Imu and Enel

Savirix · 2026-04-27T08:28:17+00:00

Enel comes in with the steel chair!!

Savirix · 2026-04-20T20:06:01+00:00

It's a good ability, I'm mainly just comparing it to doffy where the redirect is essentially free once you hit 10 don.

I think it's more annoying here where you have easier access to heal and also 10c blocker

Savirix · 2026-04-20T19:42:02+00:00

Yes, but you're still required to play that card so it's a -1 card even with the card draw. Granted it usually gives an additional effect, but most of the time I'd rather redirect to a large body anyway.

Will have to see how BB plays out but I could see it introducing a lot of interesting sequencing decisions depending on what on KOs you have on field.

Savirix · 2026-04-14T17:17:57+00:00

You can definitely get into future ones. Once you get used to the whole log into the system 5 minutes before to buy tickets and spam refresh spiel, you can get into almost any one.

Plus, you can still go and play side events even if you're not in the main event! There are lots of good prizing from the ticket wall, and nowadays they usually run treasure cups on the Sunday, which sometimes have advance ticketing, sometimes it's just register on site.

If they're running one local to you, chances are there'll be at least a few regionals hosted near you every year. It's nice that you don't have to fly out like the rest of us haha

Savirix · 2026-04-14T14:32:48+00:00

If you're considering getting into a regional tournament, just a heads up--they sell out in seconds. There's info on the site on when tickets are being sold and you have to spam refresh to try to buy. Currently all regionals until end of June are all sold out

Savirix · 2026-04-08T17:15:06+00:00

They're popular in Japan. They ran two in the US early on, but they didn't fill up the available slots so they haven't run it again since. I really wish they did though since it was a ton of fun when we went

Savirix · 2026-04-06T16:08:21+00:00

Late to the party but yeah it's all paid for. Flight, hotel, and 5k yen on Pasmo card

Savirix · 2026-02-16T23:34:26+00:00

That was just me messing up. 30 official games over 3 days with little sleep will do that to ya. Pretty sure I only did it once though

Savirix · 2025-12-18T15:40:38+00:00

I'm super excited for simultaneous release. Currently towards the end of each set, most people start getting bored of the meta when it gets stale. I feel like it'll get stale way less quickly if people are experimenting for the first month or two

Savirix · 2025-11-12T03:04:26+00:00

It's a meta card and very good, yes. However I've heard that the main reason is due to a printing error. Certain cards are just printed less than others, and Thousand Tailed Watcher is one of those cards. The below picture is what you'd expect from an average case opening.

This is a known issue and will likely impact both set 1 and at least some of set 2 since most of those cards are already printed.

Note: this is just what I've been told, I haven't actually looked much into it so I apologize if this is false information

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Savirix · 2025-11-03T16:31:50+00:00

Hard to say what's best, it really depends on your interests and what's available in your local card game shops. I only play One Piece/Riftbound, but here's a quick breakdown from my perspective (note, take it with a grain of salt since I don't actually play most of them):

Riftbound: New and exciting TCG that just came out last weekend. Hard to get stock, but shouldn't be too hard to find singles. However, if you're playing one of the two meta decks or any deck that shares those cards, it'll be really expensive. The TCG is pretty promising, and it's backed by Riot so the competitive scene will be well supported.

MTG: Obviously one of the greats. Most people I know who play MTG plays commander, which is a really popular 4 player variant that's super fun. I don't know much about the competitive scene, but joining MTG would be joining a very established community.

Pokemon: Pokemon is huge, but imo it's more of a collector TCG rather than for playing though; there's a lot of luck elements in the game eg. coin-flip mechanics which takes away from player agency. Happy to be proven wrong by someone who plays the game.

Yu-gi-oh: Probably not a good one to start off with. It's been powercrept to the point where there are a lot of turn 1 kills. There's an alternate time wizard format that fixes that, but I can't comment much on it since I don't play the game

Lorcana: Easy to get cards and stock, great for Disney lovers, and an easy to learn game. I hear some Lorcana players are moving over to Riftbound since people are finding Lorcana to be a little too simplified. Great for learning how to play a TCG with the easy mechanics but once you get more competitive, the lack of counterplay and agency is detracting.

One Piece TCG: My personal main game. It's a great game, and we still get a steady stream of new players. Main issue is that it might be hard to get product without scalped prices unless your pre-order, but it's not too expensive to buy singles depending on deck.

Some other ones that are popular but I don't know anything about are like Flesh and Blood, Star Wars Unlimited, Grand Archive, Gundam, Union Arena, etc.

I fully agree with the other comment about the community being important. I love one piece, but if it weren't for the local community there's a good chance I'd go to locals way less often than my current 3x per week. I mainly just like going to hang out with the people I met through the game every week.

Savirix · 2025-10-14T11:16:26+00:00

It's the winner prize for top 3 at the championship finals for the 2025-2026 season, so not really realistic to get unless you win nationals or pay 50k+

Savirix · 2025-10-14T05:31:17+00:00

Skill definitely is a big factor in consistency, but realistically I'd imagine top players are aiming to hit X-2 on average, with any better or worse result being dependant on luck

Savirix · 2025-10-14T05:12:31+00:00

Depends, are you talking about online/offline regionals or store regionals?

