Shanks OP17-020 deck: decklist and guide (November 2026)

Shanks OP17-020 is the green Red-Haired Pirates Leader and the tempo deck of the Standard format: it keeps your opponent's Characters rested so they can neither attack nor block, then finishes with Shanks OP17-022. In this guide you have the Leader's exact text, how the deck plays, the list that won an online tournament on 22 October 2026, the key cards, possible changes, mulligans and matchups.

Data from tournaments and online games from late August to 6 November 2026. Shanks is in tier 2 of our tier list of the best One Piece TCG decks.

What the Shanks OP17-020 Leader does

It is a green Leader with 5 Life and 5000 power, with the Slash attribute and the The Four Emperors/Red-Haired Pirates type. Its official English text reads:

"[Activate: Main] [Once Per Turn] You may trash 1 card from your hand or rest 1 of your DON!! cards: Up to 1 of your opponent's rested Characters will not become active in your opponent's next Refresh Phase."

In plain terms: once per turn, in your Main Phase, you trash a card from your hand or rest a DON!!, and choose one of your opponent's rested Characters. That Character doesn't become active in their next Refresh Phase. A rested Character can't attack or block, and you can attack it. The Characters that attacked you on the previous turn are still rested on yours, so there is almost always a target.

How to play Shanks OP17-020: early, mid and late game

Shanks wins on tempo: almost all of its cards rest your opponent's Characters, and the Leader keeps one of them that way for an extra turn. Your opponent loses attackers and Blockers, and you take advantage of the gap.

Early game (turns 1 to 3)

• Turns 1 and 2: Limejuice or the event Are You That Afraid of the New Era?!! to search. Crone Oli protects your board from your opponent's effects.
• From turn one, use the Leader on the Character that attacked you: it is still rested on your turn, so it won't stand up next turn.
• With a searcher in hand, the hand is almost always a keep.

Mid game (turns 4 to 7)

• Turns 3 and 4: Hongo (Blocker that sets a DON!! active and rests two cost 2 or less Characters) and Lucky.Roux, which searches and, on your opponent's turn, can be sacrificed to rest an attacker.
• Turns 5 to 7: Yasopp and Kouzuki Oden draw and each lock down an opposing Character. At 7 DON!!, Benn.Beckman draws, rests two and can attack them.
• Use the Leader after resting, not before: first rest with Yasopp, Beckman or Lucky.Roux, then the Leader locks the one that bothers you most.

Late game: how to close it out

• At 9 and 10 DON!!: Shanks ST16-004 K.O.s a rested Character.
• Shanks OP17-022 has Rush, sets two DON!! active and rests all your opponent's Characters: that is the finishing turn.
• Withdraw Now and Allow Me to Save Face K.O.s two rested cost 6 or less Characters, or gives +4000 to your Shanks on defence.

Mistakes that cost the most games

• Using the Leader before resting with your Characters.
• Having no plays for the first turns.
• Playing Shanks OP17-022 while your opponent still has lots of Life and counters: wait until you can finish.

The golden rule: use the Leader after resting, not before. First you rest with Yasopp, Beckman or Lucky.Roux, then the Leader locks the Character that bothers you most.

Shanks decklist: 1st at Aegean Pirate Cup #6 (22 October 2026)

With this list, Vasilispatralis won Aegean Pirate Cup #6, a 33-player online tournament on Limitless Play, going 5 wins and 0 losses. It was ten days after the Mihawk ban and it runs no EB-05 cards.

Total: 50 cards plus the Leader: 42 Characters and 8 events. It defends with 12 Characters with a +2000 Counter (Crone Oli, Limejuice and Hongo), 16 with +1000, and the 8 events, which also work as Counters.

Compared with the list Bandai recommended on 28 August 2026, the winner cuts Building Snake, Howling Gab, Fugar and Law & Bepo, and adds Trafalgar Law OP13-031, Jewelry Bonney and Fisher Tiger: more ways to rest or lock down Characters.

