EB02 Reveals - EVERYTHING is Searchable Now!? - Huge Meta Shift for the One Piece TCG

[@sushilpatel1365]

Can’t wait to play these in my rainbow Luffy deck

[@WillofDDT]

Hahah, run 24 search events and find whatever you want 💀

[@TheFrostHydra]

Finally, the only card in the game that can search 10c Kuzan

[@WillofDDT]

Haha, at laaaaast!

[@Yehshua73]

Just wait until Blue Yellow Queen finds every high cost that they need

[@WillofDDT]

Oh mannnnn, Queen games are so toxic LOL, finding that top end consistently is gonna be nasty

[@fallinghope7]

red now being able to search Rodger for the foreseeable future is now something we all have to play around. BY luffy drooling being able to find hyper constancy with his morias meaning hes not going away anytime soon. Very High win rate decks in any TCG are always defined by two things "Cheating Mana or resources Or Search Consistency"

[@WillofDDT]

Hard agree - hyper consistency is what I hated about YuGiOh, and a healthy amount of inconsistency makes a card game way more fun and conducive to skill expression imo. Sad to see this being introduced to One Piece... But we'll see what happens I suppose

[@RussellSpinksII]

Yugioh is more of one card combos, not hyper consistency cause you can straight brick, but it is those one card combos that hurt. For OP the tiger might not be too bad since it’s a 10c, but playing around 8c are gonna be pretty norm for a bit

[@milkshrekpasta]

I would appreciate it if you could do a bp luffy deck profile! I'm new to the game

[@WillofDDT]

Thanks for watching and for the suggestion! I'll try to get a B/P Luffy profile up soon, stay tuned 👍 And welcome to the game my friend! One Piece is easily my favorite card game and the best community I've encountered playing TCG's

[@KuisineMS]

If my op wants to pay 2c to search a gecko im cool with that

[@nico_mezare]

The cards look amazing. Hopefully they add some restrictions in the effect.

[@WillofDDT]

Hard agree on both points! 😆

[@Bojima222]

Probably a controversial take, but I think these look overrated and won't see play. You make it sound like these cards let you pick up your entire deck and get whatever, but it's only a top 4 search, which if you are looking for a specific card in your deck with 4 copies is about ~32% You also underestimate the tempo loss of 2 don. If you're playing this on any turn that's not turn 2 or 3, you're playing 1 turn behind. eg: If your opponent is curving out with an X don play, and you play this event, you can only respond with an X-2 don play, putting you behind Being an event with no counter is also a big deal. Imagine facing a tempo aggro deck and being under life pressure, and you need counter in hand, but you have a bunch of these events. You're forced to spend 2 don for each event to unbrick your hand or die. Then you're probably gonna die anyways because you probably don't have enough don left over to play your blocker, pump your leader to swing over their characters, or whatever you needed to do

[@WillofDDT]

