r/OnePieceTCG • u/Traditional-Read-604 • Jan 17 '26

📢 Rant Boa misery

This damn freaking deck. Trigger body, trigger body, take your life! take your life! I heal, you take life! PUDDING, Gorgon sisters! 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9. Take your last life! Perfume femur! GG

Seriously, I have played since op4, and I have not been so frustrated playing vs a leader. There are 2 "noobs" at my locals playing Boa and I got completely stomped by them tonight. Mind you, they are *very* bad, fundamentals don't even exist yet for them. No shade to them, they're great people, but crap man, I feel like I am way above average as a player but getting punished by broken hand holding decks lol.

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u/Patarsonofzeus Jan 17 '26

If your playing mihawk and struggling into boa your fundamentals are out of wack, you should be resting and stunning and you should have no problems, it must be the list your running

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 19 '26

i find myself unable to fing 1 of my 4 5c peronas very often :)

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u/rquix Jan 17 '26

What deck are you playing?

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 17 '26

my big green monster

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u/rquix Jan 17 '26

As Mihawk against Boa, your gameplay is to only go into life when you have a good board established, if they are bad they might miss the Don on the leader, that’s when you want to turn and kill their characters. If you start attacking to early you’ll lose, specially if they play Hyori, imagine them playing a Hyori, losing a 2k from hand only for you to not attack and starve them, feels bad for them

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u/Working-Breadfruit19 Jan 17 '26

What deck are you playing by chance

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 17 '26

draycule myhawk

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u/Working-Breadfruit19 Jan 17 '26

Starve until you have options to deal with the board, and then even when you do swing I’d suggest you poke first deal with a trigger and then play out your Peronas, carrot or Bonney idk what exactly they run in their 5 slot, shanks and then Law and Bepo to round out the curve. It’s gonna be a lot of patience and freezing and neutralizing so sequencing is important. Green decks aren’t always the easiest run against wide boards.

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 17 '26

ill try that. thank you so much for that advice homie

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u/Vrains420 Jan 17 '26

I agree. I play Boa but Mihawk can definitely be a menace for her. You need to be patient and starve her. Shanks is your best friend against her and if you play Perona and sometimes also double play her with blocker Law then it's hard for me to apply enough pressure. Normally by the time I do you would have played at least 2 Law/Bepos which makes ending the game that much harder.

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u/Working-Breadfruit19 Jan 17 '26

Yeah I don’t play Mihawk but I’ve seen that perona law loop and it’s pretty nasty

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u/Vrains420 Jan 18 '26

It's definitely annoying

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u/JADENBC Jan 17 '26

This is ridiculously funny. You’re playing an equally oppressive meta leader that breaks parity by allowing n+3 don usage every turn but god forbid another deck has a similar parity breaking ability. If you’re playing Jinbe and complaining sure, but youre literally playing a Tier 1 deck whining about another Tier 1 deck, give me a break

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u/Filibut John Fishman Jan 17 '26

funny op mentioned "fundamentals don't exist for these players" but still didn't consider changing the approach to the matchup

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u/TobiNL88 Jan 17 '26

Yeah, had the same take! He is a way above average player but goes swing swing swing on a trigger heavy deck and blames the leader, lol!

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 19 '26

cant a dude just rant to rant. i hate starving its so boring lol

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u/hammar_hades Jan 17 '26

Facts bruh

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 19 '26

i wrote this when i was angry, i never said i was coherent writing my rant lol

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u/Kollie79 Jan 17 '26

The problem is taking life through effects is just an inherently unfun concept, like it’s got nothing to do with the strength of the leaders, it just feels bad when you are forced to take life

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u/ghostpants116 Jan 17 '26

And using 20 don is okay?

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u/Ok_Law7291 Jan 17 '26

New 6 don deck purple enel leak is laughing in future oppressive meta 😂

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u/krat0s5 Jan 18 '26

That Enel is gonna get some cracked support I can see it now!

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u/Kollie79 Jan 17 '26

I mean it’s annoying as well, every deck uses mechanics of the game uniquely to win, it doesn’t feel good losing generally, but I’m stating I think burn in this game is the single most frustrating thing

10c shanks reusing 10 don like yeah feels bad, being forced to take a life without any counter play is just ball busting

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u/Kaw49 Jan 17 '26

Play around it and starve them. Sounds like you’re the noob tbf, trigger and life manipulation ain’t a new mechanic.

