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So because I have so many cards that mill in this list it can suck to mill them but we can get through the deck so fast that you can recycle them to the bottom and have a good chance to get back to them in time in the late game. As for the 7 drops Kyros is really good, but in this build I am looking to be more defensive with my high cost bodies so I value aramaki more. As for Rebecca because we can’t play her on curve and both cards have to be in hand I don’t really think she is a great option. She also requires an 8 cost already on board and I would rather just play to luzamaki instead. Hope this helps!

Ok, thanks. I think you've got a point

Is that the bounce mansherry turn? I was planning on it but because I already activated the Zoro the first time I couldn’t rest leader for the second play because the mansherry requires me to rest stage/leader as well. But that was the original plan until I realized that while playing the mansherry.

Ah man yeah your right, forget zoro requires resting too, otherwise would have been an awesome play!

@@elvahaduken7981 for sure I was hoping for it but that’s also why that play took so long I couldn’t figure out why she wasn’t activating lol

So vs shanks it’s really reliant on find kuzan, if they run the 10 drop film shanks then it can be a little rough otherwise once kuzan hits the board they struggle to deal with him. Ultimately you start playing bodies that force them to use removal, which means that he can’t play many of his rush characters. If my local meta sticks to a lot of shanks I will debate slotting in a couple Kyros back in to be a nuisance card in the matchup. As for Katakuri just counter out some of the early attacks and try to limit the mid game damage to one a turn and accept the hits into the early late game because 10drop moms mean you will lose the life either way, play lots of blockers and once more you need kuzan, lucky thing is he has no way of dealing with kuzan unless he runs raigo and if he does he will lose like 4-5 life to answer kuzan and that can just lose him the game.

@ it is hard to survive until 10 don

I get this comment about kuzamaki a lot but I personally don’t experience this, I would need some elaboration to be able to help, what is causing you to have issue getting to 10 Don? A lot of things can cause this feeling but in my experience I make it to 10 Don most of the time against those matchups specifically pretty easily, now pluffy and Doffy or any super aggressive deck if you don’t see the right cards early I get. They can feel impossible as they can be to fast and wide early and just be too much pressure before you can fully set up, but shanks and Katakuri generally also take a couple of turns to set up and are just 1-2 swings a turn until late game. But without seeing how your games are playing out it’s hard to give very specific advice.

Heard man I don’t see any luffys here most of ours is Doffy, BB and Shanks but I’ll get in some pluffy games at least soon

@@chrisk1517 That’s the thing, just detach yourself from your emotions and play with cool calculated movements. Then become internally irrationally mad when you mess up.

@@trippievip I’ll give them a look I try to read them all even if I don’t comment

@@redblackdg the 8 drop? He is currently in my testing rotation, what I have found is if there is lower number of doffys and more shanks and pluffy he is the better card. But if there is more doffys , blackbeards and by luffys then ama is the better option. Sabo is a better option for taller decks that play a little slower that I have time to wrestle control back from on the 8 Don turn. Where as ama is more versatile and better for dealing with faster decks.

@ ahhh I dont know my local meta well enough. I am only able to go a few times a month Edit: Cant wait to swap to Ussop and use Hound Blaze and have an 8k leader swing every now and again

So for pluffy the most important cards would be rebecca blocker, 2k counters and setting up for the 6-10 don curve as best you can, what that means is you want to have hajrudin into aramaki into kuzan, the biggest tweaks I am making for the list is removing both stainless and 1 copy of kyros, opting for another aramaki for consistency and 2 more sabos to allow for neutral digging power/ hand filtering as well as adding in a couple more blockers. Another option to explore is dropping the 2 7 drop luffy's for two copies of lucci as he adds essentially two more ama no murakumos and a decent stat stick that can be brought back from trash. Pluffy is one of Becca's harder MUs this block but can be winnable it really depends on how fast a start they have as well as how big they swing early, if they swing with 5k-7k swings countering out is the best option as our late game is hard for them to deal with as most of their characters fall into the 7 and under range which means once kuzan is on board we can kill most of their board with ease. Avoid swinging at his life with characters like hajrudin, his ability is more important than the pressure and only swing with brooks and kyros early, brook if you have reduction and can remove a body and kyros just because he is hard for them to remove and can suck up 3 attacks from a person unfamiliar with the MU.

