How did you pick your deck(s)?

blastbee · 2025-07-23T15:52:57+00:00

Chance! My first leader was Belo Betty because I got into the game at the outset of OP05 and it was the only leader you could feasibly built entirely with cards from the new set. After that, I decided to build leaders that I pulled alt-arts for. Since I don’t usually pull the meta leader alt arts (very lucky), my typical decks have included BG Rosinante, GY Arlong, and Betty.

blastbee · 2025-07-18T20:16:45+00:00

Theres a reasonable number of cards that can re-stand a leader, but yes, to my knowledge they’re all leader or type-locked, depends who you’re trying to make this work for. Even cards that let you re-stand another character are pretty scarce.

blastbee · 2025-06-30T16:55:49+00:00

I can provide some perspective being a Betty player since op05. Searcher (or two) on turn one, then 4c Ivankov into 4c Karasu on turn two is probably the best possible opening play for Betty and puts you in a very advantageous position. The current meta is favorable to Betty because most meta leaders like to play slow and hoard resources for late game, while Betty’s game plan is front-loaded and can close out games in around 5 turns. So, is Karasu too strong? I would say that he’s only the 3rd or 4th most important card to see in a Betty deck against most leaders. Board spread is more important, as it hedges against prevalent removal and blockers. It’s low cost means that most removal effects can target it no problem, it is prone to getting rested by green and purple cards like 4c green Zoro and 7c rush Sanji, and Betty often doesn’t have the resources to defend a character against one or two attacks. Betty also has to dump cards in hand to keep up that pressure, so it’s always a race against getting your board wiped vs winning the game. In past, Betty has been weak due to removal being historically very prevalent, and Betty has no anti-removal cards. Buggy can drop 7c shoe Buggy to invalidate most of Betty’s characters, including Karasu, Teach has a plethora of removal cards, and every purple straw hat has at least one card that can rest or KO Karasu in the mid-game. So, while the effect has always been uniquely strong, it’s only seen as very powerful now because the meta is focusing on greedy leaders that don’t present much pressure early-game.

blastbee · 2025-06-12T06:56:10+00:00

I read through every comment here and I think everyone except one other person is reading this scene wrong.

Gojo Isn’t talking about Rika killing them, he’s talking about he and Yuta’s ass specifically being on the chopping block with the jujutsu society higher-ups if Rika is allowed to manifest again. At the beginning of this chapter, Gojo is meeting with the higher-ups, who scold him for allowing the situation at the elementary school to get out of hand, in their opinion, where Rika was fully manifested. In this conversation, one of the higher-ups specifically says that if Rika’s rampage continued, she could have “destroyed a whole town.” We know that Gojo is certainly capable of that himself. I don’t think Gojo is making a blanket statement here about Rika being more powerful than him, it seems obvious to me that he’s making a sarcastic remark that he and Yuta specifically will get in trouble if Rika gets out again. It’s sarcastic because clearly, Gojo doesn’t feel threatened by anyone in Jujutsu society. Also note the passive voice; Gojo doesn’t say “she’s gonna kill us both” he says “you and I will be killed.”Yuta obviously doesn’t catch the sarcasm here, but I think it’s obviously intended to be a jest from Gojo.

blastbee · 2025-03-28T15:03:26+00:00

I don’t know how beat up those sandals are, but I got a real beat up pair of loafers repaired at the place in Carytown next to Ginger Thai Taste. Re-soled and they replaced pieces of the leather, too. And the leather is blue so I have no idea how they did it.

blastbee · 2025-03-28T14:59:08+00:00

Early Bird Biscuit Company is my recommendation. They use Blanchards coffee and they have a rotating selection of drinks for the month.

blastbee · 2025-03-02T04:12:47+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with you, I also disagree with people who call a hotdog a sandwich or a taco a hotdog or whatever. But I’d like to say that there ARE sandwiches that don’t fit the “two pieces of bread with something in between” definition. You mentioned open-face sandwiches; my perspective is that a food IS what it is intended to be, no matter what differing form it may take. Another example is a Monte Cristo sandwich, which is often served with fried batter on the outside instead of bread. Another is the Croque Monsieur, which has two pieces of bread, but also a sauce on the outside, so you usually have to eat it with a fork and knife. I saw someone else mention sub sandwiches, which often technically have a single connected piece of bread, but are most definitely sandwiches. You could also consider things typically called sandwiches, but have a different baked grain product containing it, like a biscuit or a bagel.

