Really good stuff here. Sanji being an addition to this deck was an immediate yes after the card's initial teaser. Unsure how I feel about there being no Gedatsu cards in this deck. The early game board removal with the counter potential warrants its inclusion (Unless 3 life kid leader somehow makes it into the meta lol). The Gravity Blade Raging Tiger seems to be a really awkward inclusion into the deck. Ideally you'd combo it with a 2 or less so that you can still use leader ability that turn so that leaves you with Kaya, Hiyori, Pudding, or Duval. With 3 of those cards being 2k counters in-hand (with awkward ratios themselves), Duval is probably your best option, but even then his inclusion is a bit weak since he only provides a weaker version of the onPlay effect your flamingo and Drake blockers already provide.. Not bad, but there's probably better cards fighting for a spot in the deck than Gravity Blade and Duval especially since 7 is a rather expensive price to pay to not develop a decent body on the board that turn. I think what made having 4 of Gum-Gum Red Roc so useful was that you could combo it with your Brulee, Hancock, and Doflamingo blockers (Ideally 12 count in total) for a really consistent & defensive turn and still have a don for leader ability. If your hand got clogged up with them, you'd play a Kaya to get rid of 2 of them in your hand in replacement of 2 likely much better cards. This would leave you with 9 remaining don making 8c katakuri a solid drop or any other combination to the total 8 like 2 sanjis, drake/gedatsu + any of your 3c blockers, etc... really flexible honestly if your ratios are right 9c Sanji being at 3 seems appropriate. Might be better potentially at 2 since his inclusion is mostly there for allowing you to thin out your hand in the situation that you have too many boss monsters in your hand than you can get rid of, making it actually possible to use the leader's ability that turn. The other monsters also generally have stronger onPlay effects so striking that nice balance of about 10-12 boss monsters total in your deck would be ideal. Hiyori as a 2k counter sounds really really good. Though if you just maximize that amount of trigger blockers in your deck, you'd have 12 (16 if you're counting bege trigger effect as a pseudo blocker) so with you may already be consistently hitting your triggers regardless. Might be somewhat risky to actually use her onPlay and lose the 2k inhand, but ig you can always just katakuri the card back to the top of the life instead of one of your trigger blockers if bad rng happens Pudding... sounds really good in theory, but I feel like I'd have to see it to really be sold on the tech. If it gets actually used less than 5% of the time then that's probably a sign to cut it.
How I play Queen is to establish blockers early game, take life and control board (while countering to reduce hand size) during mid and drop big boys in the end game. The reason i have gravity blade is coz of a wide board during mid. Thanks alots for the comment! It really makes me want to revisit my queen deck and update it! Especially OP06.5 is out!