It’s a slow deck. Against meta . Still not bad

Yes, outside of the tournament the list ultimately has done well and even at that one of my two loses was because of me and the other was due to not knowing the matchup all too well. Plus I’ll agree that Enel isn’t exactly a meta matchup atm but shanks is preforming very well in this format and is at worst a tier 1.5. Going 1-1 vs the deck is pretty good result on the day especially when I tooled my deck for Doffy and didn’t see him and still felt the list competed well into other matchups despite me misplaying at times.

Do not play Rebecca until op10 and even then, she will be sucks anyway. Just play Usopp

@@ShonenVx Went pretty good overall. 3-2 record, should have been 6 rounds but something happened that caused it to cut to top 8 after 5 rounds. One of my loses could have been a win, I played it kind of bad and was getting distracted by my meds wearing off

No problem. Everything is a an experience. Next time you will smash it. Also wanted to ask will you make a video of how you will play Rebecca in op10 ? Like a deck list for op10

@ yeah it’ll be a little closer to release or at least once I can make it on the sim

@@martimmeloferreira4812 thanks for the sub, what poster are you talking about though?

@@the_lord_nick Hahah the one you got gifted. You showed in the beginnig of the video. I have one just like that so Im mandatory to subscribe hahah

@ oh! Forgot I showed that off lol this week has been a haze, on so many prescriptions got so much brain fog

@@TheConstructionGuy24 so any five drop blocker is fine, just sabo is searchable and the hand filter can come in clutch

@@TheConstructionGuy24 hina blocker is an option but adds more non dressrosa and riku is archetype sub option, with stage he is also a 7k swing onto a rested character

I answered this question on one of your other comments, it isn’t as good without orlombus and it makes our late game less consistent as it becomes easier to mill aramaki and kuzan.

@@the_lord_nicksorry I never got a notification I was also gonna ask how come no rikudo

@@nocureforyou9747 Like King Riku? I was high on the card for a bit but ran into a scenario were at that point I was running to many 2-3 ofs without the searcher body so I was not seeing them enough at the times I wanted them, when I move to op10 list I will have significantly less non dressrosa and more options of self mill with less set up so rebecca searchers and a few other cards will be back in the list at that time.

Thanks bud! I liked the stainless a lot but with so many of them high rolling the teach I wanted to have something that can clear a teach and a four cost body on four don

So when playing with a top end that is not on arcetype anyform of multiple card mill can be catastrophic in certain matchups. Also the searcher is made better with orlombus as it becomes a 1 cost reduce cost by four, where as in this list it would only serve as a searcher. Its not a bad option but the chance of milling too many valuable cards is rough, and often times we want to play our top end on curve.

@@the_lord_nick i dont think it really works like that. milling the card you wanted to draw FEELS shitty, but including the card doesnt decrease your chances of seeing the card you want. not playing the searcher your cards could also just be at the bottom if youre unlucky, same result as being unlucky by milling them. The ratio doesnt change, youll draw your top ends at the same exact rates

@ so it makes it harder to see the non dressrosa cards because you are adding in more instances where you can mill them and in large chances to do so. If I use a leader ability to search there are two cards that could be non dressrosa where as searcher Rebecca is 3 cards and it also can’t grab Rebecca so it adds more cards to the list of non targets.