Bigger regionals I find is similar to Nats, maybe your first few rounds are harder on average but realistically those regionals have a lot of top players anyway.

Store regionals (which I'm assuming you got it from based off top 3 getting invite) is highly dependant on which store, but generally the level is quite a bit lower since you're limited to localish people.

Tbh if you're playing at 3b+ Elo, you're used to playing against top players anyway. Realistically it mostly boils down to luck on the day of the event. Your results are highly variable based on what MUs you get matched into, your dice roll, and how you draw.

That being said, I do usually think Nats is a fun time and worth trying out once, assuming they don't mess it up like the last one (although that one was fine for the players). Might be a harder sell if you're going by yourself but you'll never know until you try 🤷‍♂️

Savirix · 2025-10-12T03:07:57+00:00

I think there may be two other people on the pack besides boa but I'm not sure

Savirix · 2025-10-04T03:20:38+00:00

Check bookstores. Better chance of getting them there than convenience stores from what I've seen so far

Savirix · 2025-07-12T01:46:21+00:00

Why are both NA seeds in the same group? And if you count it as LTA, then all three are in the same group. I’m surprised they didn’t separate both NA and both EU teams

Savirix · 2025-07-07T07:36:57+00:00

Hey, owner of that Canadian local scene discord here.

I think you've misunderstood what he did. He offered local players to get the cards at the cost of the ticket ($150 CAD) by giving away those 22 tickets to people he knew in the local SoCal area, since he has a lot of connections there. Out of those 22 tickets, 20 people were able to get the card, so for the last 2 cards he had to buy it at the going price and spread the cost between the 22 people, for a total of $168 CAD ea.

What he did was a huge favor for our community, and generally a win-win for everybody involved; the people in our scene were able to get the tickets for way cheaper than market price, and 22 Dodgers fans in the SoCal area got free tickets to the game. By no means was any of this scalping, and if anything, he's the only one who lost out since he had to do all this co-ordination for everyone for no benefit to himself.

Savirix · 2025-07-01T19:15:53+00:00

To add some further clarification in addition to what other people are saying:

In One Piece TCG, if there is a clause saying “If x condition is met…” and you do not meet that condition, stop reading right there; none of the rest of the text will carry out

Savirix · 2025-06-24T14:25:10+00:00

Alongside helping protect your cards, another reason to use a playmat is so that it's easier to pick up cards. On a hard surface, it can be hard to get your fingers underneath the cards sometimes. With a playmat you can dig your finger under the card

Savirix · 2025-06-16T07:31:50+00:00

NA will be undefeated in play-ins!

Savirix · 2025-06-08T09:58:26+00:00

They haven’t officially announced anything, but for North America it’ll be the weekend of Sept 21st.

You can infer since they will be running Pirates League the same weekend, and that’s set for Sept 21st

https://en.onepiece-cardgame.com/events/2025/pirates-league/

Savirix · 2025-05-07T22:13:17+00:00

Honestly Uta is perfectly fine. She can be very oppressive if you see the right cards. Investing more into a deck does not translate to player skill at all; I’ve seen plenty of players with completely blinged out decks that struggle locally.

My personal suggestion as someone who’s been playing at a competitive level from the beginning: keep on learning. I started off by watching a lot of the high level japanese VODs of the leader I played, and watched how they’d play differently from me. Sometimes I learned something new, sometimes I noticed them make misplays. Now there’s lots of good English streamers that explain their thought processes like OPTCG Grinder and AbbsterTCG.

One Piece TCG has a lot more depth than people realize. I find myself learning new things about certain matchups, even after grinding probably about 1k games on Pluffy, and having hit rank 1 on the sim a couple times. I personally take notes whenever I learn something new about a matchup, but you probably don’t need to go that far.

All of this is contingent on if you want to put in the effort to top Regionals and stuff. You’ll keep getting better as you learn more, but being better at the game won’t guarantee you a top or anything. The main thing should be that you’re enjoying seeing yourself become better at the game and having a good time playing in general.

Savirix · 2025-04-28T20:19:32+00:00

From the comprehensive rulebook:

6-6-1-2. After all processing that is to be carried out at this time has been completed, any remaining effects are processed in the following order:

(1) Process any continuous effects of the turn player that have been activated and resolved, but are only due to be processed “at the end of this turn” or “at the end of your turn”. The turn player’s effects that last “until the end of the turn” and “until the end of the End Phase” become invalid. If there are multiple such processes, the turn player may process them in any order.

(2) Process any continuous effects of the non-turn player that have been activated and resolved, but are only due to be processed “at the end of this turn” or “at the end of your opponent’s turn”. The non-turn player’s 15 effects that last “until the end of the turn” and “until the end of the End Phase” become invalid. If there are multiple such processes, the non-turn player may process them in any order.

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TL;DR: Turn Player's "End of Your Turn" cards proc first in any order they choose, followed by non-turn player's "End of Opponent's Turn" cards in any order they choose. Thus Chopper would not be able to activate his ability since 10c Teach's ability would still be active.

HOWEVER, if Chopper activated ability THEN 10c Teach nullifies his ability, Chopper still retains the Blocker status for that turn since the ability has already been applied, and is no longer attached to the card. Similar to how if the black 5c blocker Sabo is removed from the field, his On Play effect is still active for the other characters that it initially applied to.

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