ST-34 PURPLE Charlotte Katakuri

Overview

ST-34 is a mono-purple Big Mom Pirates deck led by Charlotte Katakuri. Once per turn, when the Leader attacks or is attacked, you may return one DON!! card to your DON!! deck (DON!! −1) to look at the top card of your opponent's deck and give the Leader +1000 power for that battle.

That peek matters because several cards in the box ask you to choose a cost and reveal the top card of your opponent's deck. If the costs match, you get the effect. Charlotte Oven K.O.s a Character with base cost 3 or less, Charlotte Perospero draws a card and adds an active DON!!, Cognac Mama-Mash K.O.s a Character with base cost 8 or less, and When Two Men Are Fighting the Last Thing I Need Is Some Half-Hearted Assistance!!!! gives +5000 as a counter. With the Leader's look first, you know the right answer.

The rest of the deck refills DON!! as you spend it: the Charlotte Katakuri Character adds two DON!! when one returns on your turn, and Charlotte Cracker and Charlotte Pudding add one. It suits a player who enjoys planning a turn in order and keeping track of hidden information.

Charlotte Katakuri

OP11-062

OP11-062, 5000 power, 5 Life: DON!! −1 on attack or defense to peek at their top card, +1000

Every card in ST-34 is legal in Standard, including the OP11 and EB03 reprints and the P-090 Charlotte Smoothie promo.

Ratings

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How it plays

Early, play Charlotte Brulee to find a Big Mom Pirates card, and Charlotte Cracker or Charlotte Pudding to add DON!!. Pudding only adds DON!! when you have as many or fewer on your field than your opponent, which is usually true when you go second.

In the middle turns, attack with the Leader first and pay DON!! −1 to see your opponent's top card. Then, in the same Main Phase, use Charlotte Oven or Charlotte Perospero and name that cost; the top card has not changed, so the reveal matches. With the Charlotte Katakuri Character on the field, that DON!! −1 adds two rested DON!! back, so the peek also grows your DON!!.

Late, Cognac Mama-Mash removes a large Character once you know the cost, and Charlotte Linlin spends four DON!! and a card from hand to add a Life card and drop an opposing Character's base power to 0. Charlotte Smoothie punishes removal on your opponent's turn by playing another Big Mom Pirates Character from hand.

Tips for your first games

• Attack with the Leader before you activate Charlotte Oven or Charlotte Perospero, so the Leader's peek tells you which cost to name.
• On your opponent's turn, use the Leader's peek before you counter, then name the cost you saw with the +5000 counter event.
• Play the Charlotte Katakuri Character before your DON!! −1 effects on your turn, since its refund only works while it is on the field.
• Charlotte Anana only gains Blocker when you control another purple Big Mom Pirates Character, so play it after one.

Key cards in the box

Charlotte Oven

OP11-066

K.O.s a base cost 3 or less Character once the Leader shows you the cost

Charlotte Perospero

OP11-071

Draws and adds an active DON!! when the named cost matches

Charlotte Katakuri

ST34-001

Adds two DON!! when one returns on your turn, so each DON!! −1 nets one

When Two Men Are Fighting the Last Thing I Need Is Some Half-Hearted Assistance!!!!

OP11-079

A +5000 counter when your guess is right; the Leader's peek makes it right

Cognac Mama-Mash

OP11-081

K.O.s a base cost 8 or less Character on a matching reveal

Charlotte Cracker

ST34-002

Adds a rested DON!! and K.O.s a Character with cost 2 or less

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: refund the DON!! the Leader spends

The Leader spends a DON!! every time it peeks, and the box has only a few ways to get it back. These cheap Big Mom Pirates Characters fix that. Charlotte Pudding refunds one on your turn and the EB03 Charlotte Brulee refunds one on your opponent's turn when your own effect returned it, which covers the Leader's defensive peek. They replace weak bodies like Charlotte Flampe and Charlotte Anana.

Charlotte Pudding

OP08-067

Adds a rested DON!! when one returns on your turn

Charlotte Brulee

EB03-033

Refunds a DON!! returned by your effect on your opponent's turn

Charlotte Brulee

OP11-069

Takes a Life card to hand to add an active DON!! with this Leader

Charlotte Perospero

OP08-068

Adds a DON!! when K.O.'d, and its Trigger plays it for DON!! −1

More guessing and DON!! −1 removal

More cards that check your opponent's top card or spend DON!! for removal give the Leader's peek more to do. Streusen rests a Character on a correct guess, the OP08 Charlotte Oven K.O.s on attack, and Conquest of the Sea removes two Characters for DON!! −2. These cost you DON!!, so add them alongside the refund cards above.

Streusen

OP11-074

DON!! −1 and a matched cost rests a Character with cost 4 or less

Charlotte Oven

OP08-061

DON!! −1 when attacking K.O.s a Character with cost 3 or less

Conquest of the Sea

OP08-077

DON!! −2 K.O.s up to two Characters with cost 6 or less

Candy Maiden

OP08-075

One-cost event that rests a cost-2 Character, with a DON!! Trigger

Search and a stronger top end

For a more consistent deck, add searchers and stronger late plays. The OP11 Charlotte Pudding finds a Big Mom Pirates card and can peek at the top card on its own, and We're Going to Claim the One Piece!!! searches five cards. The OP11 Charlotte Katakuri readies two Characters each turn, Sanji & Pudding draws and adds an active DON!!, and the OP08 Charlotte Linlin adds a Life card and moves an opposing Character into their Life. This is the most expensive path.

Charlotte Pudding

OP11-070

Searches a cost-2-plus Big Mom Pirates card and can peek for DON!! −1

We're Going to Claim the One Piece!!!

OP07-077

One-cost event that searches five cards for a Big Mom Pirates card

Charlotte Katakuri

OP11-067

Blocker that sets two Big Mom Pirates active at end of turn and adds DON!!

Sanji & Pudding

EB02-035

Adds an active DON!! when two return at once, and can draw on play

Charlotte Linlin

OP08-069

Adds a Life card and puts an opposing cost-6 Character into their Life

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.

Charlotte Flampe

EB03-032

Its only effect is +2000 to a Charlotte Katakuri card on your turn

Charlotte Anana

OP11-065

A 1000-power Blocker that needs another purple Big Mom Pirates Character

Charlotte Daifuku

OP11-068

A six-cost 7000 with no effect; its 2000 counter is the main reason to keep it

Every card in ST-34

Bandai's card list for ST-34 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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