I bought some cards from my local Target on opening day. Called my FLGS and they said they had 4 boxes of Romance Dawn left. Within an hour I walked into the store, asked for a box, and was told the manager wanted to keep all 4 remaining boxes (you know why... to scalp), so I walked away. A few months of not finding a single MSRP card later, even across 6 Targets and several game stores in my area, I sold everything and decided not to participate in this game. If you make cards impossible to find unless scalped, that's not a healthy game.
It’s crazy as someone playing digimon and hearing from my friends play one piece how different Bandai approach is. Like digimon had a scalper problem in the beginning too but Bandai rewaved the first two sets in the middle of the fourth set to make the prices go down. But in one piece Bandai is sure taking its time. Add to that they are focusing on one piece cuz it’s their gold goose so I’m worried about how the other games will fare.
To the OP, I also play both digimon and one piece as they are incredibly similar in game mechanics and I love both dearly. I am concerned for digimons future as idk if Bandai will continue to support digimon as much as one piece because it doesnt match its sales despite still having a good player count and dedicated fan base. Really hope Bandai doesnt end up sacrificing one game to focus on the other, the choice is theirs but i hope they listen to the fans/customers.
Nostalgia wore off for a lot of people who got in to digimon. Many people were off and on when it came to characters they knew vs newest enterirs of the series
@@AndrewBelmont- I wouldn't worry too much about the Digimon card game. It's still Bandai's second most popular card game right now. And it's currently the most lucrative branch of the franchise. They're way more likely to drop something like union arena, battle spirits and even dragon ball super if anything, recent news indicate that they have big plans for the Digimon card game. They're making a webcomic and plans to synchronize japanese and western releases by spring 2025.
Want to say, I found your channel a few days ago and have been binging your videos. Your production quality is stellar and so is your music choice for the background of your speaking (shout out to FE3H OST).
I do echo the sentiment that this is probably one of the best games on the block right now, but it's just impossible to recommend in good faith due to how steep cost of entry is.
As someone looking to get into One Piece TCG (my boss recently bought me ST-09), this was super informative. Definitely going to have shelve this for the time being with these prices and scarcity. Definitely subscribed now
Inflated prices? Overpriced promos that are keys to some decks? Hard to get into the game casually? Dude, this is literally the same problems that Vanguard has as well like wow! I didn't know Bandai can get in the same level as Bushiroad in terms of terrible marketing decisions but here we are XD.
Funny thing is, at least impo, that Vanguard (Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz) never had these problems back in the day. I remember lots of events (and i live in Greece, not the US) and promo material basically for free. Its sad that they are making bad decisions especially since they cancelled Buddyfight and had Dragonborne flop.
I was only able to start playing the game in paper last week since that's when my lgs held their first monthly tournament. The price of the game is also absurd right now, I payed more for my Garp meme deck than I did for full power unchained right before a ycs
This is just not true though, the only expensive cards that you truly need are Borsalino,Kat, Queen and Yamato. You're completely tripping if you're comparing this games prices to YGO. It's not even close.
Great eruption, Hina, rebbeca, kuzan, etc.. Charlotte cracker, 7 drop big mom, Charlotte brulee, sanji, etc... 5 drop Captain kid, 4 drop law, magellan, Paulie, kaido, etc.. All these cards are around 10 or so dollars. Add them up and decks are still $300 without the most expensive staples.
Why do people talking about specific cards like there’s only one or two colors to build a deck with? There’s other colors to play and choose from. Just proves everyone is meta driven just to win. If people were around the release of each set, you would’ve been able to acquire play sets of all these cards. The fact is, people are late to the game when One Piece was always hype
Every color is expensive is why people don't just go to other colors. Plus the meta is very rough twords rogue decks. Buying at the beginning of a sets release is good advice, but it's hard to tell that to people just joining the game for the first time or just picking up card games as a hobby. I want the hype to grow and for that there needs to be more product.
I Vanguard player getting into one piece when the Three Brothers trier deck comes out. The locale seen has been growing in one piece in the UK some friends have one-piece decks. This is no disrespect to other Bandai tcg but I hardly see any locals in the London area hosting Battle Spirits, Dragon Ball or Digmon. I only mostly see one piece.
yeah, the Digimon card is too old and developed at this point so new players can't easily join. The Dragon Ball card game died and go rebooted so no one trusts it. Battle Spirits Saga is weird and has awful products and no real audience. However, the one piece card game is uniquely a great game. It's got an easy to understand meta as well as mechanics. it's got amazing product. And it's got a huge community, because of how One Piece as a franchise is doing atm. If you're looking for the Three Brothers deck I recommend looking for which leader you want to build around and buy the needed non starter deck cards ahead of time.
I played DBSCG Master back during covid, and it was the most fun I've ever had in a card game. I loved it so much I didn't sell my Secret Rare when it was $600. Sure there was some broken stuff like Shugesh-Explosive Goku, but my biggest issue was with Bandai entirely. They didn't ship out promos for events, and had no incentive to compete. When they announced this game, I dismissed it as a fixed DBSCG. Then they released DBSCG again as Fusion World. There is no doubt in my mind that Bandai is going to shoot themselves in the foot later down the road. One Piece is insanely popular, but at $70 at my lgs a deck for the Three Brothers, that doesn't come with a full playset... thats scummy. The collectibility is good. The fact that I can't buy a pack (of 12 cards!) for less than $20 is not. Side not: the fact that they are banning cards because of their trigger effects is absolutely hilarious.
Funny, because every time I go online and try to find somewhere to buy some I find it's cheaper and easier to import Japanese cards instead, so I might as well just believe the game never came overseas...
Bandai gotta chill with ALL the card games. Union arena? No. BSS? No. Digimon? Yes. One Piece? Yes. Digimon and One Piece are the best card games to come out since magic pokemon and yugioh. Theyre already great but they could be really really great and hit the stratosphere. I really wish they would drop the other card games that we know will not last 10 years. I would much rather see them invest into games that will last and just keep those few.
