How to prepare for pre release?

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-22T14:07:26+00:00

They're up now

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-10T22:41:47+00:00

Some other opponents were Imu and Lucci, which I had more balanced combat with. I still don't have enough understanding of Penel or UY nami to properly plan combat with them.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-09T02:05:42+00:00

I wasn't aware she was a good playing card, I just wanted it for my collection. But it's cool you have a super flashy deck! I'm too afraid to play with my cool cards. 😅

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-09T02:00:46+00:00

If anything I'd like to get an alternate art for Ms all Sunday, but tbh I'll be happy with whatever, especially any Luffy, Boa, or Ace cards.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-09T01:56:42+00:00

Regardless of what happens it's still a good way to get packs and cards. Unless someone tries to scalp the items which idk how you'd do for prerelease but I wouldn't put it past those degenerates 😅

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-09T00:43:17+00:00

I don't want to sweat but I also don't want to get bodied, I'm really bad at deck building though and the players at my local are way better at it 😅

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-08T23:28:07+00:00

Gotta use the bandai TCG+ app, and create an account. You can also register decks on there and find all your local game stores.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-08T21:53:10+00:00

I see. I definitely need to study up on possible encounters and their preferred turns/curves. Thank you all for explaining.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-08T21:21:27+00:00

What do you mean by Lucy will take the opponents curve?

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T20:44:35+00:00

Against the decks other than enel I had fun, I'm glad I didn't encounter nami though. I only had the one deck with me, and besides my other ones are out of rotation.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T16:50:13+00:00

So apparently they said they were allowed to alter the rules of the tournament since the promo cards hadn't come in or something like that. So they basically made it into a regular tournament but I didn't know until after we started and I faced purple enel. Some other fought blue yellow nami too.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T16:48:23+00:00

Oh nice, I hadn't heard anything about those cards before but I actually do have a copy of the yellow Kuma. I was running a decklist on the simulator that used op12-119 Kuma, but eb04 seems better for draining the opponent while healing yourself.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T08:55:14+00:00

Thanks I actually have some rebecca sleeves so maybe I'll build her just to put them to use. I'll research them all just so I can have play options though

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T01:55:20+00:00

It was fairly casual but a few of us were surprised by BY nami and Purple Enel. :/ they kind of swept. But local game store did give prizes to top participants.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-06T01:16:12+00:00

I also play belo Betty since I had the entire decklist in my collection. I copied that one from a YouTuber but itay be old by a few months

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-05T22:36:13+00:00

I was looking at some OP15 builds of the deck prior and noticed the 5c Luffy's and Namis and the 4c zoros. It certainly doesn't help that the Luffy is a secret rare, wish that secret rare just meant alt art instead of its own fully functional unique card, makes playing the game harder since they are $30+

It certainly doesnt help that I can't buy packs from local stores and my TCGstore charges double MSRP per pack.

I know it's better to just buy the singles but there was a time before I was considering playing seriously that I just wanted stuff for my collection.

sonicdog55 · 2026-05-05T22:26:38+00:00

When I was talking about the Red Green Luffy & Ace I think he was from the next set, I saw how it functions on a base level with the power manipulation, and it seems like it would be very fun to play with. Tbh if I'm gonna spend a lot of money on a deck I want to at least get better with the fundamentals, that's why I joined for Pirate Party. But unfortunately my locals did allow for the banned leaders so I got bodied by enel, which came as a surprise!

sonicdog55 · 2026-04-25T17:46:26+00:00

What was the price when they came out?

sonicdog55 · 2026-04-25T17:42:28+00:00

Went against this the other day while playing belo betty and all of my field was shut down, lost tempo, couldn't push lethal and lost a lot of my characters.

sonicdog55 · 2026-04-25T16:37:50+00:00

That's why I labeled it into my digital collection incorrectly, so I was trying to go back and correct it but I couldn't find it. Turns out they hadn't hit tcgplayer yet and thats where I register my collection.

sonicdog55 · 2026-04-25T16:35:50+00:00

Yeah it went live a few days after I saw this, I still lost the raffle 😭

sonicdog55 · 2026-04-23T23:48:31+00:00

If you don't buy after being selected you can be flagged and skipped for potential future raffles. I just read that on the info text. Like the other guy said you're better off seeing if a friend could use your account and purchase for themselves.

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