ST-19 Black Smoker

Overview

ST-19 is a mono-black Navy deck led by Smoker (OP02-093). Its 15 different cards are ten block 1 reprints, mostly from OP02, and five new ST19 Characters: Smoker, Sengoku, Tashigi, Hina and Monkey.D.Garp.

The deck's theme is cost reduction. Many cards give an opponent's Character minus cost, and several reward you when a Character's cost reaches 0. The Leader does this itself: with 1 DON!! attached, once per turn it gives a Character −1 cost, and if any Character is then at cost 0, the Leader gains +1000 power.

Smoker is a block 1 Leader and rotated out of Standard on April 1, 2026, along with every reprint in the box. The deck still works at home and under Bandai's Extra Regulation, where every card is legal except the ban list. It suits a player who enjoys removal and a bit of arithmetic.

Smoker

OP02-093

OP02-093, 5000 power, 5 Life: give a Character −1 cost, +1000 if any Character is at cost 0

The Leader OP02-093 and nine other cards (OP02-098, OP02-106, OP02-108, OP02-109, OP02-113, OP02-116, OP02-117, OP03-079, OP03-089) are block 1 and rotated on April 1, 2026; only the five ST19 cards are Standard legal.

Ratings

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How it plays

The deck wins by removing Characters until your opponent runs out of board, then attacking with bodies like Jaguar.D.Saul (OP02-109) and Smoker (ST19-001). Removal here comes in two steps: lower a cost, then K.O. or trash something at or under a cost limit.

Early, Brannew (OP03-089) finds a Navy card and Koby (OP02-098) K.O.s a 3 cost or less for a discard. Tsuru (OP02-106) gives −2 cost and Ice Age (OP02-117) gives −5, which lets Koby's 3 cost or less K.O. reach larger Characters. Helmeppo (OP02-113) gives −2 cost when it attacks and gains 2000 power if any Character is at 0.

In the midgame, Tashigi (ST19-003) is the payoff. With Smoker as your Leader she gives −4 cost when played, and on the turn she enters she can trash a cost 0 Character, which gets around effects that protect against K.O. Smoker (ST19-001) trashes a black Navy card to stop two 4 cost or less Characters from attacking, which buys a turn when you are behind.

Tips for your first games

• Play Tashigi (ST19-003) first, then add the Leader's −1 or Monkey.D.Garp's −1 to bring a Character from cost 5 to 0 before using her trash effect.
• The Leader needs 1 DON!! attached to activate, so give it a DON!! before using its effect in your Main Phase.
• Sengoku (ST19-002) needs two black Navy cards in hand to trash for 3 draws, so play it when you hold extra Navy cards you cannot use this turn.
• Hina (ST19-004) is cost 8 on your opponent's turn with a DON!! attached, which keeps it safe from many effects that target cost 7 or less.

Key cards in the box

Tashigi

ST19-003

−4 cost with a Smoker Leader, then trashes a cost 0 Character the turn she enters

Smoker

ST19-001

8000 power; trash a Navy card to stop two 4 cost or less Characters attacking

Koby

OP02-098

Trash a card to K.O. a 3 cost or less Character when played

Ice Age

OP02-117

−5 cost for 1 DON!!; its Trigger K.O.s a 3 cost or less Character

Monkey.D.Garp

ST19-005

Blocker that recycles a trash card to give −1 cost each turn

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 Navy to Sakazuki (P-076) for Standard

No black Smoker Leader is legal in Standard. The newer Smoker Leader (OP10-001) is red and green, so the black ST19 cards cannot join it. Sakazuki (P-076) is a blue and black Navy Leader that trashes a Navy card from hand once per turn to give −1 cost, close to what the old Smoker did. Sengoku, Smoker and Hina from this box all work under it, and these black Navy cards replace the rotated reprints. Tashigi's −4 needs a Smoker Leader, so she becomes a 6000 power body with a cost 0 trash effect.

Sakazuki (Pirates Party Vol. 7)

P-076

Standard blue and black Navy Leader: trash a Navy card for −1 cost each turn

Hina

ST06-008

5000 power 3 cost that gives −4 cost when played

I'm Gonna Be a Navy Officer!!!

OP11-099

Looks at 3 for a Navy card; its Trigger does the same

T-Bone

EB01-049

K.O.s a 2 cost or less Character when played; 2000 counter

Sengoku

EB02-044

7 cost Blocker that replays a 4 cost or less black Navy from your trash

Budget cost-zero removal

These cards add more ways to lower costs and more ways to cash in a cost 0 Character, and none of them asks for a specific Leader. Every card is under the budget line. Brook (EB01-046) does both halves of the plan on one card, and Three-Pace Hum Soul Notch Slash gives you a choice of K.O. or −4 cost. They are not Navy cards, so Brannew and the Navy search event cannot find them.

Brook

EB01-046

Gives −1 cost, then K.O.s a cost 0 Character, on play and on attack

Haute Couture Patch Work

OP05-094

−3 cost, and a cost 0 Character stays rested next turn

Three-Pace Hum Soul Notch Slash

EB02-051

Choose: K.O. a 2 cost or less, or give −4 cost

Scratchmen Apoo

OP08-087

Blocker that gives −1 cost once per turn

Navy defense and card flow

The box is light on Blockers and card draw. These Navy cards fill both gaps and work under any Navy Leader. Doll (EB04-046) is the one card here above the budget line, and Kujyaku pairs with Sengoku (ST19-002) because both turn spare Navy cards into draws.

Doll

EB04-046

Blocker; all your Navy Characters get +2 cost on your opponent's turn

Koby

EB04-044

7000 power; with a Navy Leader, trash a card instead of leaving the field

Koby

OP11-119

9000 power 8 cost; lets a Character attack active Characters

Kujyaku

EB03-041

6000 power 4 cost; trash a Navy card to draw 2

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.

Yamakaji

OP02-116

Vanilla 3 cost 5000; it adds nothing to the cost-reduction plan

Donquixote Rosinante

OP02-108

2000 power Blocker that loses most fights it blocks

Vergo

OP03-079

5 cost 5000 whose only effect stops battle K.O.; too slow for this plan

Every card in ST-19

Bandai's card list for ST-19 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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