Battle spirits saga is already 15 years old. It clearly has a decent following in Japan at least, so I see why they wouldn't drop that one. Union arena is more likely to get dropped imho because it's going to be much harder to sell a crossover card game
@@kanchomerocks12 Yeah, Union Area is going to be a hard sell because if you haven't seen the anime, you won't buy that product, which means you can't market all the cards to everyone. And if you want future support, good luck if that anime ends up not being popular.
If you look at the cost historically of MTG etc. $500 really isn't obsurd for a meta deck. Furthermore, we've just seen 2,560 players turn up at Utrecht for a hugely successful tournament. I agree with most of what you've said outside of it only being played by scalpers and that early sets need to be reprinted. Reprinting actual sets will harm the game - reprinting individual cards to make the meta more accessible will strengthen the core. Another LGS close to me has just prepped to start hosting One Piece each week. The growth is organic and explosive - the game is amazing. Wherever there is monetary opportunities there will be scalpers. That's just the way of the world. Great video, love the editing.
I feel like OP06 will be a slightly better format for newer players. Yamato is a really cheap and strong deck especially with the sky island support a winning list I saw had only like 7 SRs being enel and hody. Also reiju basically being entirely built out of the box gives a different strategy some legs although Queen definitely helps the deck. The future is bright and as things grow and change hopefully Bandai can pull their head out of the sand and actually meet demand.
I really don't know why these companies can't manage their games well. Because of your videos and the declining quality of YGO I got interested in the OP game (reading the manga as well) Well, in South Germany I can't buy ANY Starter Deck for the normal price. I have to pay at least twice as much. I literally want to give money to Bandai just to learn this game, but without supply there is no reason for me to buy anything. Horrible product management
@@jonathancox-ll6zl Missprint became worthless because they are so common now. It's also pretty common to open a set with all cards being only EX out of the box. Desastrous set structure combined with the reprint philosophy. Just watch the videos on this channel Compared to the OCG the TCG is a joke
@@thomashalbgottschalk8461 the ocg is a testing ground and Konami prob makes a lot less money from the ocg so the tcg carry’s the game money wise and the set structure isn’t bad some people can’t handle spend money on a card game. Ok I’ll admit magic is terrible
Just got into this game as a die hard fan of the series.. went with my brother to get some starter decks and play some games.. got the black Luffy and Yellow Yamato for myself and found myself frustrated with how underwhelming they felt.. But I have never been a TCG guy growing up but my brother always was so I blamed myself for just playing like ass, me being new and getting very unlucky draws/hands.. watching this video I got to 7:45 and literally GUT laughed so hard lmao I cannot believe that I happened to choose the two WORST starter decks I couldve bought lol.. I guess it makes me feel better knowing I may not be just complete ass at the game lol I did enjoy black luffy more cause yellow yamato just had some really bad triggers that were just not worth it..
Well good news is there's a new black luffy starter deck that's actually good and there's a green yellow yamato leader that's playable. While you might want to instead try something new, you can now actually play these strats, lmao
I want to love this card game and go to events for it but the price and player cap are the biggest gate keepers to a card game I've ever seen. It's a big shame as well since the card quality is top tier.
seems like most of your complains are addressed on DragonballFW, but we are just on 2 set but its gaining traction very quickly so its safe to assume they are going f it up that too
I just can't find any packs to even open, I have a life outside playing card games so if I wait a day or two after a restock or general release, it's already sold out again 😂
@MonkeyFightTCG yeah, I'll be sitting there refreshing their online page like a maniac waiting to pre order as fast as possible at work on my phone then I guess 🤣
@@MonkeyFightTCG In my experience, they keep most of the product to themselves to scalp later. That was my experience, and yes, I know it's JUST my experience, but that one experience ruined the ENTIRE game for me. Haven't bought (not for lack of stock anyway) any cards since.
I do not understand what Bandai is gaining from this... If we assumer it is to create hype, everything is sold out months before it comes out already and there is no increase in offering of products. Prices go up for second hand market not Bandai thus what the f is Bandai gaining from this ?
One day your lgs is going to order 500 boxes of OP-1 and it's going to get 500. Don't get rug pulled, sell your cards because the breakpoint in hype will be brutal.
the problem is Bandai also needs to cater for the secondary market and the chase created by the booster boxes. If reprints are too large or exceed secondary market consumption it will destroy the TCG like they did to Dragon Ball Super.
It's frustrating because the game is really fun! I like playing it! It's got good mechanics! But the finance bros are already stalking the Eastern OP06 tournament reports and buying up anything that even smells like it has potential. The only paper deck I can afford to run is Belo Betty, and she is nowhere near viable in a tournament so I don't even bother (and she's only cheap because the Eastern meta already showed she can't win consistently!)
Would be great if they didnt copy paste digimon's tcg template. Character card should be a wanted poster frame. While the event, trigger, stage cards are full of treasure map esque
Aye yo I see me, never thought that would happen haha. Great video, with some great points. I do have to say that Bandais top 64 and higher prizing is really good for One Piece. Really cool alt arts and the serial cards are 👌😘 Manga alts are also another highlight for One Piece. Devil fruit collection has potential to be a fantastic product, just needs to be done to be better quality
As a One Piece die hard fan I just hope this card game live to the expectation and BANDAI not making blunder. Maybe impossible to reach Yugioh or Pokémon tcg level but at least it still around after 10 years
Oh wow, even rhe Starter Decks are consistently being scalped? I thought Dragon Ball was bad in that regard, but even it only has a handful of its Starter Decks that got scalped historically. That one factoid is enough to keep me away forever. If Starter Decks were accessible in quantity and price, I would try One Piece out, just like most card games.
The game is just suffering from a ton of success WAY TOO MUCH SUCCESS. While I am happy to see it overtaking MTG and Yugioh but bandai definitely has issues to address.
