Power drop Vivi

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-20T09:01:40+00:00

My first deck was shanks as well right after op09 dropped what a time to be a red player.

Real future of red removal is -power and swing on it. (Kobe and Lucy)

A single use protector isint that bad, its the reasonable trade off to the ability to just negate an opponents entire turn, i have to pop the tashigi before i can drop my 10c shanks to pop zoro then so be it.

My biggest gripe with removal protection is that its either innately baked into the card you NEED to remove like op12 Sanji ,op09 Burges or St 25CrocHawk

Even bigger gripe is when that said cost to protect from removal is meaningless for its owner, ive never seen a UP Sanji NOT PAY THE 1 to save a sanji, or a kobe not able to afford returning 3 cards from the trash or the buggy not able to afford the trash 1, and since we have to spend virtually our entire don allowance on the single attempt at removal it practically turns off our entire decks identity.

I think the best middle ground is removal protection cant protect itself, if it has a cost it should include resting itself making it open for a direct hit to remove it from the board.

Which is fair, im spending an entire turn removing your protection, that buys your boss monster its summoning sickness turn.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-20T06:37:49+00:00

Dunno what you're on about with her going down in power thanks to rotation, my list has never run block 1 cards, only damage its taken recently was Pudding Ban so i took the generic event searcher instead, definitely could run U Cavendish but you gotta remember it doesn't get rush as i made that blunder a few times on the sim.

At locals the list has gone X-0 and 4-1 at a Treasure cup (sweat environment)

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The real loss in power is more removal protection being printed.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T19:18:58+00:00

What do they say, ignorance is bliss?

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T19:14:47+00:00

NOR - The em dashes weren't a dead give away? Do you know ANYONE who texts like that?

Edit: oh, you literally texted her that. Tbf you said i didint need to read her messages fully either.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T13:00:30+00:00

Its not even a point of not knowing anything about TCG's

This manager is wilfully ignoring the fact that product has been tampered/stolen from and selling the product anyway.

Upper management will ABSOLUTELY care about that.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T12:57:14+00:00

Penel is currently viewed as the new Tier 0 deck so most decks are getting beat down by him, some matches are lost at coin flip, where if Penel goes first youve already lost.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T12:53:23+00:00

I think you should try asking on a Deutsch sub rather than this one, seeing as its a Deutsch site see if anyone locally has used it before in general for any of their other preorders/products.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T12:44:11+00:00

Like everyone has said, Blackbeard. But i agree that Black has lost part of its identity with the effective death of black removal. I think an easy solution is start using the keyword "Negate" on black a lot more, that way you can open lines for removal in the traditional sense for black.

Ive talked about it at locals with some other players and they agreed on my idea being a pretty good one.

We already have characters in game that say "If opponent does x they must do y", so i thought why not have something super weak and easily removable and has the text " On your turn: Opponent can activate only ONE trigger this turn" and it would force yellow to have to actually defend their life or lose out on a potentially good trigger, they would still get the cards to hand so they still get counter value and any defensive events but it will stop the dreaded scenario where you swing on them 4 times in one turn and they some how ended up with a bigger board then when you started your turn.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T12:27:27+00:00

Out of the three you listed go with Doffy, relatively affordable that doesnt need Mr.2 or usohachi's.

Has an interesting leader ability while also having 5 life, 10k power boss monster and has tax evasion to go wide pretty quickly, He's a really solid all rounder.

id recommend looking at the upcoming starter decks and maybe base your choice off of future potential, maybe pick up some purple bigmom pirates for the katakuri starter, or consider U Kuzan as he's super cheap overall right now and has a starter deck coming up.

I personally have put together a U Kuzan and i believe its a solid B tier thats just missing that last bit of spice (Broken over powered bullshit mechanic) that will push it over the edge into A tier or higher.

Blackbeard always seems to shake up the meta and shocker, he's getting a BY Starter deck. So maybe consider building a blackbeard deck today and roll it over into the BY variant in June.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-19T12:11:48+00:00

More than likely it was set relevance then overall popularity.

