Good day, nakamas!
I am Jude Macaranas of Team Asiong from the Philippines. I won the Flagship Serial Shanks during the 1st week of September and won again for 3 consecutive days during the last week of September using [Purple] Luffy.
I really enjoy playing OPCG because I am able to play competitively against my close friends especially on this current meta.
I prioritize going first on every match-up and I always use my leader's effect on my turn 2 and turn 3 so I can set-up big body on my board like Urashima and Kaido 9-cost [ST04-003]. My main strategy is to delay the game phase of the opponent using Magellan's effect while getting DON!!! advantage using the effect of my leader and Kid 5-cost [OP05-074].
Since I build my deck to go first, I mostly mull for Scratchmen Apoo [OP01-103] or Page One [ST04-012] and a good follow-up for it such as Urashima, Paulie or Magellan if I'm playing against [Blue/Black] Sakazuki, [Yellow] Katakuri or [Yellow] Enel.
Matchups in Flagship
September 9, 2023 [ 32 Players ]
Forge Hobby Place – Flagship – Serial Shanks
Round 1 – [Yellow] Katakuri – WIN
Round 2 – [Green/Black] Issho – WIN
Round 3 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 4 – [Black/Blue] Sakazuki – WIN
Round 5 – [Yellow] Katakuri – WIN
September 23, 2023 [ 32 Players ]
GamersShop GS – Flagship – Serial Shanks
Round 1 – [Yellow] Katakuri – WIN
Round 2 – [Yellow] Enel – WIN
Round 3 – [Yellow] Enel – WIN
Round 4 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 5 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
September 24, 2023 [ 32 Players ]
Roll Play Game Lounge – Flagship – Serial Shanks
Round 1 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 2 – [Red/Green] Law – WIN
Round 3 – [Red/Green] Law – WIN
Round 4 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 5 – [Yellow] Katakuri – WIN
September 25, 2023 [ 32 Players ]
PopCulture Community – Flagship – Serial Shanks
Round 1 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 2 – [Blue/Yellow] Queen – WIN
Round 3 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 4 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
Round 5 – [Purple] Luffy – WIN
My hardest match-up would be [Red] Zoro because I don't play Kid 7-cost [ST10-013] or Uta 4-cost blocker [ST05-004] to lessen the opponent's aggression. And I think my easiest match-up would be [Yellow] Katakuri and [Yellow] Enel since I specifically built my deck to counter it. I prioritize playing Magellan because several of the locals that I'm playing with have tons of [Purple] Luffy, [Blue-Black] Sakazuki, [Yellow] Enel, and [Yellow] Katakuri, and Magellan puts a decent pressure against them.
I mostly counter other decks with the help of Magellan. It interrupts a lot of decks and is very useful during mirror matches.
When against Sakazuki, always play 2 characters like on your turn 2, Play Ulti [ST04-002] and use it's effect to play Page One [ST04-012] if you can. On your 3rd turn, Prioritize playing Paulie over Magellan even if there's nothing to K.O, you just need the +1 DON!!! so on your 4th turn you can play 2 characters with 5-cost. Protect all your characters from attacks as much as you can.
Against mirror matches of [Purple] Luffy, Always choose to go first so you can play Urashima on your 3rd turn and play Kaido 9-cost [ST04-003] on your 4th turn. With that board state, you have the upperhand on the game.
And against Enel or Katakuri, I still choose to go first so when I play Magellan on my 3rd or 4th turn, their DONS!!! will become odd numbers. In this match-up, Magellan is a God card. Seeing Magellan on your first five handcards can guarantee you the win.
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I managed to improve my skills and win a lot of flagship with the help of my friends that's why I would like to thank Team Union Armado for deck building knowlegde, to Team Asiong for late night and bloody practice, to Gerald Mercado for supporting me and providing what I need. I would also like to thank Emmanuel Lazarte for introducing me to this awesome game and for his support and practice assistances.
How do you play against bello betty? I am losing against that leader a lot.
On your turn 2, do not attack if your opponent played a searcher on his turn 1.
This is because if it's a trigger character in Life, you will receive multiple attacks next turn. What you need to do first is control the board state before attacking the Life. If you already have board control, you can now attack on Life once or twice. Do not rush the game. Playing against Belo Betty needs a lot of patience.
establish board before attacking. always have an answer for those low cost characters. (paulie, kaido 9)
What abaut using 7cost Kid, could be good or its not neccesary???
and well, i read you dont use kid and uta, but what about using them, could be good? is there space?
Kid 7 is also good but the downside is it heavily relies on Kid 5.
For me, Kid 7 is just a better option if your leader's original attack is 6000 just like Red-Purple Luffy.
Also, if you are going first against a mirror match, and your opponent played Magellan on his turn 2, Kid 7 will just be a bricky card on your hand because you only have 5 Dons!!!.
In this scenario, you can still play Paulie without effect.
well, kid cost 7 could become a bricki card some times, but at same could become a good option to save from atacks, i love this list, but i want to try kid in this deck, but i dont find space to use it :(((
if your locals are full of zoro players, go kid 7 instead of magellan.
There are probably a lot of Luffy and Enel, maybe some Law, from there on out I don't see that much Zoro, so Kid of 7 should I leave him out? I still want to build two-color Luffy But here is limited white beard and Franky's event, so I don't know how to build my list.
What happens if you're forced to go second? What's the usual line of play then?
how is your matchup against R/G Law btw? I would like to know how you prevent them from spamming 5 bodies and cheating out a 5 cost.
how is your matchup against R/G Law btw? I would like to know how you prevent them from spamming 5 bodies and cheating out a 5 cost.