A lot of this is PPG being the biggest NA organization that runs events and has product. Get your bag, but when you sign up for their patreon you can buy CASES at distribution prices. They get an absurd amount of produc. PPG has a seeming monopoly on the game in the west and that problem is only going to get worse. Bandai is letting whoever pick up this huge scene instead of developing something to help other organizations and lgs. My locals cant do regionals despite getting 20+ for months and having at least 100 people in the early who would play. That isnt a problem in yugioh because of the konami organized play infrastructure. I hate konami and quit yugioh but they at least handle this stuff with an NA office and hasnt results in a monopoly and product and organized events
Hey there - just bought 2 starter decks (8 & 9)yesterday and having a blast. How would you say to get into one piece and grow my collection and get better at the game?
Well look for finding local tournaments at local game stores and playing there. You'll also probably want a better deck. I recomend using a website like one piece meta to find a better list to learn from or base your own strategy off of. At least untill you learn more about how to build decks. If you want a larger collection without spending absurd amou ts money. I'd recomend either waiting for early sets to reprint or getting ahead and pre ordering sets that haven't released yet. Also remember you can buy individual cards through websites like tcgplayer or cardmarket. It's often cheaper than buying sealed product. I hope this advice helps!
@@MonkeyFightTCG This was amazing, thank you! I just bought the three captains deck and a booster box of awakening lol. I'm completely addicted. Will try to start playing multiple decks and see what Iike and then order singles as well! Thanks again! Keep posting videos on One Piece!
Can’t find any one piece cards. Only found a Yamato starter deck and got it cause I love tcg and want them all to succeed. I usually only do online but digimon and one piece are ones I don’t expect to see online card games for
@MonkeyFight TCG cool video. some thoughts and questions 1- i take it one piece is your n1 game to play currentely? 2- 03:19 where have i heard that before? 3- so Bandai has a huge track record of badly running card games and yet people, even informed ones, are still getting on board for new adventures? 4- long story short the games 1st year was a sucess in terms of sales and catching people´s attencion but there were some bad things as well in the design, tournament management and business preactices? 5- so is the game´sucess due to the quality of the game/gameplay or more because of people wanting to make money or because the manga has a huge following?
The TCG looks like so much fun, but its so expensive to get into it and tbh bandai seems to manipulate the market into their favour. So I will probably join the Pokemon TCG, because its just so much cheaper to get into at the moment and watch One piece from a far until I dont have to lay down 100 bucks for 2x starter decks, because the market is just like a ps5 in 2020
Pick one of those decks to build around and by a second one. Then look to see what other cards you'd need to upgrade them. You can also look for a local game store to attend tournaments. 11 and 13 luffy are the most competitve decks to go with. 13 is better but more expensive to fully build. There's an online simulator that's linked in the description you can use to test out decks.
I looked into getting into this game recently and it just seems impossible for new players even starter decks are over $70. How am I suppose to make a competent deck without dropping $400 dollars?
That’s all of Bandai card games. They are huge on monetization. They had a number of other games that are crazy expensive and they have no balance after some a small amount of time.
Game is cool , kinda a straight rip off of magic almost. Love the artwork but hate the fomo right now. Availability is possibly the worst ive ever seen a card game be at release. My region with 5 targets within an hour drive of me and 3 walmarts and over 4 million people literally dont get anything stocked near us. No game stores carry product. Ive called stores talked to restockers and they all say nah our distributor doesnt have any yet places in the middle of nebraska have them. Also the lack of local tournaments make it impossible for me and other of my friends who actually take the game seriously cant even fully advance their game skill.
i am trying to get to one piece and realy it's not good went they dont put all in the card in the starter decks like they did not reprint nami green for exemple in uta green the structure deck was so hard to get too everyone wanted to get it so it was supper hard to me to get it but now i need to find nami and kid which are expensive. So yes getting to one piece feel prety hard it's not at the level of Yugioh were every deck will cost most then 100$ but if they continue like that it wil not be good. Specialy if they continue to short print sets. Also Promo is so bad like they put reprint in promo too whitch are supper hard to get too. Also in my local we did not even get the promos card in the uta event we did have to wait to get the starter deck and then the promo whitch we get like 1 month later it's insane. The promos were so expensive.
@@MonkeyFightTCG Are you sure about that? The Digimon TCG had multiple 400+ player tournaments last month, the NA Finals even had over 900 players. That's more than any 2023 Digimon tournament had as far as I know.
I have an Oden leader card that is both green and red Whats that about? The Oden leader card that i see in ur videos has different splash art and color
Character tcgs always fail because they’re just not real tcgs lol it’s all hype and oooh look at the price right now. Character tcgs include : Dbz Naruto One peak soon
not to mention half of these people are just weebs. bandai has hype and thats it. these are same people that would buy all the universes beyond mtg shit because all it does is pander to a fan base
@@MonkeyFightTCG it's crazy how while on OP and DCG they've gone crazy with their meta and powercreep (at least they're calming down with the latter), with BSS they're so damn afraid of it that they keep releasing mediocre cards. At least set 3 was good and 4 so far looks decent. I just hope it's not too little too late by the time the Eva set comes out. Also I have 0 clue if union arena goes beyond dead on arrival here. I don't see any hype around it
"here's a deck I bought for fun for $600" Firstly, weird flex but okay Secondly if that's the cost of entry count me out chief, I'm never touching this game
It's not the cost of entry it was a max rarity variant of a what was at the time a $100 deck. The our pose of.my statement wasn't to flex but to explain how insane the pricing has gotten for the game.
I think he means that Bandai's way of handling the Digimon card game hasn't been the best. It stumbles a lot of the time in some way, either with balance issues or distribution issues. But I still don't think it's in as unhealthy of a position as the one piece card game currently is. Starter decks are currently still very affordable.
Right now those people selling the booster boxes online are the only ones keeping the booster packs in circulation. It's honestly disheartening seeing bandai's unwillingness to print such a popular set. Personally I just want to be able to play the game. But right now I'm having to choose between collecting and playing due to card scarcity. It's frustrating beyond belief as a customer as someone trying to form a fun hobby.