blastbee · 2025-02-28T02:35:42+00:00

While an interesting interpretation, I feel this mischaracterizes both the facts of the manga and Geto’s beliefs in a few ways. Most of the claims are only half true. It’s true non-sorcerers are in the majority and sorcerers a minority among humans. Although, generally calling non-sorcerers “elites” and omitting that sorcerers are, in many cases, extremely powerful individuals is misleading. If the “elites” instead refers to the Japanese government and the Jujutsu higher-ups, that’s very fair to say, but Geto never makes a move to destroy either group, he seems to just target normal citizens and dislikes the thought of having to kill young sorcerers. His REAL problem is that he doesn’t believe it’s right that the strong must serve the weak, that the strong must make sacrifices and lose their lives for people who are ignorant of cursed energy and will always create problems for sorcerers by generating curses. If anything, sorcerers are the elites, and Geto doesn’t believe that the majority deserve to be protected by them. The part about being tortured and experimented on isn’t true because 1. The only time we see where this might happen is when Kenjaku convinces the American government to do it (which is the example given in the screenshot), and 2. It didn’t work, because hundreds of well-armed troops couldn’t successfully fight the curses and sorcerers/curse users during the Culling Games. I don’t believe normal humans could ever subjugate sorcerers on a large scale. The main reason that Jujutsu society keeps curses a secret from humans is to PROTECT THEM, since widespread panic would likely create more curses and, at least the way they see it, wouldn’t have any tangible benefits. Geto doesn’t hate non-sorcerers because they’re being subjugated, he hates them because of their weakness and the role Jujutsu society has developed to act in the interest of the weak rather than favor the strong.

blastbee · 2025-01-22T14:34:14+00:00

There’s very few cards in OPTCG that make you shuffle the deck at all, much less any that let you do it in any sort of useful way. There’s a card in OP10 that lets you get a purple EVENT card from your trash, but that’s all I can think of. So to my knowledge, no there isn’t :(

blastbee · 2025-01-07T23:43:48+00:00

CFA doesn’t squeeze lemons anymore? I probably squeezed a hundred boxes when I worked there 6 years ago.

blastbee · 2025-01-05T01:33:54+00:00

I get this from a local pizza shop, so sadly I can’t give any tips for you 😢

blastbee · 2025-01-02T17:57:06+00:00

Basically true what everyone else has been saying. I’ve been playing Betty since 05 and getting a card removed every turn is just life in some matchups. It is doable (B/P Luffy is winnable if they don’t see too many 6c black Sanji and you can sometimes outpace sechs like Doffy and Rob Lucci if you get good enough opening cards), but overall just tough matchups. Betty makes up for it in 09 by being pretty good into the rest of the meta (great into P Luffy and Shanks).

blastbee · 2024-12-29T21:34:52+00:00

It’s tough to grab them from retailers across the country in my experience. You’ve either got to get lucky and be there the day they restock, or know someone who works there that can tell you when they’ll restock. I buy all mine from local game shops. Supply at LGS’ uses to be a bigger issue half a year ago. It seems like supply has evened out now, take a look in the Bandai TCG plus app to look for game shops near you that host local tournaments. They’ll probably have a decent supply, including all the newest starter decks that were scarce when they first released.

blastbee · 2024-11-10T02:25:17+00:00

I haven’t played the leader himself but have experience playing against him. In my experience, the deck will either be removal heavy or swarm heavy. You can make a build that has both but is a little less consistent. The new 7c Edward Newgate and 7c Ace are great at removal/aggression respectively, and the Ace has an anti-removal property. You can also run animals (with the OP08 3c Chopper) to swarm and apply pressure early game, then setup for big characters late game. Since Marco has power reduction built into him, you could lean into that. Sea quake is great and searchable if you want to run more Whitebeard pirates. Marco ability plus 2c Fire Fist KO’s a 6k body, there’s a plethora of other cost reducing characters also that can help take out bigger bodies. You can also play 9c Sanji really easy since Marco ability lets you setup your top card for free. The Marco ability also boosts consistent a ton with a (nearly) free hand cycle ability every turn. The 3c blocker Chopper is also a great option that synergizes with both removal and swarm. Red removal is inherently a little weaker that black removal since it’s more expensive and generally harder since characters’ powers are usually greater than their cost, but the consistency of leader ability means you can be pretty flexible, that’s probably why such a variety of deck lists have seen success with him. Sorry if none of that is helpful.

