ST-36 YELLOW Eustass"Captain"Kid

Overview

ST-36 is a mono-yellow Supernovas deck led by Eustass"Captain"Kid. At the end of your turn, you may turn the top card of your Life face-up. If you do, one of your Supernovas Characters with cost 3 to 8 becomes active and gains Blocker until the end of your opponent's next turn. Your best attacker swings, then stands back up to guard.

Turning Life face-up has a cost: your opponent can see that card. The box includes ways to work with your Life. The Eustass"Captain"Kid Character turns a Life card face-down to redirect an attack to itself, Killer adds a card to your Life under a Kid Pirates Leader, and Cavendish adds one when it is K.O.'d.

The deck suits a player who wants to learn yellow's Life tools. It is not a forgiving first deck, because the box gives you few ways to remove your opponent's Characters.

Eustass"Captain"Kid

OP10-099

OP10-099, 5000 power, 5 Life: end of turn, flip a Life face-up to ready a Supernovas as a Blocker

Every card in ST-36 is legal in Standard, including the OP10, OP12 and OP13 reprints and the P-085 and P-088 promos.

Ratings

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How it plays

Early, play Monkey.D.Luffy or The One Who Is the Most Free Is the Pirate King!!! to find Supernovas Characters, and Bartolomeo to trade a Supernovas card for two draws. Capone"Gang"Bege can take a Life card into your hand and put a Supernovas Character from hand on top of your Life face-up.

From turn three or four, play Characters in the cost 3 to 8 range and attack with them. At the end of each turn, use the Leader to ready the strongest one as a Blocker. Killer at four adds a Life card on your turn, and Jewelry Bonney at five puts an opposing Character with cost 4 or less into their Life once you are at equal or fewer Life than your opponent.

Late, the Eustass"Captain"Kid Character pulls attacks onto itself and can give the Leader a rested DON!!. Roronoa Zoro plays a cost-4 Supernovas Character rested when it is K.O.'d, and Trafalgar Law and Scratchmen Apoo give you value when your Life cards reveal them as Triggers.

Tips for your first games

• Ready the Character your opponent most wants to attack, not the one with the most power.
• Use the Eustass"Captain"Kid Character's face-down effect on a face-up Life card to hide what the Leader showed.
• Bonney's removal checks Life when it is played, so play it after your opponent has dealt you damage.
• Count Killer's Trigger: it only plays itself when your opponent has 3 or less Life.

Key cards in the box

Eustass"Captain"Kid

ST36-005

Redirects an attack to itself and gives the Leader a DON!!, both via Life

Killer

ST36-002

Adds a Life card on your turn under a Kid Pirates Leader

Monkey.D.Luffy

OP10-111

One-cost searcher that finds a Supernovas card in the top five

The One Who Is the Most Free Is the Pirate King!!!

OP13-116

One-cost search for a Supernovas Character, and its Trigger does the same

Jewelry Bonney

P-085

The box's main removal: puts a cost-4 Character into your opponent's Life

Roronoa Zoro

OP12-113

Replaces itself with a cost-4 Supernovas when K.O.'d

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: better Supernovas bodies for the Leader to ready

The Leader readies a Supernovas Character with cost 3 to 8, so every Character in that range should be worth readying. These cheap upgrades are bigger or more useful than Urouge and Scratchmen Apoo. The OP10 Killer searches when K.O.'d, Caribou cannot be K.O.'d in battle while your opponent has 3 or more Life, and the OP10 Cavendish and OP17 Capone"Gang"Bege give the deck 8000-power Blockers once the Leader readies them.

Killer

OP10-106

5000 for three; searches a Supernovas or Kid Pirates card when K.O.'d

Caribou

OP10-104

With a DON!!, cannot be K.O.'d in battle while they have 3 or more Life

Cavendish

OP10-105

An 8000-power six-cost for the Leader to ready

Capone"Gang"Bege

OP17-100

An 8000-power seven-cost with a 2000 counter

Eustass"Captain"Kid

OP10-112

Rests itself on play to trash the top card of your opponent's Life

Add the removal the box is missing

Removal is the box's biggest gap. Damned Punk K.O.s a Character with cost 5 or less, Black Rope Dragon Twister K.O.s two when you have fewer Characters, and the OP17 Caribou gives −3000 each turn for a Life card. Slam Gibson and Let's Meet Again in the New World double as counters, so they replace weak bodies without costing defense.

Damned Punk

OP10-116

K.O.s a cost-5 Character and lets you rearrange a Life card

Black Rope Dragon Twister

EB04-059

Flips a Life to K.O. a cost-6 and a cost-5 Character when behind on board

Caribou

OP17-101

Takes a Life card to give −3000 each turn; its Trigger K.O.s a cost-5

Slam Gibson

OP12-117

Rest five DON!! to put a cost-9 Character into its owner's Life, or +3000 counter

Let's Meet Again in the New World

OP10-115

A +4000 counter whose Trigger K.O.s a small Character

Protect your Characters with Life

These cards turn your Life into protection for the Characters the Leader readies. The OP11 Capone"Gang"Bege moves a Supernovas Character into your Life instead of letting removal take it, and the OP13 Jewelry Bonney turns a Life card face-up instead of leaving. The OP15 Urouge turns a Life card face-down, which undoes the Leader's flip, and Trafalgar Law is a 7000 Blocker the Leader can ready. These are a little pricier, so add them after the budget path.

Capone"Gang"Bege

OP11-101

Blocker that sends a removed Supernovas to your Life instead

Jewelry Bonney

OP13-109

Turns a Life card face-up instead of being removed

Urouge

OP15-099

Turns a Life card face-down to give a rested DON!!

Trafalgar Law

OP12-106

A six-cost 7000 Blocker that the Leader can also ready

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.

Urouge

OP10-101

A five-cost 7000 with no effect

Scratchmen Apoo

ST36-003

No effect when played; it only helps when revealed as a Trigger

Cavendish

ST36-001

Its Life gain needs it to be K.O.'d and costs a card from hand

Every card in ST-36

Bandai's card list for ST-36 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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