With the release of OP-04, the Donquixote Pirates archetype was introduced for Green in theOne Piece Card Game. The set brought a ton of neat cards that focused their gameplan on resting your opponent’s character while maintaining control of the game. The archetype felt a bit incomplete and forced players to move to a Film package of cards for their Donquixote Doflamingo decks.
Now with OP-05 and the other half of the Donquixote Pirates being released, the deck has come together better than ever. Instead of waiting until the end game to drop the mighty Doflamingo, now you can consistently control your opponent’s board throughout the entire game, then remove their characters with the Birdcage stage card.
9Kuween
Everybody Needs A Simple Blocker
The Blue Green Leader card in OP-05 Donquixote Rosinante can block your opponent’s characters from attacking some of your more precious characters on board. This can let you push a card advantage by drawing from your life while protecting your fragile searchers.
With a searchable blocker like Kuween, you now have another layer of protection against any shenanigans that your opponent wants to try against Little Miss Baby 5 or Jewelry Bonney, if you’re playing the extremely popular Supernova package.
8Charleston
Defend All Of Your Characters!
Both Doflamingo Pirates decks tend to lean more on the defensive side of the One Piece Card Game. Rosinante can block with his Leader ability to protect vulnerable characters, while Doflamingo can set two DON!! as active at the end of your turn to set up potential defensive counters.
With the new Charleston event card, you’ll able to counter with 4,000 power for two DON!! while setting three more as active. That means you may use another Charlestone to set three more and then use two more Charlestone to set six active then use three more Punk Gibson or whatever other counter events you have in hand.
7Donquixote Doflamingo
The Young Warlord Comes Into Play
While most of the time the only top end that the Donquixote Pirates care about is 10-drop Doflamingo, this other seven-drop might not be the worst idea. This card can rest a six-cost card, which is a pretty decent cost since most cards can only hit a four or less, while still being a decent attacker.
Although this card doesn’t have any counter power, OP-05 introduced many cards that can help you filter some of these dead cards in hand.
6Birdcage
Doflamingo’s Ultimate Attack
Even though most people prefer the Film Doflamingo build for the Green Purple version of the deck, the cards found in OP-05 can transform the deck into a character resting machine.
Birdcage will not allow your opponent’s characters, which cost five or less to become active, actively freezing your opponent from doing anything with the characters they already have on play. The card becomes even more deadly once you reach the 10 DON!! threshold because Birdcage will K.O. all of those rested characters.
Monet
Ceasar Clown’s Devious Assistant
Cards like Uta from ST-05 are a great way to stop your opponent’s aggression by resting their other attackers and swinging the tempo your way. Her effect can be costly since you have to return DON!! back to the deck.
With Monet, you can do the same thing at a cheaper DON!! cost and without using a DON!! minus ability. Her power is substantially smaller than Uta, making Monet an excellent target for removal cards like Seaquake and Marco from OP-02.
4Stick-Stickem Meteora
Trebol’s Stick-Stick Fruit Follow-Up Attack!
Counter cards like Gum-Gum Red Hawk can be great ways to stop your opponent’s ferocious attacks. They can remove a character while defending against another. That summarizes what Green decks want to do in the One Piece Card Game.
With Stick-Stickem Meteora, combined with all the Donquixote Pirates card that can rest your opponent’s characters, can K.O. any problematic unit that your opponent has on play, as long as they are under three cost. Luckily, all the events released in OP-05 are only two-drops, making them excellent additions to the current Doflamingo pool of cards.
3Because The Side Of Justice Will Be Whichever Side Wins!!
Doflamingo’s Proclamation at Marineford
Long name aside, this is one of the best event cards for the Donquixote Pirates decks. Being so reliant on10-drop Doflamingo from OP-04, the deck can run into many situations without counters in hand, and unless you leave more DON!! active all of the event cards will also be useless.
Because The Side Of Justice… can trash a dead card to give you a 3,000 power counter for your next battle when your opponent thinks you are all out of events in hand.
2Donquixote Rosinante
The Donquixote Pirates’ Double Agent
Just like the blocker Kuween, this Rosinante card is another blocker to protect your life or other character cards, but this one has another effect that makes it way stronger than a simple blocker. Whenever one of your characters was to be destroyed, you’re able to trash Rosinante to prevent that K.O.
It only works on rested characters, but you can play around with that simple condition. Your Rosinante can protect some of the more difficult cards in the game, like Eustass Kid
1Baby 5
The Weapons Master Of The Donquixote Pirates
Baby 5 is literally the same card asST-02 Jewelry Bonney, albeit with a smaller card pool. If you know anything about the game, you know that Bonney is easily one of the best searchers in the game, alongside OP-01 Nami. So if a card is even, remotely, compared to Bonney, it must be good.
Baby 5 doesn’t have as many targets to search as Bonney, but being able to find 10-drop Doflamingo, along with the myriad of events available for the archetype, makes this card a must-play.