So stylistically the gecko build will become way more consistent than it is now. Zoro is the type of card that would allow Rebecca to abuse Gecko more comparably and possibly better than other black decks. As for 7 cost Rebecca that is going to be mainly an Usopp-only card. That being said, Usopp will be the better midrange deck between the two. His abilities are more suited to that style and his being able to attack helps with that, he will rely on stage even more than Rebecca to not lose the tempo, but you could arguably play him control-oriented and only swing with the leader when you don't have something else to play or you are trying to finish game. As for Rebecca in 10, I think a route that doesn't use either gecko, 7-cost Rebecca, or the Kuzamaki combos will be stronger than currently represented. You can run a nearly all Dressrosa build and theoretically to me that looks like the strongest option for her that no one is attempting because they overvalue how strong Gecko is, at least from my perspective. The consistency of leader ability and synergy of the new Dressrosa cards look like it would be a strong and unique way to play, with lost of combos and trash management. TLDR: Rebecca should be the stronger control deck in 10 and Usopp would be better for tempo, though both could play the other strategy with proper deck building.

@the_lord_nick i would assume usopp is the better tempo one since it gives you cards when they kill your units and that allows for more swings, but since rebecca can have that proactively while searching and fills trash feel way better to play, even at the cost of not swinging obv, but i assumed kuzamaki would still be the way since dressrosa lacks good trashing or bottom decking thos two would still be the way to go. Still prolly will play boths decks when op10 drops and just enjoy some dresrossa gaming. Thanks for the insight!

He is mainly for cycle now, don’t need four atm but not too many other options to fill his slot atm

I hope so. I want to buy the mangas cheaper. Lol.

@@natebeal18 LOL, I don't think his small downspike in playability will change it that much, but who knows maybe it plummets the price, fingers crossed for you!

In the context of the video, he could easily be put into A tier, but I placed him there because I believe there will be enough blackbeards in the format specifically to snipe him, having 4 top end one time use cards does not give you an auto win into blackboard. That is an unfavorable matchup for lucci no matter what way you look at it. He has been able to beat doffy but just as often losses to him, he generally loses out to by Luffy with few occasions going in his favor. If the meta does not shift to everyone jumping ship for Blackbeard, then yes Lucci will be higher in the rankings, but based on how tired everyone seems to be with Lucci and the fact that Blackbeard is more solved than he was for most of the Eastern OP09, I highly suspect that we will see Lucci fall down to at least A tier if not to the Rogue(tier 3) just due to an expected high presence of an unfavorable matchup.

@the_lord_nick Lucci doesn't get hard sniped by BB. That is the bad take. Lucci can still win against BB it just comes down to skill because you can deal with BB due to 9c Kaido and your events and Jack is still really solid in K.Oing everything besides Burgess but that's why you have nightmare Luffy. Lucci is on the same tier as Shanks, saying Lucci is rogue is just silly because he has the one of the highest win rates throughout OP09 landing him in the top 5 decks of the format and has a championship win over both Doffy and Burgess and there won't be a lot of BB players because BB is an extremely hard deck to pilot which is why you don't see a lot of BB players in top cut besides the really good ones even though BB is definitely top 2 decks in the game.

Consistent tops on the east is getting blasted?

I don't have a lot of free time to be able to edit, plus I am not very good at editing to begin with. The cough will pass hopefully next week it will be better. However, the video later this week will also include the cough.

@@the_lord_nick i always wanna see optcg content creators grow cause i watch em every day. i hope you didnt take any offence cause none was intended. im just honestly telling you its really off putting to hear. but anyways hope you get better and thanks for taking time to make these vids. ✌️

@@worldsgottalenttv1407 No all good mate, I just suck at doing editting, but about to graduate this week so start of the year I may try to learn Davinci resolve again. But thanks for the comments appreciate having folks let me know what they would like to see, even if its just not having me cough at them lol

I used to have one, haven't had this bad of a cough in years. Going to a doctor after I move in a few weeks, but it is starting to get a bit better.

I think my meta is going to be infested with Buggys... Lot of Buggy simps in Austin, but once that settles down it will be a ton of Blackbeard for a bit and probably still a lot of Sanjis, idk lots of aggro players here so could be some decent amount of Robins and Shanks here as well.

Gotcha, thought he turned it off until your next turn, misread on my part, does mean he actually sucks into ten drop kuzan then lol

​@@the_lord_nickno the character is turned off or Ur turn too. Only the leader isn't.

