[One Piece Card Information Bureau] OP16 - THE TIME OF BATTLE Unboxing

 

That was quick, we didn't get much information video for OP16 for both EN and JP Channels, and now they went straight to unboxing, so I guess, there will be a lot of cards I'll be posting. Although, some of the cards have already been revealed, so it won't be anything new.

Cards

Portgas.D.Ace

Blue Character (OP16-049)

3 Cost / 0 Power (Special)

Impel Down / Whitebeard Pirates

[Counter +1000]

[Activate: Main] You may rest this Character: Draw 1 card.

A simple draw power, but cost 3 to play with 0 base power. I guess Ace will be taking the hit because of that 0 base power. I doubt your opponents will be generous enough to let you keep drawing cards from your deck.

Kouzuki Momonosuke

Black Character (OP16-084)

5 Cost / 0 Power (Slash)

Land of Wano / Kouzuki Clan

[Counter +2000]

[Activate: Main] You may trash this Character with a cost of 20 or more: If you have 9 or more DON!! cards on your field, play up to 1 [Kouzuki Momonosuke] with a cost of 9 from your trash. 

Looks like the new Yamato build will also have increase costs style as well as mill. I don't know how easy to get Momo 20 cost or more, but considering you need 9 DONs, this isn't a early turn card to use.

Shinobu

Black Character (OP16-087)

2 Cost / 1000 Power (Special)

Land of Wano

[Counter +2000]

[On Play] You may trash this Character: If your Leader has the {Land of Wano} type, draw 1 card and give up to 1 of your [Kouzuki Momonosuke] gains +20 cost during this turn. 

Well, looks like we have 1 card that will solve Momo's effect and we will need Shinobu to pull this off. Playing both cards on the same turn only cost 7 DONs in total, so you will still need to wait until you have 9 DONs to use these 2 cards together. You could play Momo first, but there will be a risk of encountering cards that could remove Momo on the field.

Otama

Black Character (OP16-081)

2 Cost / 0 Power (Special)

Land of Wano

[Counter +2000]

[Activate: Main] You may rest this Character: If you have a Character with a cost of 8 or more, give up to 1 of your opponent's Characters −2000 power during this turn. 

Looks like Otama is still Otama, but this time, this cost 2 to play and we need an 8 cost or more for the power reducer. I don't think 8 cost or more is difficult as we got cards like Jack who can increase the card's cost. Plus, this is an activate main effect instead of on play. I guess the only downside is that she is easy to remove.

Nico Robin

Black Character (OP16-092)

1 Cost / 2000 Power (Strike)

Land of Wano / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +1000]

[On Play] You may trash 1 Character card with a cost of 8 or more from your hand: Draw 2 cards.

Black finally got a draw power card and not just a hand filter effect. I guess the only downside is that we need to run 8 cost or more in the build, so this will go in very specific build. I might be able to run Robin in Nika Luffy build, but I will have to wait and find out.

Benn.Beckman

Red Character (OP16-012)

5 Cost / 6000 Power (Ranged)

Red-Haired Pirates

[Counter +1000]

<Blocker>
[On Play] You may rest 1 of your DON!! cards: If your Leader has the {Red-Haired Pirates} type and you have 10 DON!! cards on your field, play up to 1 [Shanks] from your hand. 

It's about time we've got some RH supports and Beckman is very good. You will be able to play any Shanks from your hand, so of course, if you are running 10 drop Shanks, we can play them for free with Beckman's effect, and this will only cost you 6 altogether to get 2 Characters on the field. I guess the only downside is waiting for 10 DONs.

Magellan

Purple Character (OP16-074)

8 Cost / 10000 Power (Special)

Impel Down

[On Play] If your Leader has the {Impel Down} type, your opponent returns 1 DON!! card from their field to their DON!! deck.

[On K.O] Your opponent returns 4 DON!! cards from their field to their DON!! deck.

I know this cost 8 to play, but personally, this is better than OP02 Magellan. I guess the only advantage was OP02 version was a 5 drop whilst OP16 cost 8 to play. Although, their effects are almost identical except with a slight change to the KO effect. Instead of returning 2, we can return 4 DONs instead which makes a huge difference.