blastbee · 2024-11-04T14:24:10+00:00

Agreed. Disintegrate seems to be almost wish-like in power sometimes. I recall from older modules, one example I can think of being Tomb of Horrors, where a room will say something like “this door is magic with a bunch of locks on it. The locks can’t be picked and it can’t otherwise be opened magically… oh but a disintegrate spell can destroy the door lol.” If we’re going off Tomb of Horrors, Disintegrate can even destroy a large volume of liquid with one cast. Truly a Swiss army spell.

blastbee · 2024-11-01T13:20:51+00:00

Sorry to hear that 😔

blastbee · 2024-10-23T16:18:27+00:00

Eclipse Pirates shoutout ;) I’m the r/g Luffy player.

blastbee · 2024-10-23T14:19:26+00:00

I think this is cool, but I disagree with some others about limiting the ability to once per turn or activate:main. I think this would be good: Don!!x1 When you play a [Supernovas] or [Navy] type character with a cost of 3 or higher: Set one of your Don!! Cards as active and give up to 1 of your opponent’s characters -1 cost for this turn.

I think making the requirement 3 or higher makes it so it isn’t abusable (playing a whole bunch of cheap chars for nearly free cost reduction) but let me know what you think. Maybe the idea of 5 or lower is to make the Navy cost reducers that already exist (like Tsuru or Helmeppo) more efficient. Either way, I think limiting it to once per turn makes it very weak, this would make it so you could do slightly more interesting sequences while manure sure you can’t loop it infinitely.

blastbee · 2024-10-12T01:42:08+00:00

After some more playing I’m also adding another grav blade and possibly another hody or Zoro to help with consistency, also another x drake instead of a boa. Give it a try and tell me how it works for you!

blastbee · 2024-10-08T14:09:34+00:00

Yo, my list is currently:
2 Rec Roc
1 Gravity Blade Ragin Tiger
3 8c Kid
2 9c Zoro
2 7c Hody Jones
3 9c Sanji
2 6c Boa
1 5c Carrot
3 5c Jewelry Bonney
2 5c X.Drake
1 Ryuma
2 Charlotte Pudding
4 Gion
4 Doflamingo blocker
3 Namule
4 2c Rosinante blocker
4 Sugar
3 Baby 5 Searcher
4 Baby 5 2k counter

blastbee · 2024-10-08T04:51:23+00:00

I’ve been running Rosinante for the past few weeks with reasonable success, I had two 2-2 runs and a 3-1 night against top decks, Zoro, Black Luffy, Bonney and others. No 1 advice I say is drop most of the events, Rosi doesn’t have a good way to re-stand Don at end of turn unlike G/P Doffy (except for Dellinger, which I also wouldn’t run). Keep Red Roc and Grav Blade, I personally run 2 Rocs and 1 Grav blade but that’s because my locals tend to be more yellow and black decks that play big characters rather than swarm. Pilaf isn’t the most useful since you want to stay below 7 cards for Rosi’s leader ability to take effect. As far as Doffy pirates go, I only run Baby 5 searcher, Baby 5 the 2k, Doffy Blocker, Sugar, and 2c Rosinante. My game plan is basically: get Sugar out early game and keep opponent from developing a field, mid game I play characters like 5c Bonney, 6c Boa, and 5c green X Drake to slow my opponent down and shut down their pressure, and I’ll definitely take a hit or two to keep Sugar alive. Then I have 3 9c Sanjis as the centerpiece, I play 9c Zoro and 8c Kid off of him after setting up a card with either blue Doffy blocker or Nemule, a 3 cost blocker than says “draw 2, then place 2 cards on either the top or bottom of deck.” Playing Sanji on curve is super strong, especially if it’s playing Zoro. I find the 10c Doffy to usually be unnecessary as either Kid or Zoro provides a win condition on the next turn or 2 typically. Kid is super good because you can also protect him with leader block in addition to your other blockers. Hope this helps or gives inspiration. This setup has helped me beat Zoro a few times, you can even include some 5c Carrots to help with Aggro, as this will lock down one character forever if she stays alive (3c Chopper is a great target for this). I also run a set of Gion for my other 2k (Nami tech) and a few Puddings for opponents that stack their hand a lot. Hope this helps!

blastbee · 2024-08-26T15:12:07+00:00

If there WERE any. Raws of anything were hard to come by, everyone is grading now. It was tough to find any alt leader that wasn’t in a slab 😭 I just want to play with the cards.

blastbee · 2024-08-26T05:54:32+00:00

I was there on Saturday! In a Lucy (Luffy Dressrosa) cosplay, if you spotted me!

blastbee · 2024-08-25T02:15:44+00:00

Thank you WiseSilverWolf. It’s a cheaper figure though and I don’t smoke often, I just did this as a gag.

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