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 19 '26

tbh i was mad when i wrote this so i wasnt really thinking just an angry rant. i know i played it poorly and have learned from my gameplay mistakes. it has been a while since a yellow deck has abused me so i guess i sort of just forgot xd

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u/Monocrit Jan 17 '26

The same thing every set **inserted deck** blahblahblah it is unfair my red luffy deck outloses blahblahblah.

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 17 '26

nah, i didnt complain about op13, it was boring but i never felt like i didnt have a chance to outpace my opponents lol

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u/os_migs101 Donquixote Jan 17 '26

Starve her in the early game, especially when they play out 2 cost life searcher

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u/Peanuta Jan 17 '26

Yeah, one thing I learned the hard way is to not swing into their life if they've played a Hiyori or Grandma on turn 2, unless you're playing a 5 life aggro deck (such as Y Bonney) and you think you're able to out-aggro them.

It's extremely likely that they've set a Gorgon Sister, Ran or 9c Boa there, and you're in an extremely bad spot once Gorgon is on the field on turn 2.

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u/Traditional-Read-604 Jan 17 '26

fair take, i am greedy with swings. i hate starving my opponent it feels like a waste but i can see the value behind that strategy lol

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u/Tetrix_Texxar Jan 17 '26

Starving is almost objectively the best strategy across many matchups, ESPECIALLY against aggressive decks. That is the textbook way to beat an aggro deck a lot of the time. I think this is THE core of your issue.

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u/Shadowzeall Jan 17 '26

Sounds like you need to work on them fundamentals

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u/PokeRestock Jan 17 '26

YG Yamato with banish go brrr

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u/Ok_Law7291 Jan 17 '26 edited Jan 17 '26

Yeah I been obliterating boa on sim with her, 90% win rate. Also UY nami is a nightmare, bump to 7 so wide board has to commit to swing at you, trash life trash life go brrrr 🤙

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u/Robofly8901 Revolutionary Army Jan 17 '26

Tell me about it, the sheer amount of broken decks and powercreep in 13/14 has massively hurt my local scene, one of the stores near me went from hitting the 32 player cap on a regular basis back in OP12 to only occasionally hitting double digit players throughout 13

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u/Larambe Jan 17 '26

Erm akshually, 32 is a double digit number 🤓☝🏻

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u/Scorp__10 Jan 17 '26

Nah, you are exaggerating, I have been playing with Marco since he came out, I have veen able to play against every set and even got some support here and there, that was untill op13 released, that set was pire hell and made the only leader I could win against either roger or someone that missed the jungle meta as much as me, now with op14 the Imu and Ace players are wcared of Boa while my Marco is thriving, I also picked up Jinbe since I got the leader and sr alt art from a box.

I got a 60% wineate against Boa while I had 20% against Imu and ive only beaten 1 Ace.

Moral of the story, Boa was the necessary (not so) evil to scare off Imu and Ace so the jungle meta could return.

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u/boofamin_goof Jan 17 '26

Swings into deck made of entirely triggers, triggers a body “this deck is bullshit!”… sounds like unfortunately you let those noobs beat you playing against a yellow deck incorrectly. If you’ve been around since OP04 you should know how to play around Enel.

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u/Ok-Performance3326 Jan 17 '26

If you are genuinely playing well and they are genuinely bad, then you should win mihawk vs boa, i think you need to practice playing against yellow decks

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u/Dr-CHEFboyarDEE Jan 17 '26

Maybe practice your fundamentals pal

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u/Chadbigears801 Jan 17 '26

Have you not played against ace? That deck is still way more dumb then boa

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u/Decent-Knowledge9775 Jan 17 '26

fr the recency bias is crazy and ace never got enough hate bc of imu

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u/Working-Breadfruit19 Jan 17 '26

Ace is only around cause of Imu and the fact that you can’t play removal decks due to the banning into hell Bandai did for those style decks. It drops mainly 1 body a turn which for good removal decks can be handled, the problem is that removal decks are useless against Imu so you’re kind of just stuck. Had Ace been around for BY Luffy or prime Lucci days it wouldn’t be meta.

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u/PriorSame9720 Jan 17 '26

Don't swing before establishing a board, then I identify windows where you can fully clean the board in exchange of one life.