Monkey.D.Luffy

Black Character (OP16-095)

2 Cost / 2000 Power (Strike)

Land of Wano / Straw Hat Crew

[Counter +2000]

[On Play] Up to 1 of your black {Land of Wano} type Characters gains [Unblockable] during this turn.
(This card cannot be blocked.) 

More Unblockable to shorten the card text, but only works for Wano Characters, specifically, black Wano Characters which reduce a lot of options. I guess it won't matter as long as we can get a decent beat stick for Wano Characters to make your opponent used up a lot of counters from their hand.

Jesus Burgess

Yellow Character (OP16-107)

3 Cost / 5000 Power (Strike)

Blackbeard Pirates

[On K.O] Add up to 1 card from the top of your opponent’s Life cards to the owner’s hand.

[Trigger] You may trash 1 card from your hand: Play this card. 

Burgess is not bad, unfortunately doesn't trash your opponent's Life area like OP10 Hawkins. I guess they've abandon that idea and made it weaker by letting your opponent's add cards from Life area to hand. This is still very easy to trigger as the new BB Leader is similar to OP14 Moria in terms of KOing your own Characters.

Gum-Gum Twin Jet Pistol

Green Event (OP16-039)

1 Cost

Impel Down / Straw Hat Crew

[Main] Up to 1 of your [Monkey D. Luffy] gains <Double Attack> during this turn. Then, if your Leader has the {Impel Down} type, rest up to 2 of your opponent’s Characters with a cost of 3 or less.

[Trigger] Rest your opponent’s Leader.

You could run this in other green Luffy build as the rest effect is not very good. Only target two 3 cost or less Characters, so you could just run this for the Double Attack to make your attacks more aggressive. The trigger effect is rest your opponent's Leader which is always handy if your opponent decide to attack with the Leader last.

Monkey.D.Garp

Purple Character (OP16-075)

5 Cost / 6000 Power (Strike)

Navy

[Counter +1000]

[On Play] If your Leader has the {Navy} type, add up to 1 DON!! card from your DON!! deck and set it as active, and add up to 1 additional DON!! card and rest it.

More ramp for the new Sengoku Leader. I think we will need it with the amount of returning DONs the Admirals can do, so every bit of ramp cards will definitely help.

Miss.Olive

Blue Character (OP16-050)

5 Cost / 6000 Power (Wisdom)

Impel Down

[Counter +1000]

<Blocker>
[On Play] You may return 1 of your Characters with a cost of 2 or more to its owner’s hand: Draw 2 cards and trash 1 card from your hand.

More draw power for blue and you could use Olive in any build as we could recycle the on play effect especially if that 2 cost or more Character would be very useful. Although, I am not sure, because on paper, you could use this in any build, but when it comes to playing the deck, might be a waste of space for some blue decks.

Trafalgar Law

Green Character OP16-030

8 Cost / 9000 Power (Slash)

Supernovas / Heart Pirates

[On Play] Up to 1 of your opponent’s rested Characters will not become active in your opponent’s next Refresh Phase.

[End of Your Turn] Set all of your Green Characters with a cost of 5 or less as active.

It's a shame that Law is an 8 cost, or I've got an idea for the OP10 Law build. However, reading the effect, I can definitely run this card in Lim build as untapping all of our 5 cost or less Green Characters will definitely help since Lim play our Characters at rest. I will have to find space for this build in Lim deck.

LittleOars Jr.

Red Character (OP16-017)

4 Cost / 8000 Power (Strike)

Giant / Whitebeard Pirates Allies

[Counter +1000]

If you do not have a Character with a cost of 8 or more including ”Whitebeard Pirates” in its types, give this Character -4000 power.
<Blocker> (After your opponent declares an attack, you may rest this card to make it the new target of the attack)

That's one powerful Blocker for a 4 drop, however, we do need an 8 cost WB Pirates type on the field in order to get the full benefit of this card. I could squeeze like 2 copies in the build, but I doubt you want to run because of the requirements.

Pull Rates

I know we are going back to normal ratios for OP16 but JP set has a different ratios compare to EN, and they have pulled 2 AAs and 2 SR in a box.