While gameplay is subjective i was refering to the actual physical aspect of these games. Such as the decline of print quality in magic and yugioh. The intentionally bad set structure of magic and yugioh. And the awful tournament prizing of magic and yugioh.
@@MonkeyFightTCG if this reply is about magic I agree that’s why I quit but if this is about ygo no set is even close to 300 not even a single meta staple is close to that
Well the cheapest version of katuri is $70 The cheapest version of borsalino is $40 The cheapest version of nami is $20 Etc.... Do you even live in reality? Horrible take
I didn't even know about this. Is there a simulator online like YGO, magic, and fusion world? Even a duelbooks equivalent I'm good with i want to try it out.
Nice peek into the game for outsiders. Coming from Yugioh which drove me off with all the new summons (everything AFTER 5D's is straight up dumb in my view) and stuff and i really enjoyed the tutorial App from One Piece, just want to get into a new TCG that has a bright future and isnt as cost expensive, so this is looking this far, but I take it with a grain of salt cause of all the negative things you said about the meta and the cost of meta decks and stuff... Really struggling with finding the next good TCG for me since it should also be budged friendly.
Why does everyone keep saying the prices are stopping people from playing. There are only about 6 cards above 40 dollars that aren't reprinted in a lower rarity. Everything else cost pennies. I get being frustrated not being able to open boxes but to say you can't play is wild imo.
There are way more than that. Plus when a ton of cards in you deck are $10 a piece it adds up quickly to hundreds of dollars. Sakazuki, enel, and purple luffy are all $500 decks. If you take away the cards that are over $30 each they're still $300 decks. Not everyone is wealthy and they shouldn't have to be to play a card game.
@@MonkeyFightTCGYour math is definitely off if we take out Borsalino and assume you're running GE at 4 kuzan at 4 and hina at 4 all at 20 dollars a pop that's nowhere near 300+. Also what other cards?
4 Great eruption $64 4 Hina $50 3 kuzan $60 4 rebbeca $32 4 rob Lucci $16 3 borsalino $8 2 Sabo $20 4 brannew $8 2 kaido $20 So it's about $270. So $300 with shipping, tax, and the extra cards
I come from an era you make the best of what you got with what you can until you can win the good stuff and usually your alt art and expensive stuff you ain’t trying to wear out no .way. The box winning and prizes is the spillage and rewards of rearing up the tourneys and the regionals. If you want to ball out and play on that level with money than it’s should be up to you to be able to. I never knock the guy cause he had the money to just buy the “good cards “. My skill gone beat you out that expensive deck you bought so it’s all good. Thats MY mentality, that’s how I was taught in Yugioh too. I notice a lot of these “expensive cards” have a common version that you can win with. And best believe the card game balanced becuase you don’t see them promo decks winning cause it’s not rigged like that. People need to stop complaining and pays I seen the cost of flesh n blood n quickly said you know what what this my kinda game so I’m excited to see this game go up. Flesh and blood could be a great game but I ain’t heard nothing bout it outside being expensive. This is a solid one from the looks of it. Much better than spending money on booze and drugs.
I bought some cards from my local Target on opening day. Called my FLGS and they said they had 4 boxes of Romance Dawn left. Within an hour I walked into the store, asked for a box, and was told the manager wanted to keep all 4 remaining boxes (you know why... to scalp), so I walked away. A few months of not finding a single MSRP card later, even across 6 Targets and several game stores in my area, I sold everything and decided not to participate in this game. If you make cards impossible to find unless scalped, that's not a healthy game.
It’s crazy as someone playing digimon and hearing from my friends play one piece how different Bandai approach is. Like digimon had a scalper problem in the beginning too but Bandai rewaved the first two sets in the middle of the fourth set to make the prices go down. But in one piece Bandai is sure taking its time. Add to that they are focusing on one piece cuz it’s their gold goose so I’m worried about how the other games will fare.
When they were doing Digimon they didn't have 5 other card games printing 😂 and Digimon isn't close to what optcg is sellimg
To the OP, I also play both digimon and one piece as they are incredibly similar in game mechanics and I love both dearly. I am concerned for digimons future as idk if Bandai will continue to support digimon as much as one piece because it doesnt match its sales despite still having a good player count and dedicated fan base. Really hope Bandai doesnt end up sacrificing one game to focus on the other, the choice is theirs but i hope they listen to the fans/customers.
Nostalgia wore off for a lot of people who got in to digimon. Many people were off and on when it came to characters they knew vs newest enterirs of the series
@@lifeunderthestarstvthat not the point . Point is Bandai isn’t fixing the scarcity for one piece
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I wouldn't worry too much about the Digimon card game. It's still Bandai's second most popular card game right now. And it's currently the most lucrative branch of the franchise. They're way more likely to drop something like union arena, battle spirits and even dragon ball super if anything, recent news indicate that they have big plans for the Digimon card game. They're making a webcomic and plans to synchronize japanese and western releases by spring 2025.
I wish it had an online game ngl.
There is an online simulator thats good.
it does
@@applegoblinjeans I'll only play this on an official game.
@@SparkZ009 You're definitely missing out by waiting for an official game. The simulator is automated.
@@SparkZ009 it's good for practice games and playing for free is great until bandai reprints cards.
Want to say, I found your channel a few days ago and have been binging your videos. Your production quality is stellar and so is your music choice for the background of your speaking (shout out to FE3H OST).
I do echo the sentiment that this is probably one of the best games on the block right now, but it's just impossible to recommend in good faith due to how steep cost of entry is.
Facts man.
As someone looking to get into One Piece TCG (my boss recently bought me ST-09), this was super informative. Definitely going to have shelve this for the time being with these prices and scarcity. Definitely subscribed now
Inflated prices? Overpriced promos that are keys to some decks? Hard to get into the game casually?
