ST-33 BLUE Kuzan

Overview

ST-33 is a mono-blue Navy deck led by Kuzan. The Leader has no activated ability. Instead, whenever one of your Navy cards trashes cards from your hand with its effect, you draw that many cards. That turns costs into card filtering: a Navy card that says "you may trash 1 card from your hand" no longer shrinks your hand.

Nearly every card in the box is a Navy card, and most of the useful ones have a trash cost. Sengoku trashes one to find two Navy cards, Smoker trashes one to send two cheap Characters to the bottom of the deck, and Zephyr(Navy) trashes two on play and draws you two with the Leader. Monkey.D.Garp and Borsalino give the deck a top end that can come down earlier than its printed cost.

The deck suits a player who likes control: keeping a full hand, answering small Characters, and holding off attacks with Ice Time and Kuzan rather than racing. It is a reasonable first blue deck because the Leader's rule is easy to remember.

Kuzan

OP12-040

OP12-040, 5000 power, 5 Life: draws a card for each card your Navy effects trash from hand

Every card in ST-33 is legal in Standard, including the OP12 and EB04 reprints in the box.

Ratings

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How it plays

Early on, use Koby and Smoker to replace the cards you trash and clear cheap Characters. Smoker's effect places up to two Characters with cost 2 or less at the bottom of the deck, which is strong on turns two and three when your opponent is still building a board. Sengoku is the best three-cost play because it finds two Navy cards and the Leader replaces the card you trashed.

In the middle turns, look for a turn where you trash a card by effect and then play Borsalino from hand: its own text gives it −3 cost during that turn, so a 6000-power Blocker costs three. Monkey.D.Garp at six puts a second blue Navy Character with 8000 power or less into play from your hand, such as Kuzan or Jango.

Later, Ice Time and the Kuzan Character stop your opponent's biggest attackers for a turn while you attack. Ice Time stops two Characters with 10000 power or less, which buys the time for your 8000-power Characters to close out the game.

Tips for your first games

• Count Ice Block Pheasant Peck as a 4000-power counter that replaces itself: you trash a card, and the Leader draws you one.
• Play a trash effect before Borsalino in the same turn so its −3 cost applies.
• Zephyr(Navy)'s trash of two is not optional, so play it when you have two cards you are happy to discard; the Leader draws two back.
• Save Zephyr(Navy) on the field as a later answer: trashing it returns a Character with cost 5 or less to its owner's hand.
• Bluegrass draws and trashes when it attacks, and the Leader adds one more draw because Bluegrass is a Navy card.

Key cards in the box

Sengoku

OP12-047

Finds two Navy cards, and the Leader replaces the card you trash

Smoker

ST33-003

Bottom-decks two Characters with cost 2 or less for two DON!!

Zephyr(Navy)

OP12-046

Trashes two to draw two, then trashes itself to bounce a cost-5 Character

Ice Block Pheasant Peck

OP12-057

A 4000 counter that the Leader turns into a replacement card

Borsalino

ST33-004

A 6000-power Blocker for three on any turn you trash by effect

Monkey.D.Garp

ST33-005

Plays a second blue Navy Character with 8000 power or less from 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.

Budget: more Navy cards that trash for value

The cheapest improvement is more cards that use the Leader's draw. Tashigi finds a Navy card for one DON!!, Hina and Issho each trash from hand to bounce or strip cards, and the OP12 Sakazuki and Monkey.D.Garp give the top end card draw and a free Character. Each replaces a vanilla body such as Jango or Fullbody, so the deck keeps its curve while every card does something with the Leader.

Tashigi

OP06-050

One-cost searcher that finds any other Navy card in the top five

Hina

EB03-025

Trash one to return a Character with exactly 6000 base power to hand

Issho

EB04-022

Trash two to bottom-deck two of a six-card opposing hand; −2000 on attack

Sakazuki

OP12-044

Draws two on play, then trashes one to give a rested DON!! each turn

Monkey.D.Garp

OP12-056

Trash one, draw one, then play a blue Navy Character with 8000 power or less

Add bottom-of-deck removal

The box can only remove Characters with cost 2 or less, so bigger threats stick around. Blue Navy has answers at several costs: Isuka is a Blocker that bottom-decks a cost-4 Character, Gravity Blade Raging Tiger handles two cost-6 Characters, and Aramaki trashes a card each turn to clear a small one. Removal costs you the counters on the bodies you cut, so keep Ice Block Pheasant Peck and Smoker in.

Isuka

EB03-022

A 6000 Blocker that bottom-decks a Character with cost 4 or less

Sakazuki

OP06-046

Bottom-decks a cost-2 Character on play, a clean answer to early drops

Ama no Murakumo Sword

OP06-056

Two-cost event that removes a cost-2 and a cost-1 Character

Gravity Blade Raging Tiger

OP06-058

Bottom-decks two Characters with cost 6 or less, with a removal Trigger

Aramaki

OP06-043

Blocker that trashes a card each turn to remove a cost-2 Character

Protect the board and the Life total

Once the Leader is drawing well, the deck can afford to spend cards on defense. Donquixote Rosinante and the OP12 Borsalino both trash from hand to save a Character from your opponent's effects, and the Leader draws back what they spend. Hina stops a key Blocker for your attacking turn, and White Snake is a counter that draws a card.

Donquixote Rosinante

OP12-048

Rests and trashes one to save a blue Navy Character from removal

Borsalino

OP12-053

Trashes instead of leaving the field; a 6000 Blocker on your opponent's turn

Hina

OP12-051

Trash one to stop a cost-4 Character from using Blocker this turn

White Snake

OP06-059

A 1000-power counter that also draws a card

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.

Jango

OP12-045

An 8000-power six-cost with no effect; Garp can still cheat it, but others do more

Fullbody

OP12-052

A vanilla 6000-power four-cost that never feeds the Leader

Sakazuki

ST33-002

Its attack effect needs your opponent at six or more cards in hand

Every card in ST-33

Bandai's card list for ST-33 has 15 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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