@@tacticisacting3702 Thats so weird, i guess it stops stuff like usop ability and a couple of the static buff leader stuff. Hmm aight then thanks for the update lol

​@@the_lord_nick Yeah the leader negate is pretty much just good against enel, bonney, shanks (a little bit), nami, etc.

The upgrades for the deck and its ability to keep placing relatively well throughout the 09 meta makes me believe it has a real chance to continue competing

I agree with this. Gum Gum Giant is a monstrous counter card. Luffytaro is insane too. It does have a lot of on plays so BB matchup isn't amazing, but other wise it's solid.

Yes sir, I’ll be in the San Antonio Lucci scene soon…

@@Average-00 it’s a solid deck, hard to say if it will be the best way to play Rebecca, but they are using an old formula for deck building for black so it should be pretty solid none the less. As for current build I would say the Moria route is bad, also they didn’t match into Blackbeard from what the reported matchups I see posted are, and that list looks like it might get fisted by bb

@@ddeine_ I do but it’s hard to tell what reduction engine you need to run, so if you can I’d pick up all of the Dressrosa cards in a set, as for none dressrosa I won’t be running any but if you do 3 cost brooks and the top end cards would be the best bet(kuzan 10 drop, gecko, aramaki) if you want to do the rev army build there is an argument for 8cost sabo

Wait how do I have 8 left with those swings? Brook needs 2 Don for 6 and 1 Don on each of the other two, means I’d be at 6 Don.

@the_lord_nick you're swinging with 6c brook like how you did. Just commiting 0 don to 3c brook at the end

@ wait are you talking about Lucci? I don’t have a 6c Brook in the list

​@@the_lord_nickin g2 you had a 6c brook on the board!

@@ChunkOnYTjust watched I don’t remember this game at all apparently

Look I used to run it, this meta is too fast now, need more power and spot removal

It happens lol He is playing a more meta-competitive deck than he views Rebecca, so hitting me once is whatever, getting me twice I can relate to the pain.

I can try been playing ranked as that had been recommended for a while, if I get some one sim I will showcase them, other wise I will be trying to stream later this week.

I will say that aramaki is really rough for Doffy to deal with as he likes to swing multiple 7s and an 8k blocker kind of puts a wrench in that plan plus he is guaranteed removal of at least one character a turn

@@dzali9406 nah couldn’t care less about Usopp but the new dressrosa cards got me excited for new Rebecca builds

So new Rebecca most likely won't be played in Rebecca, we just don't have way to use it on curve. Zoro will be insane for the deck, and kyros will be a 1-2 of. I think Secret Luffy will be insanely impactful so will Franky. It's hard to assess how good until we get them, but Zoro is the one I think will be the most impactful.

@@the_lord_nick Oh thanks for the quick reply. Do you think Zoro will replace the EB-01 Brooks or be played in addition to them? I'm still on the fence about dropping cash for a playset of Brooks since they cost so much now and I don't play black as much.

@ I don’t know, Zoro will be our premier removal option so I would guess you don’t need Brook as much

Yeah Enel has get much harder this set because his leader power is so strong at stalling end game. Most Katas I’ve ran into though are still heavily into the mom package and I think it is just weaker than other yellow options.

Thank you, Dan! I also like getting to chat with you when I see you at locals! I appreciate the kind words and thank you for the support!

PS Keep balling out on Smoker! He was my first deck back in the day and love to see your name pop up on the boards lol

@ hahah thanks brother! It was my first deck too! we’d love to have you back anytime you need a break from Becca ;)

Thank you I appreciate it!

Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you Chris I really appreciate it!

It actually punishes greedy decks as well, if they run a bunch of bricks and 0 cost events, probably also helps against pluffy since they're running the 1c event counters

For sure I don’t use the card and read it hastily, good catch!

That’s true the new event in 9 for Pluffy I hear talked about a ton and some folks might run more bricks to avoid on play 2ks due to BB, which would mean more 0 drop events and this cost them an extra card. It’s an interesting tech for sure