[One Piece Card Information Bureau] ST22 Unboxing Video

 

It is that time again for unboxing video, this time, it is for ST22 which is blue WB Pirates deck. There are a lot of new cards and not just some reprint like the previous starter decks that were made before. They might also go well with Red/Blue Marco build or Blue/Yellow Ace builds. Who knows? but I will be looking forward to upgrade those old builds until rotation kicks in.

Again, these cards revealed are not 100% official translation, so don't go thinking they will be worded the same when they come out in English. But I will try my best to make the translation as close as possible. There will be some cards I would ignore like Vanillas and have Blocker only on the card. So you will need to watch the video if you want the full card list.

Izo

Blue Character (ST22-002)

1 Cost / 0 Power (Ranged)

Land of Wano / Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter +1000]

[On Play] Look at 5 cards from top of your deck; reveal up to 1 card with a type including "Whitebeard Pirates" other than [Izo] and add it to your hand. Then, place the rest at the bottom of your deck in any order.

[On Your Opponent's Attack] You may trash this Character: Draw 1 card. Then, place 1 card from your hand at the bottom of your deck.

I like how One Piece is moving on to these new type of searchers where they have a second effect. Yes the rarity will be bumped up, so the pricing for these cards might be more expensive. But at least, we won't have to manual replace them when we filled up the field. The second effect is great with Marco Leader as we could easily filter our deck by checking the top cards.

I Am Whitebeard!!!!

8 Cost / Blue Event (ST22-015)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Main] If your Leader's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, play up to 1 [Edward Newgate] from your hand. Then, you may add 1 card from top or bottom of your Life cards into your hand. If you do, up to 1 of your Leader gains +2000 power until the start of your next turn.

A conditional Event for WB Pirates build. Of course, if you play Red/Blue Marco, we would be able to access OP02 WB, giving your Leader 4k power in total making your Leader a 9k beat stick. I would assume that WB will be very high cost, but I guess you don't have to play WB if you don't have WB in your hand, just that extra 2k power bonus will be very useful.

Ace & Newgate

Blue Leader (ST22-001)

5 Life / 5000 Power (Special)

The Four Emperors / Whitebeard Pirates

[Activate:Main][Once Per Turn] You may reveal up to 1 card with a type including "Whitebeard Pirates" from your hand: Draw 1 card and place the revealed card at the top of your deck.

The second dual Leader I think, but unlike Zoro & Sanji, we've only got 1 colour for this starter deck. But reading the effect, it wouldn't make sense to make Ace & Newgate Blue/Red Leader as the effect is very similar to Marco's effect. But I would take Marco over Ace & Newgate if that happened. Anyway, I think the effect is okay, but we are limited to WB Pirates, so if you combined with other blue cards, we need to make sure there is at least 1 WB Pirate card in our hand. But this can also work with OP06 Sanji, but limited to playing WB Pirates cards from top of our decks.

Kouzuki Oden

Blue Character (ST22-005)

7 Cost / 8000 Power (Slash)

Land of Wano / Kouzuki Clan / Whitebeard Pirates

If this Character would be removed from the field by your opponents effects, you may trash 2 cards from your hand instead. 
[Activate:Main] [Once Per Turn] You may rest 3 of your DON!! cards and return 1 of your other Characters to the owner’s hand: Set this Character as active.

We've got Oden, I don't think the effect is that bad as you can easily go for the push to take out your opponent's Life cards as soon as possible, as well as spamming your on play effects, especially Izo to get those searching going and increasing your hand size. This also means the first effect we would have enough cards to discard to protect Oden from being removed. I also think, this is not once per turn, so as long you have the hand size, you could keep using the effect, not like I would recommend doing this in this game.

Edward Newgate

Blue Character (ST22-003)

9 Cost / 10000 Power (Slash)

The Four Emperors / Whitebeard Pirates

<Double Attack>
[On Play] Reveal 1 card from top of your deck. If that card's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, draw 2 cards. 

This is quite good in WB Pirates build, but outside of those decks, we might be difficult to trigger the condition, unless you run the WB Pirates engine in the build. OP06 Sanji could play this card for free, trigger WB's effect to draw 2 cards. Of course, we would need to rely on Perona and Doffy when it comes to checking more of your top cards, unless we can get more WB Pirates cards to place cards on top of your deck.

