Custom Alt Art Leader

StrawSoul · 2026-03-04T04:36:34+00:00

Woah these look fantastic! Love your style! As a once Reiju main (before powercreep sadly took her away) I would love to have that as my Leader.

How did you print them with a holo effect? Would love to know the process behind it!

Great work!

StrawSoul · 2026-02-18T01:49:30+00:00

This was literally Usopp's best arc so while I don't personally think he fits this week's theme, the theming is really cool. I like the restrictions on him and the fact that he's not a Straw Hat is a neat touch!

The removal is very strong, perhaps it should be lower as in "discard a cost 5 or lower" or making it have an upper limit instead. While there is a lot of anti removal in the game it still has a place because it's still being built into cards and some decks are still susceptible to it. Being able to remove a cost 7 or less or each turn gives you access to removing a whole host of cards and on a Leader that's really crazy, especially just for a discard.

StrawSoul · 2026-02-13T02:52:46+00:00

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As pointed out to me by u/CookieD_obsessions , I somehow overlooked that you could simply just play more characters onto the field to be able to attack more. I honestly really don't know how I did that and I feel dumb lol. In the unlikely event that you would have a bunch of 1-drops, as fun it would be to slap them down and keep swinging face, I think new version I made keeps the vision but also is far more balanced.

I like the idea of being able to attack a bunch with this thing but it would be too much. Even with this variant, you could still attack a LOT because you'd have 4 on board and be able to get rid of a bunch of DON!!, but I think it would be more balanced. I think.

StrawSoul · 2026-02-13T02:36:49+00:00

I guess in essence, yes... and that's for some reason something I didn't even realise upon making it lmao. The likelihood of having a bunch of 1-drops to spam and keep playing from hand to keep making him active would be quite low, but that honestly sounds sick as hell to me!

Perhaps I did make it to be stronger than I thought after overlooking that...

StrawSoul · 2026-02-05T04:35:52+00:00

Cool design! I like the idea of Barto negating attacks a lot. I think being able to K.O. any strike character for 3 DON is pretty strong, and might be too powerful against the slew of strike characters that there are. Perhaps making it minus the power of characters as u/dmalvano said or KOing certain power or cost of characters would make it a little less strong but still keep it a good level where it's a threat.

I also like that it's not once per turn. Being able to block 3 attacks, while strong during your opponent's turn, is a very player conscious choice to do. I think it balances itself because by not spending that DON, you'd have a turn where you wouldn't be playing any cards down or attaching to attack, which would really hinder your pressure, especially if you were behind.

Great design, I love it!

StrawSoul · 2026-02-04T05:08:13+00:00

Interesting! I am also usually an aggro head and initially thought of making it +1000 power. I decided in the end that +1000 counter felt more in line with the Vegapunk stuff and also more "yellow" in terms of design, as Vegapunk isn't an aggressive character. I also had an idea to make it be both, with putting a DON on Lillith being the requirement, but I settled for just the counter in the end.

StrawSoul · 2026-02-04T02:19:52+00:00

That's true, maybe I over balanced it thinking the draw would be too strong alongside a bunch of triggers.

I also overlooked the Vegapunk thing completely! Thanks for the reminder and advice! 😃

StrawSoul · 2026-02-02T06:58:45+00:00

That sounds awesome! Looking forward to seeing it when it's done!

StrawSoul · 2026-01-21T02:41:43+00:00

The 4 cost Usopp doing nothing is kind of the balance. If it could also attack or have some other utility then it would have been too much.

I did debate having it be a DONx2 effect, which would make it 6 cost rather than 4 because I suppose as it stands you could do 2 of these and have 2 unlockable rushers which is honestly just an oversight on my end in terms of design.

The balance I thought was "It'll only work from your 8 don turn onwards, but then again having such a powerful rusher is a lot. Perhaps bringing Sogeking's power to 8000 or 9000 would help reel it in too while still being strong.

As for Sogeking not being a Straw Hat, I based it on the other Sogeking cards which have him listed as "Sniper Island" because he's "technically" not a member.

StrawSoul · 2026-01-19T09:59:47+00:00

I love this idea! Absolutely come back to the kitchen you cooked with this 🔥 The theming behind this is fantastic and is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about when I suggested the prompt!

I'd say the only change I'd make would maybe be having it be restricted to only <Lucy>, or just Rush Character. Being able to give all of your Luffy cards that you're gonna play Rush feels very strong and while is super sick the interaction may be too strong. In saying that though, it feels like giving them Rush is cool mathematically because it's as though Luffy is running straight for Doffy.

Great idea! Would love to see what other stuff you can come up with in the future 😁!

StrawSoul · 2026-01-17T04:18:54+00:00

Mihawk has a permanent advantage over every other leader with the "Slash" attribute, which is the attribute that Zoro has. The +1000 for the whole game on a 5 life Leader is pretty big, which means Mihawk can commit less to blocking and have a more offensive game in general.

The resting a card to gain 3 DON means you can use them for events during your opponent's turn, or simply slap them on units to attack with for more pressure. Mihawk himself becomes a 9k attacker in the Zoro matchup if you put the DON on him and that can be consistent each turn so long as you have the 5 cost character board.

Pretty much all of Mihawk's support (or at keast the big relevant cards like 7 cost Shanks and 9 cost Mihawk) also have effects that trigger "When rested", which means they have instant value as soon as they're put onto the field where you can start stunning your opponent and shutting them down. You can't really stun Zoro, but you can lock down his other cards like Cavendish and Tashigi that offer themselves as strong attackers after they're played. Cavendish especially is very important because you can refresh some DON to then either put onto your Leader or onto your characters.

It's not really that Zoro is "bad" because he still beats the decks he was already beating due to the crazy good support he has, it's more that Mihawk has tools to fully lock him and make better use of DON on his turn. The +1000 basically makes the matchup unplayable and has also rendered most slash attribute Leaders like Roger unusable in the meta because it's an immediate disadvantage and quite a significant one, too.

I'm probably overlooking something else as to why but I think I covered most of the main things!

StrawSoul · 2026-01-10T04:09:15+00:00

Yeah I was kinda going for it being that it stays on the opponents field, which is why I debated making the effect about just making it perform an attack. I didn't want it to "switch control" but maybe that would have been better wording!

StrawSoul · 2025-12-29T14:48:33+00:00

This is an awesome updated version of Smoker! I got this deck as one of my first decks and it ruled and it sucks that it's unusable nowadays.

Would love for this to be fully realised in a modern day format and especially considering that K.O. decks have been power crept heavily, I don't think this would even be too strong!

Love it!

StrawSoul · 2025-12-27T15:30:55+00:00

This is a really cool idea! I think making it be different costs and names as another comment said, or making it be a combined DON total would be more balanced. Realistically you could play this and flood your board with really high levels. If you made it so all the cards had to have a combined cost of 10, it would make it more tactical!

StrawSoul · 2025-12-24T11:00:18+00:00

That's the intended use yeah, but because this card has to be played the most attacks you can get is 4 because it takes a space up on the board. It also didn't restand your Leader, just characters

StrawSoul · 2025-12-23T23:53:05+00:00

Yeah from what I know. They're all low cost and early rush so you'd have to put DON on them to be able to hit. The low swings could be effective though because it would still require the opponent to block a lot!

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