[One Piece Card Information Bureau] ST29 Egghead Unboxing

 

I did not expect we see an unboxing videos considering the card reveals just got revealed last week. Then again, I noticed it's December now and the deck releases on the 20th. Looking at the cards, it is not a starter deck with some old Egghead cards, it is a completely new set of Egghead cards. Good for Vegapunk who will be using some of those cards, and also OP13 Bonney who could make use of the Trigger Characters. I will ignore vanilla cards as they don't have an effect to talk about.

Cards

Usopp

Yellow Character (ST29-002)

3 Cost / 4000 Power (Ranged)

Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

[On Play] / [When Attacking] Rest up to 1 of your opponent's Characters with a cost equal to or less than the number of your opponent's Life cards.

Personally, I don't think this is good even though we have an effect that works on play or when attacking. However, I could run this with a Black/Yellow Leader where we would make use of the cost reducers to maximise the rest effect.

Kaku

Yellow Character (ST29-003) 

4 Cost / 5000 Power (Slash)

Egghead / CP0

[Counter +1000]

If the number of your Life cards is equal or less than the number of your opponent’s Life cards, this Character gains +1000 power.

[Trigger] K.O up to 1 of your opponent’s Characters with a cost of 3 or less. 

Maintaining our Life cards will be a problem, but yellow do have some Life gain cards, allowing Kaku to maintain that 6k power. Overall, I won't say the card is bad, but it is not actually good either to use in a normal build. The trigger effect will most likely be useless unless your opponent has low cost Blockers.

Jinbe

Yellow Character (ST29-005)

6 Cost / 5000 Power (Strike)

Fish-Man / Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +2000]

[Trigger] If your Leader is [Monkey.D.Luffy], play this card. 

Considering Jinbe only works with Luffy Leader, I wish they up the power by 1k, so I would rather take 6 drop 6k rather than 6 drop 5k. I know we've got 2k counter, so this could be OP if we run 4 of this in the Luffy build and rely on Life gain cards to get Jinbe in the Life area. I think that might be the reason why this card is only 5k rather than 6k.

Tony Tony.Chopper

Yellow Character (ST29-007)

4 Cost / 5000 Power (Wisdom)

Animal / Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

[On K.O] You may add 1 card from the top or bottom of your Life cards to your hand: Add up to 1 card from your hand to the top of your Life cards.

[Trigger] Up to 1 of your [Monkey.D.Luffy] cards gains +2000 during this turn. 

Looks like we've got Hiyori 2.0, but unlike Hiyori, Chopper need to work on KO. Well it does limit your opponent's attacking option so I would take it if we are building a trigger deck. Speaking of trigger deck, it seems the trigger effect only works with Luffy, of course, you would want to use this on the Leader, unless you are also running Characters you can target.

Nami

Yellow Character (ST29-008)

3 Cost / 1000 Power (Special)

Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

If 1 of your Characters with the {Egghead} type would be K.O.'d by your opponent's effect, you may turn 1 card from top of your Life cards face-up instead.

[Trigger] If your Leader is [Monkey.D.Luffy], play this card.

This is not bad, we can protect our Egghead cards against KO effects. Of course, there are other ways to get around this effect and we may be limited to 1, unless we can replace the face up Life cards so Nami's effect can be constantly active. Unfortunately, the trigger effect only works with Luffy and I was thinking to run this in Vegapunk for the protection.

Nico Robin

Yellow Character (ST29-009)

4 Cost / 2000 Power (Strike)

Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +2000]

<Blocker>

[Trigger] If your Leader is [Monkey.D.Luffy], play this card. 

Another card that is limited to Luffy build is Robin. Just a plain Blocker, but we do have 2k counter we could use which might be handy. Otherwise, hard playing a 2k Blocker will not be very useful, so we definitely need to find ways to put Robin into the Life area to play the card for free.

Brook

Yellow Character (ST29-011)

2 Cost / 2000 Power (Slash)

Egghead / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

<Blocker>

Just a plain 2 drop Blocker, but I would rather play Brook over Robin if they are both 2k Blockers, since Brook only cost 2 to play which won't need to spend 40% of your DONs to play a single Blocker that doesn't have extra effect.

Monkey.D.Luffy

Yellow Character (ST29-012)

1 Cost / 0 Power (Strike)

Egghead / Four Emperors / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

[Activate: Main] [Once Per Turn] Give up to 1 rested DON!! card to 1 of your [Monkey.D.Luffy] cards.

[Trigger] Play this card. 

This is not bad for a 1 drop, but unfortunately only works with Luffy cards. If you are running Luffy Leader, then, you could run this card in the build to make the Leader 6k beat stick instead of 5k.

Rob Lucci

Yellow Character (ST29-013) 

5 Cost / 6000 Power (Strike)

Egghead / CP0

[Counter +1000]

[Trigger] K.O up to 1 of your opponent’s Characters with a cost equal to or less than the total of your and your opponent’s Life cards. 

Looks like we've got OP04 Yamato as an trigger effect where the more Life cards we've got the more choices we can can KO. During mid to late game will be a bit more difficult to pull off unless you can constantly perform Life gain, so you can choose high cost Characters even if your opponent has low health.

You get a pack from the starter deck which seems we got AA for each cards in the starter deck and looks like we've got Usopp AA pulled. Although, this definitely looks the same as the normal art, but just a full art version of the card instead of being an AA version.