Dude, this is literally the same problems that Vanguard has as well like wow! I didn't know Bandai can get in the same level as Bushiroad in terms of terrible marketing decisions but here we are XD.
Oh, even worse. At least Vanguard trial decks are not underprinted to the point that a starter deck common staple Is 45$
Funny thing is, at least impo, that Vanguard (Buddyfight and Weiss Schwarz) never had these problems back in the day. I remember lots of events (and i live in Greece, not the US) and promo material basically for free. Its sad that they are making bad decisions especially since they cancelled Buddyfight and had Dragonborne flop.
I was only able to start playing the game in paper last week since that's when my lgs held their first monthly tournament. The price of the game is also absurd right now, I payed more for my Garp meme deck than I did for full power unchained right before a ycs
This is just not true though, the only expensive cards that you truly need are Borsalino,Kat, Queen and Yamato. You're completely tripping if you're comparing this games prices to YGO. It's not even close.
Great eruption, Hina, rebbeca, kuzan, etc..
Charlotte cracker, 7 drop big mom, Charlotte brulee, sanji, etc...
5 drop Captain kid, 4 drop law, magellan, Paulie, kaido, etc..
All these cards are around 10 or so dollars. Add them up and decks are still $300 without the most expensive staples.
Why do people talking about specific cards like there’s only one or two colors to build a deck with? There’s other colors to play and choose from. Just proves everyone is meta driven just to win.
If people were around the release of each set, you would’ve been able to acquire play sets of all these cards.
The fact is, people are late to the game when One Piece was always hype
Every color is expensive is why people don't just go to other colors. Plus the meta is very rough twords rogue decks.
Buying at the beginning of a sets release is good advice, but it's hard to tell that to people just joining the game for the first time or just picking up card games as a hobby.
I want the hype to grow and for that there needs to be more product.
@@MonkeyFightTCG Every color isn’t expensive though? It’s all based on the leader you decide to play and which cards best work for the deck
I'm late but this was a great analytical take of the game. Thanks for doing this!
I Vanguard player getting into one piece when the Three Brothers trier deck comes out. The locale seen has been growing in one piece in the UK some friends have one-piece decks. This is no disrespect to other Bandai tcg but I hardly see any locals in the London area hosting Battle Spirits, Dragon Ball or Digmon. I only mostly see one piece.
yeah, the Digimon card is too old and developed at this point so new players can't easily join. The Dragon Ball card game died and go rebooted so no one trusts it. Battle Spirits Saga is weird and has awful products and no real audience.
However, the one piece card game is uniquely a great game. It's got an easy to understand meta as well as mechanics. it's got amazing product. And it's got a huge community, because of how One Piece as a franchise is doing atm.
If you're looking for the Three Brothers deck I recommend looking for which leader you want to build around and buy the needed non starter deck cards ahead of time.
@@MonkeyFightTCG I be Building the black yellow Luffly looks easy to build
I played DBSCG Master back during covid, and it was the most fun I've ever had in a card game. I loved it so much I didn't sell my Secret Rare when it was $600. Sure there was some broken stuff like Shugesh-Explosive Goku, but my biggest issue was with Bandai entirely. They didn't ship out promos for events, and had no incentive to compete. When they announced this game, I dismissed it as a fixed DBSCG. Then they released DBSCG again as Fusion World. There is no doubt in my mind that Bandai is going to shoot themselves in the foot later down the road.
One Piece is insanely popular, but at $70 at my lgs a deck for the Three Brothers, that doesn't come with a full playset... thats scummy. The collectibility is good. The fact that I can't buy a pack (of 12 cards!) for less than $20 is not.
Side not: the fact that they are banning cards because of their trigger effects is absolutely hilarious.
Funny, because every time I go online and try to find somewhere to buy some I find it's cheaper and easier to import Japanese cards instead, so I might as well just believe the game never came overseas...
Exactly
Bandai gotta chill with ALL the card games. Union arena? No. BSS? No. Digimon? Yes. One Piece? Yes. Digimon and One Piece are the best card games to come out since magic pokemon and yugioh. Theyre already great but they could be really really great and hit the stratosphere. I really wish they would drop the other card games that we know will not last 10 years. I would much rather see them invest into games that will last and just keep those few.
Battle spirits saga is already 15 years old. It clearly has a decent following in Japan at least, so I see why they wouldn't drop that one. Union arena is more likely to get dropped imho because it's going to be much harder to sell a crossover card game
@@kanchomerocks12 Yeah, Union Area is going to be a hard sell because if you haven't seen the anime, you won't buy that product, which means you can't market all the cards to everyone. And if you want future support, good luck if that anime ends up not being popular.
If you look at the cost historically of MTG etc. $500 really isn't obsurd for a meta deck. Furthermore, we've just seen 2,560 players turn up at Utrecht for a hugely successful tournament.
I agree with most of what you've said outside of it only being played by scalpers and that early sets need to be reprinted. Reprinting actual sets will harm the game - reprinting individual cards to make the meta more accessible will strengthen the core.
Another LGS close to me has just prepped to start hosting One Piece each week. The growth is organic and explosive - the game is amazing.
Wherever there is monetary opportunities there will be scalpers. That's just the way of the world.
Great video, love the editing.
One Piece isn't just any TCG. Its backed and originated by the greatest/popular manga of ALL TIME!!!
the same manga that take until issue 700 to get interesting ive heard
@@manleyfgc7981 disagree. Their arcs are all unique. Of course some are better than others.
The show gets good very early around arlong park.
I feel like OP06 will be a slightly better format for newer players. Yamato is a really cheap and strong deck especially with the sky island support a winning list I saw had only like 7 SRs being enel and hody. Also reiju basically being entirely built out of the box gives a different strategy some legs although Queen definitely helps the deck. The future is bright and as things grow and change hopefully Bandai can pull their head out of the sand and actually meet demand.
Yes, the best part about Yamato is it's a yellow deck that doesn't need Katakuri.