So I absolutely agree there are certain decks that gladly forgo these cards, because they just don't need them due to their current engines being consistent enough, like Blackbeard & Doffy. For the reasons you stated, such decks would pass on these cards cuz they're not increasing the deck's current consistency by much But for many other decks, I think the risks you stated are absolutely trivial compared to the consistency these cards bring. I think the point about playing these cards any later than Turn 2 or 3 is moot, because you can make that point about any searcher, even most searcher bodies. Not being a counter is valid. But the fact that off-life this card isn't a brick alleviates a lot of the risk of running non-counter. It's not a true brick like an 8-10c character would be. You have a chance to use it early on to find something. And if you get it off life, when your opponent's going for lethal, that is normally the riskiest time to see a brick, cuz you don't have a chance to do anything with it before your opponent runs you over. But here, you'll likely convert in into a 1k off trigger (granted, not a 2k, cuz most 4c+ units are not 2k's, but you'll get some counter nonetheless). Can you see 4 of these cards in your hand against a Zoro/Doffy/etc and die cuz you had no counter? Sure, but that's an abysmal hand to start with anyways, and you really wouldn't be much happier if you had a hand full of, say, 4 Brannews lol. As far as the odds of finding any 4-of in my deck being 32%... Idk, I guess we perceive that statement differently my friend 😆. A 1/3rd chance of finding any given card sounds pretty damn good to me! But to be serious - I hear you, obviously it's not like whatever you could possibly want is gonna be in the Top 4 cards of your deck - but I think the point I'm moreso making is that regardless of what IS in the Top 4 of your deck, you have an extremely versatile search that will allow you to grab whichever card is most suitable for your current situation/matchup. Normally in any given search, there will be a couple of cards where I'll think "Damn, it's a shame the rest of these have to go to the bottom, I'm really gonna need that card later." With these events, whatever key card is in those Top 4, you can most likely grab it. The likelihood that ONE of the cards you'd like to see for the matchup is in those Top 4 is quite high. You have options; you won't be pinching yourself for searching and bottomdecking one of the important cards you needed. I think that's the insanely good part - not that you'll definitely find the *exact* card you want, but that you can most likely choose the best card out of the four, every single time. I do agree with you that I don't think these cards replace body searchers (at least not for all decks). 8c Moria for example always wants the ability to revive a 2c searcher from trash, which is not something that could be done with these events. So I certainly don't think all decks suddenly drop their body searchers, but I do think plenty decks can supplement them with these events, and others probably do replace the searchers outright and go for much more diverse builds

[@sekiun]

@@WillofDDTi respect this answer and agree. sub’d

[@Thomazbr]

One thing to consider is that a lot of the 2ks that people put on the deck are low cost by default. One thing with the archetype searchers is that even if you miss out of your huge bombs sometimes you're more often than not getting a 2k on your hand. And by the end of the game the 2ks in your hand sometimes are the difference between life and death. It does raise the value of the 4c+ 2ks tho so Egghead Franky and Perona become even more attractive than what they already are

[@WillofDDT]

@@sekiun Much appreciated dude!

[@WillofDDT]

@@Thomazbr Agreed, this definitely came to my mind as well, but as you mentioned, I think people will just start running more of the 4c and 5c 2k's (Perona, Mihawk, Satori, Franky, Carrot, Vergo, etc), and overall just adjust their deckbuilding around these events Putting these events in your decks definitely comes with some considerations, but there are ways to accommodate those for sure

[@lifshootsgaming2585]

Well gecko moris needs to be dealt with tbh

[@hammers7475]

😊

[@animebrezel1272]

I really get your point but on the other hand decks that Don't have a searcher at all will be much more playable because of it, so i'm really happy about it, its still not as good as a 1cost Charakter that searches the top 5 so i think its alright

[@WillofDDT]

Again, I personally think it's better in some ways, cuz a 1c character that searches Top 5 almost always comes with the risk of bottomdecking your best late-game characters, the powerful 8, 9, and 10 costs. With these events, you can actually grab all those late game characters. But I do agree, I'd like to see a lot of off-meta decks that weren't able to run searchers before now be able to search their key pieces. I used to play R/B Sabo, and I absolutely loved that deck, but I couldn't run any searchers, cuz 1/3 of the deck was Navy, 1/3 was Rev Army, and 1/3 was StrawHats. Now I can actually search those pieces, which is super neat 👌

[@LimiterRemoval]

Hey. WIll you do an updated Smoker Deck list for OP09 ? Maybe some adjustments because Shanks and Blackbeard? Would be nice to hear your thoughts on that. Green Bonney Deck for example can play the 9c Zorro again for example and I thought there might be changes for Smoker too. 🤷‍♂ Maybe Brooks? Maybe Sabos? Maybe even Garps because low-life blockers could matter in the upcoming format? 🤷‍♂

[@WillofDDT]

Yeah, it's a good question - I personally want to wait a little bit before making adjustments, because I feel the West's meta always changes up a good bit after release as people start including new cards to counter the latest decks. In a couple of weeks the meta should settle, so I'll get back to you with my changes after that! Keep your eye out for another Smoker video 😁