OP-17 Luffy Deck List: Best Early Build & How to Play Black Luffy

Monkey.D.Luffy OP17-079 gives black a very different kind of deck in One Piece Card Game OP-17: The World’s Strongest Warriors. Instead of relying almost entirely on removal, Black Luffy builds a board of inexpensive Straw Hat and Elbaph Characters, turns on powerful effects by establishing Characters with costs of 12 or more, and pressures opponents with efficient attacks before OP17-093 Luffy comes down as a finisher.

There is no tournament-proven best OP-17 Luffy deck yet, so this is an early Thornberry Collectibles build based on the strongest interactions we have seen in current testing. The core looks promising, but several ratios should continue to evolve once OP-17 tournament results start coming in.

What Is the Best Early One Piece TCG OP-17 Black Luffy Deck?

OP-17 Black Luffy is an aggressive board-building deck that uses high-cost Elbaph Characters to activate its cheap Straw Hat crew. Gerd, Jaguar.D.Saul, and Loki help satisfy Luffy’s 12-cost condition, while Usopp, Sanji, Brook, Robin, and other inexpensive Characters provide searching, hand pressure, utility, and repeated attacks. OP17-093 Monkey.D.Luffy gives the deck a powerful late-game payoff with immediate pressure and additional value from the trash.

OP-17 Black Luffy Deck List

This version favors consistent board development and pressure rather than loading Black Luffy with a heavy removal package. The goal is to make Luffy’s engine work first, then use black’s interaction when it helps advance the game plan.

How Does Monkey.D.Luffy OP17-079 Work?

This OP-17 Black Luffy Deck List wants to establish a Character with a cost of 12 or more, then use that condition to unlock the rest of the deck.

Gerd, Jaguar.D.Saul, and Loki help get the engine online, while cheap Straw Hat Characters provide searching, hand pressure, utility, and repeated attacks. Once the board is established, OP17-093 Monkey.D.Luffy gives the deck an immediate late-game threat.

The basic plan is simple: build the board, establish a high-cost Character, pressure with your cheap Straw Hats, then finish with Luffy.

Gerd and Jaguar.D.Saul Turn the Deck On

We are starting with four Gerd and four Jaguar.D.Saul because both help Black Luffy establish the high-cost Characters the deck needs.

Gerd provides card filtering and works with the trash, while Saul helps find Elbaph cards. Once they satisfy Luffy's cost condition, the rest of the board becomes much more dangerous.

These are two of the cards we want to see early and often.

The Cheap Straw Hats Do the Dirty Work

Black Luffy gets a lot of mileage out of inexpensive Characters.

Usopp searches, Sanji fixes the hand, Nico Robin helps manipulate costs, and Brook pressures the opponent's hand. Zoro gives the deck another flexible attacker or counter depending on what the game needs.

The big Characters turn the engine on, but these smaller bodies are often what actually drain the opponent's resources.

OP17-093 Monkey.D.Luffy Is the Finisher

OP17-093 Luffy gives the deck exactly what it wants after building a wide board: immediate pressure and more value.

Once the cost condition is active, Luffy can attack right away while bringing another cheap Character back into the action. Brook can attack the opponent's hand, Usopp can search, and Robin can help set up another interaction.

That combination of pressure and board development makes Luffy an easy four-of in our early build.

The Flex Slots We’re Testing

The core of Black Luffy looks fairly clear. The final few slots do not.

We are starting with 2 Franky, 2 Pirates Docking Six, 2 Rodo, and 2 Tony Tony.Chopper.

Franky gives us another answer to important low-cost Characters, especially if Black Luffy mirrors become common. Pirates Docking Six provides recursion without forcing us to build the entire deck around it.

The 2/2 Rodo and Chopper split gives us access to both cards while we see which role matters more in actual games.

These are the first ratios we would revisit once OP-17 tournament results arrive.

Is OP-17 Black Luffy Good?

Black Luffy has one of the more cohesive early strategies among the new OP-17 Leaders.

It can search, filter cards, pressure the opponent's hand, build a wide board, create Blockers, and finish games with OP17-093 Luffy. The biggest unanswered question is not whether the engine works, but which supporting cards deserve the final few slots.

That makes it a strong deck to start testing now, even if the optimal 50 cards are still a work in progress.

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