(You still want to run katakuri)
I really don't know why these companies can't manage their games well. Because of your videos and the declining quality of YGO I got interested in the OP game (reading the manga as well)
Well, in South Germany I can't buy ANY Starter Deck for the normal price. I have to pay at least twice as much. I literally want to give money to Bandai just to learn this game, but without supply there is no reason for me to buy anything. Horrible product management
How do you think ygo is declining in quality
@@jonathancox-ll6zl Missprint became worthless because they are so common now. It's also pretty common to open a set with all cards being only EX out of the box. Desastrous set structure combined with the reprint philosophy. Just watch the videos on this channel
Compared to the OCG the TCG is a joke
@@thomashalbgottschalk8461 the ocg is a testing ground and Konami prob makes a lot less money from the ocg so the tcg carry’s the game money wise and the set structure isn’t bad some people can’t handle spend money on a card game. Ok I’ll admit magic is terrible
Just got into this game as a die hard fan of the series.. went with my brother to get some starter decks and play some games.. got the black Luffy and Yellow Yamato for myself and found myself frustrated with how underwhelming they felt.. But I have never been a TCG guy growing up but my brother always was so I blamed myself for just playing like ass, me being new and getting very unlucky draws/hands.. watching this video I got to 7:45 and literally GUT laughed so hard lmao I cannot believe that I happened to choose the two WORST starter decks I couldve bought lol.. I guess it makes me feel better knowing I may not be just complete ass at the game lol I did enjoy black luffy more cause yellow yamato just had some really bad triggers that were just not worth it..
Well good news is there's a new black luffy starter deck that's actually good and there's a green yellow yamato leader that's playable.
While you might want to instead try something new, you can now actually play these strats, lmao
I wish it was cheaper
we all do
I want to love this card game and go to events for it but the price and player cap are the biggest gate keepers to a card game I've ever seen. It's a big shame as well since the card quality is top tier.
seems like most of your complains are addressed on DragonballFW, but we are just on 2 set but its gaining traction very quickly so its safe to assume they are going f it up that too
I just can't find any packs to even open, I have a life outside playing card games so if I wait a day or two after a restock or general release, it's already sold out again 😂
try asking your local game stores for a pre-order. it's not much, but its about the only thing you can do until bandai gets their act together.
@MonkeyFightTCG yeah, I'll be sitting there refreshing their online page like a maniac waiting to pre order as fast as possible at work on my phone then I guess 🤣
You have to go in person usually. But i understand how hard it can be to find time for that.
@@MonkeyFightTCG In my experience, they keep most of the product to themselves to scalp later. That was my experience, and yes, I know it's JUST my experience, but that one experience ruined the ENTIRE game for me. Haven't bought (not for lack of stock anyway) any cards since.
I do not understand what Bandai is gaining from this... If we assumer it is to create hype, everything is sold out months before it comes out already and there is no increase in offering of products. Prices go up for second hand market not Bandai thus what the f is Bandai gaining from this ?
they have 0 clue how to run a game long term. their history shows this pretty clear. bandai gets hype then they run it into the ground
Love the Three Houses music in the background!
I'm a big fire emblem fan and it fit really well here. I'm glad someone recognized it!
One day your lgs is going to order 500 boxes of OP-1 and it's going to get 500. Don't get rug pulled, sell your cards because the breakpoint in hype will be brutal.
This video was the highlight of my day. Love your OPTCG vids, thanks!
the problem is Bandai also needs to cater for the secondary market and the chase created by the booster boxes. If reprints are too large or exceed secondary market consumption it will destroy the TCG like they did to Dragon Ball Super.
I need bandai to print waayyyy more cards please
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The game looks really cool. I want to try this out but idk why I’d feel weird. I haven’t played a card game since I was a kid
lol that fire emblem music tho
It's frustrating because the game is really fun! I like playing it! It's got good mechanics!
But the finance bros are already stalking the Eastern OP06 tournament reports and buying up anything that even smells like it has potential. The only paper deck I can afford to run is Belo Betty, and she is nowhere near viable in a tournament so I don't even bother (and she's only cheap because the Eastern meta already showed she can't win consistently!)
You should review Lorcana, Shadowverse, maybe preview the upcoming Star Wars game as well. You always make good content
I don't see Lorcana having longevity except in very niche fandom corners. It's quite uninspired.
I wanna get into this game when/if it chills out. I’m already into Lorcana and can’t get into another game with elusive packs.. 😅
Would be great if they didnt copy paste digimon's tcg template. Character card should be a wanted poster frame. While the event, trigger, stage cards are full of treasure map esque
Aye yo I see me, never thought that would happen haha.
Great video, with some great points. I do have to say that Bandais top 64 and higher prizing is really good for One Piece. Really cool alt arts and the serial cards are 👌😘
Manga alts are also another highlight for One Piece.
Devil fruit collection has potential to be a fantastic product, just needs to be done to be better quality
They need to flood the market with starter decks or it will die.
Well, if I can't easily buy boxes at MSRP, I guess I'm not playing 🤷
As a One Piece die hard fan I just hope this card game live to the expectation and BANDAI not making blunder. Maybe impossible to reach Yugioh or Pokémon tcg level but at least it still around after 10 years
Hey UVS/MHA was on the top 10. Thats cool
Oh wow, even rhe Starter Decks are consistently being scalped? I thought Dragon Ball was bad in that regard, but even it only has a handful of its Starter Decks that got scalped historically.
That one factoid is enough to keep me away forever. If Starter Decks were accessible in quantity and price, I would try One Piece out, just like most card games.
The game is just suffering from a ton of success
WAY TOO MUCH SUCCESS. While I am happy to see it overtaking MTG and Yugioh but bandai definitely has issues to address.
