Best One Piece Decks

The best One Piece decks to start with are Bandai's Starter Decks, each a ready-to-play 51-card deck built around one Leader, and the best one for you depends on whether you want to attack, control the game or sit in between. Bandai describes a Starter Deck as a set with everything you need to play under the official rules. The details below come from its English product pages, read on 2 November 2026.

What comes in a Starter Deck

Each Starter Deck below holds a constructed deck of 51 cards, which is the Leader plus the 50-card deck, along with 10 DON!! cards and a playsheet. What else is in the box depends on the product.

Bandai calls the Starter Deck EX an upgraded option next to the standard decks. Its pages say the cards can be used in official tournaments, and for the newest products they start 7 days after launch in your region.

The six July 2026 starter decks

Bandai released ST-31 to ST-36 together on 31 July 2026. Each product page opens with a one-line description of the deck, quoted below in Bandai's words, and that line is the quickest way to choose.

If you want to learn by attacking, start with ST-31 or ST-32. If you prefer a slower game where you answer your opponent, ST-33 or ST-34 fit better. Midrange sits between the two, and ST-35 and ST-36 are the picks if you do not yet know. Bandai's own words are aggro for ST-31, control for ST-33 and ST-34, and midrange for ST-35 and ST-36. It calls ST-32 battle-focused, and putting it with the attack decks is our grouping. None of this comes from tournament play.

Bigger and multi-deck starter products

• ST-30 Starter Deck EX Luffy & Ace (12 June 2026): a new red and green multicoloured Leader with 6000 power, plus a 3-card bonus pack.
• ST-29 Egghead (16 January 2026): an Egghead Arc Luffy Leader with 5000 power and 6 Life, which introduced the Rush: Character and Unblockable abilities.
• Set Sail Deck Set SD-01 (18 September 2026): two 51-card decks with 10 DON!! cards each, an OP-17 pack, a two-player playsheet, a guide book for each deck and 2 deck cases.
• Learn Together Deck Set (3 October 2025): three 51-card decks, three deck cases, three 5-card extra packs, a two-player playsheet and 3 guide books.

For two people learning together, a deck set saves buying twice. Bandai lists ST-37 and ST-38 for 18 and 19 December 2026, so a newer pair of decks is close.

Best decks right now: Bandai's Recommended Decks

Bandai also keeps a Recommended Decks page, with a one-line pitch for each Leader and a deck list to open. It gives no win rates, so read it as Bandai's suggestions and not a ranking. Its newest decks were added on 28 August 2026 with the OP-17 set.

These decks are built from booster cards, so treat them as a next step after a Starter Deck. Our guide to the best One Piece cards covers the banned list to check first.

Upgrading a Starter Deck

Bandai has paired starter decks with booster packs before. Its Recommended Decks page of 3 October 2025 gives the Shanks, Jewelry Bonney, Buggy, Monkey.D.Luffy, Marshall.D.Teach and Yamato decks the same line: power up your Starter Deck with Premium Boosters. Bandai's PRB-02 page adds that every pack in that Premium Booster holds a Super Rare card or better.

The packs inside ST-31 to ST-36 are OP-16 The Time of Battle, so that set is the natural next one to open for those decks. Bandai lists many other boosters you can add to a deck in the same way.

How to build a One Piece deck

The Comprehensive Rules fix the shape of every deck. You need one Leader card, a deck of exactly 50 cards and a DON!! deck of 10. The deck holds Character, Event and Stage cards only, each card must share a colour with your Leader, and you may include no more than 4 cards with the same card number.

• Pick a Leader and read its effect, because the deck exists to use it.
• Choose cards in the Leader's colours that work with that effect.
• Fill the deck to exactly 50 cards, with no more than 4 of any card number.
• Check each card against the banned list.
• Play it, then swap the cards that did not help.

Bandai's own advice is to add booster cards to a Starter Deck to strengthen it. Starting from a Starter Deck and swapping a few cards in the same colours is the simplest way into deck building. If you are new to the rules, read how to play One Piece Card Game first. Our One Piece starter decks page lists the decks we sell.

Questions

What is the best One Piece starter deck?

Bandai names none. Pick by style: ST-31 and ST-32 attack, ST-33 and ST-34 control, ST-35 and ST-36 sit in the middle.

How many cards are in a One Piece starter deck?

51 cards, which is the Leader and a 50-card deck, plus 10 DON!! cards and a playsheet.

Do starter decks include booster packs?

ST-31 to ST-36 each include one OP-16 pack. ST-21, ST-22, ST-29 and ST-30 include a 3-card bonus pack.

Can two people play with starter decks straight away?

Yes, with a deck each. The Set Sail Deck Set also includes a two-player playsheet and two decks.