ST-29 Egghead

Overview

ST-29 Egghead is a yellow Trigger deck. Its Leader, Monkey.D.Luffy (ST29-001), has 5000 power and 6 Life, one more than most Leaders. Its effect is small: when it attacks and you have 2 or less Life cards, you draw 1 card and trash 1. The extra Life card and the deck's [Trigger] effects carry most of the weight.

Most of the deck's 17 different cards share the Egghead and Straw Hat Crew types. Jinbe, Nami and Nico Robin all play themselves for free from a Trigger if your Leader is Monkey.D.Luffy, and Kaku, Rob Lucci and Iai Death Lion Song add removal that gets better as the Life totals drop. Roronoa Zoro (ST29-014) is the deck's top end: an 8000-power Character with [Rush: Character] that can trash a Trigger card from your hand to draw.

It suits a player who likes defensive, value-driven games and doesn't mind taking hits on purpose. It is also a good first look at how yellow works in the One Piece Card Game, since almost every yellow deck is built around Life cards and Triggers.

Monkey.D.Luffy

ST29-001

ST29-001, 5000 power, 6 Life: draws 1 and trashes 1 when attacking at 2 or less Life

Every card in ST-29 carries a current block icon, so the deck is legal in Standard as sold.

Ratings

These are TurnZero HQ's own read of the cards, not tournament results or an official Bandai rating. How we rate starter decks →

How it plays

The early turns are about building a board without overcommitting. Brook and Nico Robin are [Blocker]s, Sanji (ST29-004) finds another Straw Hat Crew card off the top 4, and Usopp rests an opponent's Character with a cost up to your opponent's Life count. You can afford to let a few early attacks through, because each Life card you lose goes to your hand and may hit a Trigger.

The middle of the game is where ST-29 turns around. Once you are at 2 or less Life, every Leader attack draws and trashes, Iai Death Lion Song adds a K.O. on cards with a cost of 3 or less, and the free Triggers from Jinbe, Nami and Robin start putting bodies on the board on your opponent's turn. Nami (ST29-008) also lets an Egghead Character survive a K.O. effect by turning a Life card face-up.

You close with large attackers. Roronoa Zoro hits for 8000 the turn it lands, Stussy and Franky are big bodies, and Kizaru!! Compared to Two Years Ago We're a Hundred Times Stronger Now!! gives your Luffy Leader [Unblockable] for the last swing.

Tips for your first games

• Don't spend counters to protect Life early in the game. With 6 Life, taking the first two or three hits is often better than losing cards from hand.
• Hold Iai Death Lion Song until you are at 2 or less Life, so its +4000 also K.O.s a Character with a cost of 3 or less.
• Raw Heat Strike only adds its −2000 at 1 or less Life, so it is a weaker counter early and a strong one late.
• Use Roronoa Zoro's ability to trash Trigger cards you can't use this turn, like a second Raw Heat Strike, to dig for the cards you need.
• Usopp's rest effect scales with your opponent's Life, not yours, so play it early when your opponent still has 4 or 5 Life cards.

Key cards in the box

Roronoa Zoro

ST29-014

8000 power with [Rush: Character], plus a repeatable draw that turns spare Triggers into cards

Iai Death Lion Song

ST29-017

+4000 counter that also K.O.s a cost 3 or less Character at 2 or less Life

Nami

ST29-008

Plays free from a Trigger and protects Egghead Characters from K.O. effects

Sanji

ST29-004

Finds a Straw Hat Crew card from the top 4 and can be played from a Trigger

Usopp

ST29-002

Rests a Character on play and on every attack while your opponent has Life left

Nico Robin

ST29-009

A 2000-counter [Blocker] that plays itself from a Trigger with your Luffy Leader

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 Egghead Triggers

The fastest improvement is to replace the blank Characters with Egghead cards whose Triggers do something. Your Leader has the Egghead type, so cards that check for it all work. S-Bear and Sentomaru remove small Characters when they flip, S-Snake stops an attacker, and OP07-109 Monkey.D.Luffy K.O.s a cost 4 or less Character from Life or from the field. Every card here is budget-priced, and the cost to the deck is a little raw power at 5 and 6 cost.

Monkey.D.Luffy

OP07-109

Trigger K.O.s a cost 4 or less; trash it at 2 or less Life to K.O. and draw

Sentomaru

OP12-104

Egghead body whose Trigger K.O.s a cost 4 or less Character

S-Bear

OP08-113

At 2 or less Life, its Trigger plays it and K.O.s a cost 3 or less

S-Snake

OP08-112

Stops a cost 6 or less Character from attacking, on play or from a Trigger

Franky

OP07-107

Trigger draws a card, and plays it too at 1 or less Life

Searchers and card flow

ST-29 has only one real searcher, Sanji. Adding two Liliths, a low-Life Sanji and Nami gives the deck more ways to find Triggers and removal, and it makes the Leader's late-game draw less important. These are mostly cheap; OP08-106 Nami costs a bit more but adds a K.O. on cost 5 or less. Expect to cut Brook and one copy of the 6-cost Characters.

Lilith

OP13-113

One cost: finds a Trigger card from the top 4, and repeats from a Trigger

Lilith

OP07-111

Finds any Egghead type card from the top 5

Sanji

EB02-054

A [Blocker] that draws 2 and trashes 1 when played at 2 or less Life

Nami

OP08-106

Trash a Trigger card to K.O. a cost 5 or less; also works as a Trigger

Gum-Gum Hawk Gatling

EB04-060

Puts an Egghead Character into Life face-up; Trigger draws 2 and trashes 1

Low-Life finishers

This idea raises the deck's top end for the turns after your Life runs low. The 10-cost Monkey.D.Luffy gets cheaper at 1 or less Life and gives your Leader +2000 through your opponent's turn, Jewelry Bonney (OP13-108) gains [Rush] with an Egghead Leader and takes a Life card when it lands, and OP09-105 Sanji puts a card back into your Life from a Trigger. Luffy and Sanji are the more expensive cards in this guide; Bonney and Gum-Gum Dawn Stamp are budget.

Monkey.D.Luffy

EB04-061

12000 power, costs 1 less at 1 or less Life, and shields your Leader

Jewelry Bonney

OP13-108

Gains [Rush] with an Egghead Leader and removes an opponent's Life card

Sanji

OP09-105

Trigger adds the top card of your deck to your Life with an Egghead Leader

Gum-Gum Dawn Stamp

OP13-117

Turn a Life card face-up to K.O. a base cost 6 or less Character

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.

Stussy

ST29-006

Six cost for a 7000-power body with no effect and no Trigger

Franky

ST29-010

A blank 6000-power body at 5 cost, with no Trigger to help when it flips from Life

Brook

ST29-011

A 2000-power [Blocker] with no Trigger; the deck has better early plays

Every card in ST-29

Bandai's card list for ST-29 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.

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