A lot of this is PPG being the biggest NA organization that runs events and has product. Get your bag, but when you sign up for their patreon you can buy CASES at distribution prices. They get an absurd amount of produc. PPG has a seeming monopoly on the game in the west and that problem is only going to get worse. Bandai is letting whoever pick up this huge scene instead of developing something to help other organizations and lgs. My locals cant do regionals despite getting 20+ for months and having at least 100 people in the early who would play. That isnt a problem in yugioh because of the konami organized play infrastructure. I hate konami and quit yugioh but they at least handle this stuff with an NA office and hasnt results in a monopoly and product and organized events
This a very interesting point I'll have to look more into.
Thanks for the information!
If they don’t ramp up card production this game is going to die fast. *WE.DO.NOT.HAVE.ENOUGH.PRODUCT. ON. SHELVES.*
Hey there - just bought 2 starter decks (8 & 9)yesterday and having a blast. How would you say to get into one piece and grow my collection and get better at the game?
Well look for finding local tournaments at local game stores and playing there. You'll also probably want a better deck. I recomend using a website like one piece meta to find a better list to learn from or base your own strategy off of. At least untill you learn more about how to build decks.
If you want a larger collection without spending absurd amou ts money. I'd recomend either waiting for early sets to reprint or getting ahead and pre ordering sets that haven't released yet. Also remember you can buy individual cards through websites like tcgplayer or cardmarket. It's often cheaper than buying sealed product.
I hope this advice helps!
@@MonkeyFightTCG This was amazing, thank you! I just bought the three captains deck and a booster box of awakening lol. I'm completely addicted. Will try to start playing multiple decks and see what Iike and then order singles as well! Thanks again! Keep posting videos on One Piece!
Can’t find any one piece cards. Only found a Yamato starter deck and got it cause I love tcg and want them all to succeed.
I usually only do online but digimon and one piece are ones I don’t expect to see online card games for
@MonkeyFight TCG cool video. some thoughts and questions
1- i take it one piece is your n1 game to play currentely?
2- 03:19 where have i heard that before?
3- so Bandai has a huge track record of badly running card games and yet people, even informed ones, are still getting on board for new adventures?
4- long story short the games 1st year was a sucess in terms of sales and catching people´s attencion but there were some bad things as well in the design, tournament management and business preactices?
5- so is the game´sucess due to the quality of the game/gameplay or more because of people wanting to make money or because the manga has a huge following?
The TCG looks like so much fun, but its so expensive to get into it and tbh bandai seems to manipulate the market into their favour.
So I will probably join the Pokemon TCG, because its just so much cheaper to get into at the moment and watch One piece from a far until I dont have to lay down 100 bucks for 2x starter decks, because the market is just like a ps5 in 2020
8:59 Why you gotta hurt me with the only Secret Lair I've been interested in ever? I just wanna build a Gallifrey Stands deck. :(
Beacuse every secret lair is an objectively bad product
I want to learn to play. Bought starter decks 8,9,11,12, and 13 just got. Should I go buy a second 13 starter? What should I do next?
Pick one of those decks to build around and by a second one. Then look to see what other cards you'd need to upgrade them. You can also look for a local game store to attend tournaments.
11 and 13 luffy are the most competitve decks to go with. 13 is better but more expensive to fully build.
There's an online simulator that's linked in the description you can use to test out decks.
I looked into getting into this game recently and it just seems impossible for new players even starter decks are over $70. How am I suppose to make a competent deck without dropping $400 dollars?
That’s all of Bandai card games. They are huge on monetization. They had a number of other games that are crazy expensive and they have no balance after some a small amount of time.
@@MNtoCali Not true, Digimon is one of the cheapest TCGs out there, you can typically build at least one crazy good meta deck for around 60 bucks.
Incredible quality video, love it.
HIghly expensive
Too much scalpers
OP TCG Fans: Ugh this new leader Moria is so annoying and toxis using the graveyard as second hand
Yu-Gi-Oh Fans: First time?
Do you believe current tournaments give decent prizing?
Yes. Both on the local and on the regional level
Game is cool , kinda a straight rip off of magic almost. Love the artwork but hate the fomo right now. Availability is possibly the worst ive ever seen a card game be at release. My region with 5 targets within an hour drive of me and 3 walmarts and over 4 million people literally dont get anything stocked near us. No game stores carry product. Ive called stores talked to restockers and they all say nah our distributor doesnt have any yet places in the middle of nebraska have them. Also the lack of local tournaments make it impossible for me and other of my friends who actually take the game seriously cant even fully advance their game skill.
i am trying to get to one piece and realy it's not good went they dont put all in the card in the starter decks like they did not reprint nami green for exemple in uta green the structure deck was so hard to get too everyone wanted to get it so it was supper hard to me to get it but now i need to find nami and kid which are expensive. So yes getting to one piece feel prety hard it's not at the level of Yugioh were every deck will cost most then 100$ but if they continue like that it wil not be good. Specialy if they continue to short print sets. Also Promo is so bad like they put reprint in promo too whitch are supper hard to get too. Also in my local we did not even get the promos card in the uta event we did have to wait to get the starter deck and then the promo whitch we get like 1 month later it's insane. The promos were so expensive.
19:10 What do you mean? The Digimon TCG is doing relatively okay.
It's dropped quite a bit in sales from where it used to be. It's got a shrinking player base combined with shrinking sales.
@@MonkeyFightTCG Are you sure about that? The Digimon TCG had multiple 400+ player tournaments last month, the NA Finals even had over 900 players. That's more than any 2023 Digimon tournament had as far as I know.
I have an Oden leader card that is both green and red
Whats that about? The Oden leader card that i see in ur videos has different splash art and color
There's multiple different oden leaders
Character tcgs always fail because they’re just not real tcgs lol it’s all hype and oooh look at the price right now.
Character tcgs include :
Dbz
Naruto
One peak soon
not to mention half of these people are just weebs. bandai has hype and thats it. these are same people that would buy all the universes beyond mtg shit because all it does is pander to a fan base
One Piece Card Game =
The Real Money Rewarding Card Game
12:52 Konami
Another MonkeyFight W video
Honestly all this video makes me think that after Digimon and Battle Spirits, I want nothing to do with Ban Dai again
Yeah Bandai needs to step up their game or they'll eventually drop the ball on this game too.
