How to Play · One Piece

How to Play the One Piece Card Game

Bandai's hit anime TCG plays fast and aggressive. You pick a Leader, build a 50-card deck in their colours, and crash through their Life cards using a separate DON!! resource deck to power your crew.

Players2 players
Play Time20–30 minutes
DifficultyBeginner-friendly

Reduce your opponent's Leader Life to 0, then land one more point of damage on the same Leader to win the game.

Deck size

1 Leader card + a 50-card Main deck + a 10-card DON!! deck.

Card types

Leader
Your champion. Sits in the Leader area for the whole game and has a Power value, a Life value, and one or more colours that define your deck.
Character
Units you play onto the field. Each has a Cost, a Power, and a Counter value used to defend against attacks.
Event
One-shot spells with immediate effects. Discarded after use.
Stage
Persistent locations played to the Stage area with ongoing effects.
DON!!
The resource. DON!! cards are played from your DON!! deck to your Cost area to pay costs, and can be attached to a Leader or Character to give it +1000 Power for the turn.

Deck restrictions

  • Maximum 4 copies of any card with the same card number.
  • Every card in your Main deck must share at least one colour with your Leader.
  • Main deck must be exactly 50 cards. DON!! deck must be exactly 10 cards.
  1. Place your Leader face-up in the Leader area.
  2. Place your 10 DON!! cards face-down in the DON!! deck area.
  3. Shuffle your Main deck and offer it to your opponent for a cut.
  4. Determine the first player (rock-paper-scissors is standard).
  5. Take the top cards of your deck equal to your Leader's Life value and place them face-down as your Life cards.
  6. Draw 5 cards for your opening hand.

Starting hand

5 cards.

Mulligan

Once per game, before turn 1 begins, you may shuffle your entire starting hand back into your deck and draw 5 fresh cards. You only get one mulligan — keep the second hand.

Refresh
Set all your Rested cards back to Active. Return all attached DON!! to your Cost area.
Draw
Draw 1 card from your deck. The first player skips this step on turn 1.
DON!!
Add 2 DON!! cards from your DON!! deck to your Cost area, Active. The first player only adds 1 DON!! on turn 1.
Main
In any order: play Characters/Events/Stages by Resting DON!! to pay their cost, attach DON!! to boost Power, and declare attacks with your Leader or Active Characters against the opposing Leader or Rested Characters.
End
Resolve any end-of-turn effects, then pass play to your opponent.
  • When your Leader is attacked, you can discard Counter cards from your hand to add their Counter value to your Leader's Power for that one attack.
  • Damage that meets or exceeds your Power flips a Life card into your hand. Once Life is at 0, the next successful attack on your Leader wins the game.
  • Characters can't attack the turn they're played unless they have the Rush keyword.