The One Piece Card Game: One Year Review 

When they were doing Digimon they didn't have 5 other card games printing 😂 and Digimon isn't close to what optcg is sellimg

To the OP, I also play both digimon and one piece as they are incredibly similar in game mechanics and I love both dearly. I am concerned for digimons future as idk if Bandai will continue to support digimon as much as one piece because it doesnt match its sales despite still having a good player count and dedicated fan base. Really hope Bandai doesnt end up sacrificing one game to focus on the other, the choice is theirs but i hope they listen to the fans/customers.

Nostalgia wore off for a lot of people who got in to digimon. Many people were off and on when it came to characters they knew vs newest enterirs of the series

@@lifeunderthestarstvthat not the point . Point is Bandai isn’t fixing the scarcity for one piece

​@@AndrewBelmont- I wouldn't worry too much about the Digimon card game. It's still Bandai's second most popular card game right now. And it's currently the most lucrative branch of the franchise. They're way more likely to drop something like union arena, battle spirits and even dragon ball super if anything, recent news indicate that they have big plans for the Digimon card game. They're making a webcomic and plans to synchronize japanese and western releases by spring 2025.

Oh, even worse. At least Vanguard trial decks are not underprinted to the point that a starter deck common staple Is 45$

Facts man.

There is an online simulator thats good.

it does

@@applegoblinjeans I'll only play this on an official game.

​@@SparkZ009 You're definitely missing out by waiting for an official game. The simulator is automated.

@@SparkZ009 it's good for practice games and playing for free is great until bandai reprints cards.

Yes, the best part about Yamato is it's a yellow deck that doesn't need Katakuri.

(You still want to run katakuri)

Battle spirits saga is already 15 years old. It clearly has a decent following in Japan at least, so I see why they wouldn't drop that one. Union arena is more likely to get dropped imho because it's going to be much harder to sell a crossover card game

@@kanchomerocks12 Yeah, Union Area is going to be a hard sell because if you haven't seen the anime, you won't buy that product, which means you can't market all the cards to everyone. And if you want future support, good luck if that anime ends up not being popular.

Exactly

yeah, the Digimon card is too old and developed at this point so new players can't easily join. The Dragon Ball card game died and go rebooted so no one trusts it. Battle Spirits Saga is weird and has awful products and no real audience. However, the one piece card game is uniquely a great game. It's got an easy to understand meta as well as mechanics. it's got amazing product. And it's got a huge community, because of how One Piece as a franchise is doing atm. If you're looking for the Three Brothers deck I recommend looking for which leader you want to build around and buy the needed non starter deck cards ahead of time.

@@MonkeyFightTCG I be Building the black yellow Luffly looks easy to build

This is just not true though, the only expensive cards that you truly need are Borsalino,Kat, Queen and Yamato. You're completely tripping if you're comparing this games prices to YGO. It's not even close.

Great eruption, Hina, rebbeca, kuzan, etc.. Charlotte cracker, 7 drop big mom, Charlotte brulee, sanji, etc... 5 drop Captain kid, 4 drop law, magellan, Paulie, kaido, etc.. All these cards are around 10 or so dollars. Add them up and decks are still $300 without the most expensive staples.

Why do people talking about specific cards like there’s only one or two colors to build a deck with? There’s other colors to play and choose from. Just proves everyone is meta driven just to win. If people were around the release of each set, you would’ve been able to acquire play sets of all these cards. The fact is, people are late to the game when One Piece was always hype

Every color is expensive is why people don't just go to other colors. Plus the meta is very rough twords rogue decks. Buying at the beginning of a sets release is good advice, but it's hard to tell that to people just joining the game for the first time or just picking up card games as a hobby. I want the hype to grow and for that there needs to be more product.

@@MonkeyFightTCG Every color isn’t expensive though? It’s all based on the leader you decide to play and which cards best work for the deck

How do you think ygo is declining in quality

@@jonathancox-ll6zl Missprint became worthless because they are so common now. It's also pretty common to open a set with all cards being only EX out of the box. Desastrous set structure combined with the reprint philosophy. Just watch the videos on this channel Compared to the OCG the TCG is a joke

@@thomashalbgottschalk8461 the ocg is a testing ground and Konami prob makes a lot less money from the ocg so the tcg carry’s the game money wise and the set structure isn’t bad some people can’t handle spend money on a card game. Ok I’ll admit magic is terrible

Beacuse every secret lair is an objectively bad product

try asking your local game stores for a pre-order. it's not much, but its about the only thing you can do until bandai gets their act together.

@MonkeyFightTCG yeah, I'll be sitting there refreshing their online page like a maniac waiting to pre order as fast as possible at work on my phone then I guess 🤣

You have to go in person usually. But i understand how hard it can be to find time for that.

@@MonkeyFightTCG In my experience, they keep most of the product to themselves to scalp later. That was my experience, and yes, I know it's JUST my experience, but that one experience ruined the ENTIRE game for me. Haven't bought (not for lack of stock anyway) any cards since.

I'm a big fire emblem fan and it fit really well here. I'm glad someone recognized it!

I don't see Lorcana having longevity except in very niche fandom corners. It's quite uninspired.

There's multiple different oden leaders

we all do

Well look for finding local tournaments at local game stores and playing there. You'll also probably want a better deck. I recomend using a website like one piece meta to find a better list to learn from or base your own strategy off of. At least untill you learn more about how to build decks. If you want a larger collection without spending absurd amou ts money. I'd recomend either waiting for early sets to reprint or getting ahead and pre ordering sets that haven't released yet. Also remember you can buy individual cards through websites like tcgplayer or cardmarket. It's often cheaper than buying sealed product. I hope this advice helps!

