stops 1 Character from attacking and bottoms a 1 cost Character

Gecko Moria

OP07-042

With a Warlords Leader, bottoms another of your Characters instead of leaving

Keep the top-of-deck reveal with a Doflamingo Character

Donquixote Doflamingo (OP07-048) is a 3 cost Character that does what the old Leader did: once per turn, rest 2 DON!! to reveal the top card and play a Seven Warlords Character with a cost of 4 or less rested. Add Characters that order the top of your deck and the box's Buggy, Hancock and Teach keep feeding it. The cost is tempo, since you spend 3 DON!! on a 4000 power body before it does anything.

Donquixote Doflamingo

OP07-048

Repeats the old Leader's reveal and free play from the Character area

Edward Weevil

OP07-039

Looks at 3 and arranges them each time it attacks with a DON!! attached

Crocodile

EB02-023

Arranges your top 3 whenever your effect returns an opponent's Character

Edward Weevil

EB01-023

6000 power 4 cost that draws 1, a good card to hit off the reveal

Budget bounce and counters

Every card here sits under the budget line, and each one fixes a gap in the box: it has few events and only one way to remove a Character on your turn. Edward Weevil (OP08-042) and Marshall.D.Teach (OP12-054) add bounce, and Snake Dance and Perfume Femur add the counter and push events the box lacks. Boa Hancock (OP13-051) draws only when your Leader is Boa Hancock or multicolored, so it belongs in the OP07-038 build.

Edward Weevil

OP08-042

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

Marshall.D.Teach

OP12-054

1 cost that bounces a 1 cost or less Character under a Warlords Leader

Snake Dance

OP07-055

+4000 counter that can also return one of your own Characters

Perfume Femur

OP07-057

+2000 to a Warlord and stops Blockers for that attack

Boa Hancock

OP13-051

5000 power 3 cost that draws 2 when K.O.'d, with a Hancock or multicolored 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.

Trafalgar Law

ST03-008

1000 power Blocker with no counter value and no other effect

Edward Weevil

ST03-002

Vanilla 3 cost; it does nothing to set up or use the reveal

Gecko Moria

OP02-054

Vanilla 4 cost 6000; fine stats, but another Warlord with an effect does more

Every card in ST-17

Bandai's card list for ST-17 has 15 different cards. 10 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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