@@MonkeyFightTCG it's crazy how while on OP and DCG they've gone crazy with their meta and powercreep (at least they're calming down with the latter), with BSS they're so damn afraid of it that they keep releasing mediocre cards. At least set 3 was good and 4 so far looks decent. I just hope it's not too little too late by the time the Eva set comes out. Also I have 0 clue if union arena goes beyond dead on arrival here. I don't see any hype around it
Union arena might do okay, just from collectors. But I don't think it'll do anything as a competitive game.
"here's a deck I bought for fun for $600"
Firstly, weird flex but okay
Secondly if that's the cost of entry count me out chief, I'm never touching this game
It's not the cost of entry it was a max rarity variant of a what was at the time a $100 deck.
The our pose of.my statement wasn't to flex but to explain how insane the pricing has gotten for the game.
Is the digimon 2020 card game failing or are you 🤔 talking about the og digimon card game?
I think he means that Bandai's way of handling the Digimon card game hasn't been the best. It stumbles a lot of the time in some way, either with balance issues or distribution issues. But I still don't think it's in as unhealthy of a position as the one piece card game currently is. Starter decks are currently still very affordable.
Op05 is the most boring meta. Looking to cash out in op06, gonna sell the whole case.
Right now those people selling the booster boxes online are the only ones keeping the booster packs in circulation. It's honestly disheartening seeing bandai's unwillingness to print such a popular set. Personally I just want to be able to play the game. But right now I'm having to choose between collecting and playing due to card scarcity. It's frustrating beyond belief as a customer as someone trying to form a fun hobby.
Poorly designed card game surviving off the hype the IP has generated in recent years
True
20000%
4c rebecca ban? I'm out.
I decided to stop collecting One Piece, its just to expensive.
Queen is bad.....but yugioh engines are god awful
What cards would you say will be more valuable in the future of this game?
Everything if there's no reprints
@@MonkeyFightTCG Lol I guess thats true
this thing will be dead 2 years tops. bandai can milk their ip thats all theyre good at. once it gets too big they always mismanage
It will surpass Pokémon and magic
lol
NA is dead
Bro really just said yu gi oh and magic are declining in quality which is not true cause I play all 3 one piece is the least engageing of all of them
While gameplay is subjective i was refering to the actual physical aspect of these games.
Such as the decline of print quality in magic and yugioh. The intentionally bad set structure of magic and yugioh. And the awful tournament prizing of magic and yugioh.
@@MonkeyFightTCG ok the prizing is terrible but the set structure in ygo at least is not terrible but in magic that’s a different story
Alright have fun buying another premuim set for $300 a box where every card is upshifted to mythic
@@MonkeyFightTCG if this reply is about magic I agree that’s why I quit but if this is about ygo no set is even close to 300 not even a single meta staple is close to that
Blah blah blah 😭😭😭
Cope
One piece doesn't have a scalper problem, you can use cheap versions of the card... Horrible take
Well the cheapest version of katuri is $70
The cheapest version of borsalino is $40
The cheapest version of nami is $20
Etc....
Do you even live in reality? Horrible take
Nice video
comment for the algorithm lmao
I'll allow it XD
we make our own interaction here
I didn't even know about this. Is there a simulator online like YGO, magic, and fusion world? Even a duelbooks equivalent I'm good with i want to try it out.
Nice peek into the game for outsiders. Coming from Yugioh which drove me off with all the new summons (everything AFTER 5D's is straight up dumb in my view) and stuff and i really enjoyed the tutorial App from One Piece, just want to get into a new TCG that has a bright future and isnt as cost expensive, so this is looking this far, but I take it with a grain of salt cause of all the negative things you said about the meta and the cost of meta decks and stuff... Really struggling with finding the next good TCG for me since it should also be budged friendly.
Bro that is def my "bens cardworld" reddit post hahaha I love it
Can you review TerraFyte next?
Why does everyone keep saying the prices are stopping people from playing. There are only about 6 cards above 40 dollars that aren't reprinted in a lower rarity. Everything else cost pennies. I get being frustrated not being able to open boxes but to say you can't play is wild imo.
There are way more than that. Plus when a ton of cards in you deck are $10 a piece it adds up quickly to hundreds of dollars. Sakazuki, enel, and purple luffy are all $500 decks. If you take away the cards that are over $30 each they're still $300 decks.
Not everyone is wealthy and they shouldn't have to be to play a card game.
@@MonkeyFightTCGYour math is definitely off if we take out Borsalino and assume you're running GE at 4 kuzan at 4 and hina at 4 all at 20 dollars a pop that's nowhere near 300+. Also what other cards?
4 Great eruption $64
4 Hina $50
3 kuzan $60
4 rebbeca $32
4 rob Lucci $16
3 borsalino $8
2 Sabo $20
4 brannew $8
2 kaido $20
So it's about $270. So $300 with shipping, tax, and the extra cards
I come from an era you make the best of what you got with what you can until you can win the good stuff and usually your alt art and expensive stuff you ain’t trying to wear out no .way. The box winning and prizes is the spillage and rewards of rearing up the tourneys and the regionals. If you want to ball out and play on that level with money than it’s should be up to you to be able to. I never knock the guy cause he had the money to just buy the “good cards “. My skill gone beat you out that expensive deck you bought so it’s all good. Thats MY mentality, that’s how I was taught in Yugioh too. I notice a lot of these “expensive cards” have a common version that you can win with. And best believe the card game balanced becuase you don’t see them promo decks winning cause it’s not rigged like that. People need to stop complaining and pays I seen the cost of flesh n blood n quickly said you know what what this my kinda game so I’m excited to see this game go up. Flesh and blood could be a great game but I ain’t heard nothing bout it outside being expensive. This is a solid one from the looks of it. Much better than spending money on booze and drugs.
If you buy a pack it is just 5$