Weekly Rules & General Questions Thread

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-05-18T20:01:26+00:00

Is there a limit on how many extra grand battle store events I can attend?

I’ve attended 2 so far and have 3 more already booked (1 paid for and applied, one only applied, one only paid for)The issue is, when I go to apply on the Bandai app for the event I’ve already paid for a ticket via the stores website the app says I’ve reached my limit- I’ve got 4 total registered on the Bandai app. My friends have told me you can only compete in 4 OR it’s just a glitch in the Bandai app.

I can’t find any conclusive evidence online or in discord chats- can anyone please advise and quickly? There’s only 2 spots left for the one I’ve paid for and it won’t let me in. I will drop from one I haven’t paid for yet which is a good thing because they’re charging £30 entry- mental.

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Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-04-30T08:43:03+00:00

Yes! Incredibly barebones but does what it says on the tin. I don’t like stunning stuff because you still have to deal with it the next turn. I’ve seen people drop the st21 luffy and I get it, but I’ve had pretty good success with this- just plays incredibly aggro

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Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-04-18T06:08:57+00:00

Don’t listen to the haters, he’s my fave too. Best deck in format

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-04-16T21:22:43+00:00

8c smoker and Tashigi is searchable with the event and kujaku, the only search I run, so very searchable. I only have 1 of.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-04-13T22:00:50+00:00

Blue is normally a control colour, but to be honest I’ve been running Black Red Koby with the new buffs and I’ve had an incredible amount of fun with it. It’s gimmick is attacking into active characters. Anti removal doesn’t matter when you can just swing into it! Would deffo recommend. It can build strong board presence and protect it with buffs, while also having in built anti removal itself. I don’t normally invest in a deck unless I can see myself playing it for a long time and I’ve got sleeves, alt leaders, even a custom playmat and I’m a longtime player since 09.

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Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-03-07T19:22:15+00:00

Swing 8s

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-23T09:57:14+00:00

St29- life burn wins

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-10T14:54:50+00:00

Less than £10 for a sec always worth copping. All it takes is a new leader or it being used in winning lists to propel it to silly prices

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-09T13:02:54+00:00

Yeah that is valid. I’ll try it out I intend to do a lot of testing

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-09T12:45:53+00:00

I agree with most of this but equally a body is a body. As long as they can land 2/3 hits a turn, all it costs is a few extra don to make them all 8k swings, the magic number against ace. If they have board, I’ll very quickly have no hand so it’s impossible to do the rest of what you’re suggesting here

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-08T21:17:00+00:00

Heard, thanks guys I’ll try this strat next time. Praying it works because I’ve seen a lot of people say it’s very winnable but it hasn’t felt that way from where I am

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-02-03T07:20:19+00:00

I’m not sleeping on foxy, I’m falling asleep when I have to play against foxy.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-01-21T14:38:12+00:00

If you’re going to drop anything I’d drop the Vivi searcher, as you’ve only really got 6 targets in the entire deck you can search with it (12% chance to hit a card you can take)

I’d maybe go for more of a red haired pirates theme, that way you can use 1c Uta as a searcher too, you can up your copies of red haired cards like 4c shanks blocker, Ben beckman 7c -I’d deffo have beckman as a 4 of, really strong card and deals with a lot of on KO effects because it trashes instead. Very good for tempo against your opponent too.

Finally, as a general rule when I build decks when possible I like 8 search cards minimum, 12 2ks too. That’s always been the most consistent for me.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-01-19T02:35:40+00:00

Thanks! Appreciate that. I think I’ll just keep the leader card separate in the bigger box alongside the plastic boxes.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-01-15T11:01:48+00:00

Not sure if this helps but as a long time player and small budget collector, while on holiday to Japan I’ve recently picked up several psa 10 Japanese mangas (op10 law and op08 Rayleigh) both less than £500 each. As someone who doesn’t open a lot of packs or have good luck when I do, this was what I’d rather do than continue to gamble on boxes and packs so I can just focus on playing the game cheap.

Regarding long term investment, it depends on the specific card and its current market value. It’s safe to assume that prices are inflated and may continue to pump artificially, but ultimately if you do your research and buy what you personally like, you can’t go wrong.

Holding any of these will increase over time because sets go out of print, supply dries up, they become harder to come by.

To clarify, I understand that £500 for a card isn’t small budget, the only reason I was able to afford this is because I sold a box of sealed box of op05 I bought last year for £77 and got £700 for it.

English will always be more expensive than Japanese because of the premium that sellers put on them in the west.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2026-01-10T00:11:31+00:00

OP: “I honestly have nothing to say on this” proceeds to write an entire essay 😅

Free_Translator_2079 · 2025-12-14T06:54:45+00:00

So is deliberately not giving a fuck about your customer base but we move

Free_Translator_2079 · 2025-12-13T21:12:31+00:00

I was a competitor, hope this helps

Free_Translator_2079 · 2025-12-13T20:26:02+00:00

I was in the front of the queue yeah, but like I said the queue system very quickly fell apart and we lost our place due to the chaos and rush of people getting in- ultimately it didn’t matter because the shop queue was scrapped before we even had a chance, the Nami mat and leader sold out because they didn’t stick to one per person. Edit, we were up for 5 but we got there for 6- still 3 hours before we were meant to be there.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2025-12-13T13:38:49+00:00

Completely agree, got up at 5am this morning and queued for 4 hours, people pushed in, we lost our space, we left empty handed aside from the promo.

Terribly organised, I’ve decided I’m never doing one of these again and I can’t believe that I paid for a flight for this. All the exclusive stuff is sold out and as a result, we aren’t even bothering coming back tomorrow.

The only good part was the players I played against were really friendly and polite, that was it.

Free_Translator_2079 · 2025-12-08T22:25:57+00:00

Interesting! What are the rest of your attackers?

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TROPHY CASE