@@MonkeyFightTCG This was amazing, thank you! I just bought the three captains deck and a booster box of awakening lol. I'm completely addicted. Will try to start playing multiple decks and see what Iike and then order singles as well! Thanks again! Keep posting videos on One Piece!

Pick one of those decks to build around and by a second one. Then look to see what other cards you'd need to upgrade them. You can also look for a local game store to attend tournaments. 11 and 13 luffy are the most competitve decks to go with. 13 is better but more expensive to fully build. There's an online simulator that's linked in the description you can use to test out decks.

This a very interesting point I'll have to look more into. Thanks for the information!

Yes. Both on the local and on the regional level

they have 0 clue how to run a game long term. their history shows this pretty clear. bandai gets hype then they run it into the ground

the same manga that take until issue 700 to get interesting ive heard

@@manleyfgc7981 disagree. Their arcs are all unique. Of course some are better than others.

The show gets good very early around arlong park.

That’s all of Bandai card games. They are huge on monetization. They had a number of other games that are crazy expensive and they have no balance after some a small amount of time.

@@MNtoCali Not true, Digimon is one of the cheapest TCGs out there, you can typically build at least one crazy good meta deck for around 60 bucks.

It's dropped quite a bit in sales from where it used to be. It's got a shrinking player base combined with shrinking sales.

@@MonkeyFightTCG Are you sure about that? The Digimon TCG had multiple 400+ player tournaments last month, the NA Finals even had over 900 players. That's more than any 2023 Digimon tournament had as far as I know.

I think he means that Bandai's way of handling the Digimon card game hasn't been the best. It stumbles a lot of the time in some way, either with balance issues or distribution issues. But I still don't think it's in as unhealthy of a position as the one piece card game currently is. Starter decks are currently still very affordable.

not to mention half of these people are just weebs. bandai has hype and thats it. these are same people that would buy all the universes beyond mtg shit because all it does is pander to a fan base

It's not the cost of entry it was a max rarity variant of a what was at the time a $100 deck. The our pose of.my statement wasn't to flex but to explain how insane the pricing has gotten for the game.

Everything if there's no reprints

@@MonkeyFightTCG Lol I guess thats true

Yeah Bandai needs to step up their game or they'll eventually drop the ball on this game too.

@@MonkeyFightTCG it's crazy how while on OP and DCG they've gone crazy with their meta and powercreep (at least they're calming down with the latter), with BSS they're so damn afraid of it that they keep releasing mediocre cards. At least set 3 was good and 4 so far looks decent. I just hope it's not too little too late by the time the Eva set comes out. Also I have 0 clue if union arena goes beyond dead on arrival here. I don't see any hype around it

Union arena might do okay, just from collectors. But I don't think it'll do anything as a competitive game.

lol

True

20000%

There are way more than that. Plus when a ton of cards in you deck are $10 a piece it adds up quickly to hundreds of dollars. Sakazuki, enel, and purple luffy are all $500 decks. If you take away the cards that are over $30 each they're still $300 decks. Not everyone is wealthy and they shouldn't have to be to play a card game.

​​@@MonkeyFightTCGYour math is definitely off if we take out Borsalino and assume you're running GE at 4 kuzan at 4 and hina at 4 all at 20 dollars a pop that's nowhere near 300+. Also what other cards?

4 Great eruption $64 4 Hina $50 3 kuzan $60 4 rebbeca $32 4 rob Lucci $16 3 borsalino $8 2 Sabo $20 4 brannew $8 2 kaido $20 So it's about $270. So $300 with shipping, tax, and the extra cards

I come from an era you make the best of what you got with what you can until you can win the good stuff and usually your alt art and expensive stuff you ain’t trying to wear out no .way. The box winning and prizes is the spillage and rewards of rearing up the tourneys and the regionals. If you want to ball out and play on that level with money than it’s should be up to you to be able to. I never knock the guy cause he had the money to just buy the “good cards “. My skill gone beat you out that expensive deck you bought so it’s all good. Thats MY mentality, that’s how I was taught in Yugioh too. I notice a lot of these “expensive cards” have a common version that you can win with. And best believe the card game balanced becuase you don’t see them promo decks winning cause it’s not rigged like that. People need to stop complaining and pays I seen the cost of flesh n blood n quickly said you know what what this my kinda game so I’m excited to see this game go up. Flesh and blood could be a great game but I ain’t heard nothing bout it outside being expensive. This is a solid one from the looks of it. Much better than spending money on booze and drugs.

While gameplay is subjective i was refering to the actual physical aspect of these games. Such as the decline of print quality in magic and yugioh. The intentionally bad set structure of magic and yugioh. And the awful tournament prizing of magic and yugioh.

@@MonkeyFightTCG ok the prizing is terrible but the set structure in ygo at least is not terrible but in magic that’s a different story

Alright have fun buying another premuim set for $300 a box where every card is upshifted to mythic

@@MonkeyFightTCG if this reply is about magic I agree that’s why I quit but if this is about ygo no set is even close to 300 not even a single meta staple is close to that

Cope

Well the cheapest version of katuri is $70 The cheapest version of borsalino is $40 The cheapest version of nami is $20 Etc.... Do you even live in reality? Horrible take

I'll allow it XD

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