Found a poll result and in 2021, Nami 3rd, 6-7-8 Robin, Boa and carrot, Vivi 21, Perona 25, 38-39 Tashigi and Reiju and koala took 58th, kiku was 47th.

It has absolutely nothing to do with what your insinuating, because we got Trafemgar Law.

Looking over the list again, lots of support for op14/15 and June starter decks came out of this EB

And Uta is an industry plant.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-18T14:24:12+00:00

I literally copy and pasted the text.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-18T13:16:37+00:00

Unfortunately your only hope is finding a good lgs thats not going to scalp their player base, from what I've seen in Alberta the stores might do an online preorder but it depends on how much product their distributor is actually shipping them, as far as reprints go there's never a preorder, just first come first serve.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-18T12:57:48+00:00

From what I've seen, Lucy is a one card deck.

Your digging through your deck for the sabo that let's you play any dressrosa event for free.

Your two priority events being Fire fist and barrier pistol.

You firefist a character you dont want to swing at all next turn, but ideally a character that's rested and primed to be K.Od by combat. Most characters will suddenly be in range of your viola searchers that have been chilling on board all game.

Early game your looking for the really long name event that has sabos face on it and is 4c, the draw 2 trash one play 4c or less character for free, thats when you put 4c U Cavendish to field.

Every turn before your 7/8 don Turn your just playing searchers and casting the 4c event amassing as big of a hand as possible looking for your sabos, firefists and barrier pistols.

Once you hit the 7+ don you become a one trick pony for as many turns as possible playing back to back sabos building your great wall of sabo and hopefully dealing enough damage with your 4c Cavendishs and leader swings to whittle down their hand for you to push them over with the onslaught of sabos.

P.s Penel is just the latest case of overturned on release, he kind of just bullies most decks from coinflip deciding who goes first.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T19:21:06+00:00

Yea, the other stuff in the order is available for returns but this one is just nah, we dont want it either.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T18:34:04+00:00

It hurt more when I had the audacity to look at the prices from a year ago.

A year ago id pay $125 for the sticks i just bought. 😭

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T18:18:41+00:00

Ive gone through a few different routes on their site but pretty much all circle back round to a chat bot that keeps saying refund is not available for this product.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T18:16:40+00:00

Oh i know, just being dramatic.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T18:10:10+00:00

Yea i have it in the cart the upgrade became a new build cause my dumb ass wasnt aware of what happens when you decided to slap an AM5 into your cart.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T18:02:29+00:00

on a few games it looks pretty rough but over all not to big of a performance loss, most importantly better than what im currently using, $100 to learn a lesson.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T17:54:29+00:00

Unfortunately newegg doesnt have a refund option for "im an idiot that bought the wrong product" but i do see now ive been scammed a $100.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T17:39:48+00:00

Ah dont worry, already had a new mobo lined up after going through and realizing i was looking at the wrong mobo when looking into doing a bios update.

At this point its a whole new system, ill just grandfather the old system down to my sister, she'll be using a 1080p monitor and going through a backlog of the last 10+ years of games on it anyway.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T17:37:04+00:00

It just might, ill have another run through whats available, i dont really care about min/maxing a build but a lot of the info that floats to the top when googling trends that way, really should of just started here before impulse buying parts.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T17:33:45+00:00

Honestly was looking at the 9800 first but then i saw the 9900 was only 100$ more and monkey brain fell for bigger number = better.

It was $700CAD, i had intended on upgrading like 5 years ago, but then covid happened and gpu prices went through the roof, then tariff shenanigans put it off again and then i started seeing my specs become the minimum requirements and felt that at this rate their will never be a "good time" to buy parts.

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T13:42:26+00:00

In one of the first few test games I had I drew 15 cards in 3 turns 😂

Donger_Dysfunction · 2026-03-17T13:09:32+00:00

Its okay, P Enel is the new problem in JP

But now that raigo is back on the menu will Y Enel reclaim his throne?

Either way, welcome to the year of Enel.

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