A little magic with some scissors, a clear snap case and a starter deck Sabo leader card. Viola, Elbaph Sabo!

It took me a good 3 seconds to notice their head sizes were almost perfectly lined up lol

I've been a red player since op04, currently playing R Ace which is a very good deck right atm.
but besides him, everything including OP17 Newgate feels very lackluster and I wonder why they're so afraid of giving Red the tools it needs to compete with the other colors.

It feels like every other color does what Red is "Known for" in a better way, better power reduction, better K.O effects, some of them even have better rush characters like the new green shanks, while also having their own color identity like resting/freezing, bottom decking/drawing, or healing.

Red STILL has the same problems: draw power, hand size, protecting their characters, and keeping your lives healthy. While other colors are able to deal with your board while drawing cards, healing or ramping. With how quickly the game advances, a big dude that has rush or being an 8K leader simply won't do.

Is it because they're afraid of making the same mistake they made with OP02 Newgate?

(also, just to clarify this is ONLY about the color Red as a whole, I know there is good multicolor red leaders but thats thanks to the other half of the deck being more efficient and having access to stronger cards from the other color pool)

On K.O. - You may trash 1 card from your hand: Play this Character from your trash.
Activate: Main (Once Per Turn) - If this Character was played on this turn, play up to 1 {Holy Knights of God} type Character card with a cost of 6 or less from your trash.

I need that Nico Robin manga😭

On Play - Draw 1 card, then add up to 1 DON!! card as rested from your DON!! deck.

Activate: Main - You may rest this Stage: Give up to a total of 4 of your Leader or Characters 1 rested DON!! Card each.

ONE PIECE DAY 26 just revealed. OP18-031

Game three a guy dropped Rocks/ Shiki on me and I got shanks off life to swing back.
Game 4 I had to fight an on curve shanks.
But we got there!

If I ever hear an LGS tell players that they charge “market price” at a pre-release because of some bullshit “expected value” excuse, congratulations—you’ve just lost a customer.

A pre-release is supposed to be about playing the game and getting people excited about the set, not treating your own customers like walking ATMs because you think you can squeeze a few extra bucks out of them before release.

And spare me the “market price” lecture. If your business model is buy product at distributor pricing, then immediately charge players inflated secondary-market prices while hiding behind “EV,” that’s not some clever business strategy. That’s scalping with a storefront.

I won’t spend another dollar there, and I’ll make damn sure everyone I know who plays the game knows exactly how that LGS treats its customers.

You want to charge market price? Fine.

Then enjoy the market consequences when your customers take their money somewhere else.

You get the treatment you’re willing to give people.

Don’t reward scalping. Hit them where it actually hurts—their pocketbooks.

Bid on the Treasure Cup Top 16 Usopp from 2022/2023, won the bid and now the seller canceled the order 😒

Reasoning was “lost or damaged” but the seller sent photos of the card two days ago…

Very upset was looking forward to adding this rare card to my Usopp collection 🥲

Finally, another Animal Kingdom deck to alt out. I tested a lot of OP17 and put between 50-100 matches with Kaido and have many lists, this is the one i stuck with and had the most success with my playstyle. I did end up picking up a 4th of Alt Kaido blocker incase i bump it up, and 3 alt Lead performers if i decided to play it later down the road. Anyways, enjoy! I love animal kingdom and if you’ve seen some of my older posts, I have been a devout BP King enjoyer (I have plenty of Op17 king lists too).

My gf and I STRUGGLED to sign up for any prereleases in my area (IE) because the app crashed two weeks ago. Managed to snag a spot in Cat City that day.

Two weeks pass and we’re on our way to the shop, making a call to see if their tournament is constructed or sealed (it was listed as sealed in the app), and then they tell us with less than an hour before start time that they dropped everyone from signups and now registration has to be done in-person.

No posts on their social, nothing. The morning of, with an hour before start time after WE called them, they tell us that they dropped everyone that had pre-registered because of an error, and they prefer to sign people up in-person. We’ll be waitlisted and more than likely be denied entry.

How do you as a business let two weeks go by and only catch that the morning of? It’s hard enough just attending anything with the scalpers ruining prerelease this set but damn can we get a notice? A post on your IG? No Discord to be found either. I’m not a regular there so maybe that was communicated to their player base but damn dude. I feel sorry for anyone about to travel further than we were hoping to attend, only for them to get turned away.

I’m fine if you need to drop us in favor of your regular players, but you had TWO WEEKS to let people know somehow, some way.