Jozu

Blue Character (ST22-006)

7 Cost / 8000 Power (Strike)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter +1000]

[On Play] Reveal 1 card from top of your deck. If that card's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, draw 2 cards and trash 1 card from your hand.

This is similar to WB, but we do need to trash a card from our hand instead of being a draw power card. But he does have a 1k counter for a 7 drop Character. I feel like they are becoming more commons aside from Vanilla cards, and I definitely take it. There's nothing wrong with having too much draw power, unless you are close to decking out.

Squard

Blue Character (ST22-007)

1 Cost / 2000 Power (Slash)

Whitebeard Pirates Allies

[Counter +1000]

[Activate:Main] [Once Per Turn] Reveal 1 card from top of your deck. If that card's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, give up to 1 rested DON!! card to your Leader or 1 of your Characters.

This is definitely going in Marco build since we need to attach a DON to trigger Marco's effect. Although in Ace & Newgate build, I don't think I would run Squard in this build, as I don't really see the benefit of attaching rested DONs other than gaining the power, unless, we've got some cards in this build that would benefit from attaching DONs.

Whitey Bay

Blue Character (ST22-011)

1 Cost / 1000 Power (Slash)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter +2000]

[Your Turn] [On Play] You may reveal 2 cards with a type including "Whitebeard Pirates" from your hand: Up to 1 of your Leader with a type including "Whitebeard Pirates" gains +2000 power during this turn.

I must have missed something here, when did Whitey Bay went from WB Allies to WB Pirates. Although if you don't care about that, then this doesn't matter. The effect is not bad, as we can power up our Leader, so we won't need to rely on DONs. Plus Oden and OP08 Jozu could spam this effect as long as we've got at least 2 WB Pirates cards in our hand. The 2k counter is also handy, so even you don't plan on using her effect, there's always that 2k counter we can use unlike Squard.

Marco

Blue Character (ST22-012)

4 Cost / 5000 Power (Special)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter +1000]

[Once Per Turn] If this Character would be KO’d by your opponents effects, you may trash 1 card from your hand instead.

[When attacking] Reveal 1 card from top of your deck. If that card's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, this Character gains +1000 power until the start of your next turn.

Not bad at all, Marco could become a 6k beat stick, but unfortunately we don't have the phoenix effect like the previous 2 Marco we've got. I guess it is similar to them, but only work against effects and not by battle too. They didn't want you to have 3 Marco on the field with those kind of effect, that would literally make Marco very OP, and you can just focus the build on Marco Characters.

Take That Back…!!! Take Back What You Said!!!

1 Cost / Blue Event (ST22-016)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter] Reveal 1 card from top of your deck. If that card's type includes {Whitebeard Pirates}, up to 1 of your Leader or Character cards gains +4000 power during this battle.

[Trigger] Draw 1 card.

I vaguely remember this scene where Ace and Akainu had a discussion during the Marineford arc, and Akainu respect Gold Roger and not WB which made Ace very pissed. I know it was something like that among the line. Anyway, this is not a bad Event, and I'll take it, since it is that instant 4k power without needing Life requirement. You only need to check the top card which is easy to do with some of our blue cards. The trigger effect is just draw 1 card, this is just bare minimum, they didn't want to do anything to make this card OP.

Fire Fist

5 Cost / Blue Event (ST22-017)

Whitebeard Pirates

[Main] You may reveal 2 cards with a type including "Whitebeard Pirates" from your hand: Draw 1 card and place 1 Character with a cost of 5 or less at the bottom of the owner’s deck.

[Trigger] Return up to 1 Character with a cost of 3 or less to the owner’s hand.

More Fire Fist but this one is definitely a bit cost compare to the other 2 Fire Fist. I think the only difference with this is that you can draw a card, otherwise, I would keep Red Roc or Gravity Blade unless I am desperate for WB Pirates cards. I won't know unless I test it, but I hardly doubt it would be better than those 2. I am not too bothered about the draw power with WB and Jozu in the build.

Something that will stay the same will be the starter deck will come with these alt art cards. Just like the previous, one build should contain 3 of these alt arts. Judging my luck from the past, pulling the ones I want will be very difficult, I tend to pull the useless one like vanillas, or the ones that won't even sell much if I sell the card. Well this is for people who want to full bling their builds with alt art whilst I'm fine with the standard arts they give us.