Key cards and why they matter

• Shanks OP17-022: cost 10, 12000 power and Rush. When played he sets two DON!! active and rests all of your opponent's Characters. Tournament lists run 4.
• Yasopp OP17-031: draws 1 and rests a Character with a cost of 8 or less. At the end of your turn he sets one of your Red-Haired Pirates active so it can defend.
• Benn.Beckman OP17-027: 9000 power for 7. With your Leader he draws 1, rests two Characters and can attack them straight away.
• Kouzuki Oden ST32-002: draws 1, and an opposing Character with a base cost of 6 or less can't be rested until the end of your opponent's next turn. If it can't be rested, it can't attack or block.
• Withdraw Now and Allow Me to Save Face OP17-036: by resting 6 DON!!, it rests a Character and K.O.s up to two rested Characters with a cost of 6 or less. As a Counter, it gives +4000 to your Shanks, Leader included.
• Trafalgar Law OP13-031: returns one of your Characters to your hand and plays another with a cost of 5 or less rested: you repeat the On Play effects of Yasopp or Oden.

Flex slots and options

Yasopp, Shanks OP17-022 and Withdraw Now were in all 30 Shanks lists on Limitless Play from 20 August to 17 October. Everything else moves around:

• Perona OP12-034: looks at 5 cards and adds a Slash card or a green event. The list that finished 3rd at Rumble League #14, also on 22 October, ran 4.
• Fugar OP17-026: a 1-cost with a +2000 Counter that rests Characters with a cost of 2 or less when attacking. Bandai's list runs 2.
• Rockstar OP17-034: if the opposing Leader has 6000 power or more, he sets a DON!! active and your Leader's base power becomes 6000. Built for Leaders like Luffy & Ace.
• Bonk Punch & Monster OP17-028: a Blocker that K.O.s a rested Character with a cost of 6 or less when played.

If you want to understand why almost everything runs at 4 copies, we explain it in how to build a One Piece TCG deck.

Mulligan

• Mulligan if you have no play for the early turns: no Limejuice, Crone Oli, Lucky.Roux, Hongo or the New Era event. With this list that happens in fewer than one hand in fourteen.
• Keep it with a searcher (Limejuice, Lucky.Roux or New Era): it will find what's missing.

Matchups against the top decks

The ranked column is best-of-one games on a simulator, as of 30 October 2026, the same data as our meta guide. The tournament column is online results from Limitless Play, with small samples.

Against Black Luffy, your plan lines up: their giants defend with Blocker, and a rested Character can't block. Shanks OP17-022 rests their whole board in one go. Online, over just ten games, it doesn't show yet. Against Rocks you struggle because they defend with effects paid for by trashing cards, not with active Characters, and they draw more than you. You can see it from the other side in the Rocks OP17-039 guide. Luffy & Ace is the worst: their Characters attack the turn they come down, so locking one doesn't slow their pressure, and their 6000-power Leader forces you to load more DON!! onto every attack. Their guide is in Luffy & Ace ST30-001 deck.

Overall, Shanks went 23-25 across 13 online tournaments from 12 to 27 October, with only 3% of the lists.

What EB-05 and OP-18 change

• EB-05 adds almost nothing. The two Shanks lists that placed on 22 October ran no EB-05 cards. EB-05 has been legal at Store Championships and regionals since 6 November 2026.
• OP-18 (20 November in English): no Red-Haired Pirates card is confirmed. As of 7 November, Bandai's official card list still doesn't include OP-18.
• More competition in green. Franky OP18-021 (green/purple) is confirmed by Bandai; Monkey.D.Luffy OP18-022 (green) is a leak. Neither belongs to the Red-Haired Pirates.

The full forecast is in how the meta will change with OP-18 and EB-05.

Budget: which cards are expensive

Shanks is one of the cheapest competitive decks. TCGplayer market prices as of 6 November 2026: the regular Leader is around $0.10 and its alternate art about $16. The card that weighs most is Shanks OP17-022, at about $3.80 a copy, so all four come to under $16. Yasopp, the other OP-17 Super Rare, was selling for $0.50 at a US store as of 7 November.

Kouzuki Oden comes in Starter Deck ST-32 (Green Roronoa Zoro) and Shanks ST16-004 in ST-16 (Green Uta).

Try it on ARENA

Shanks punishes sequencing mistakes: resting, locking with the Leader and choosing what to attack. On our free One Piece TCG simulator ARENA you load a meta decklist in one tap or build this one with the deck builder, from your phone or computer browser. Like every other simulator, ARENA is an unofficial fan-made project.

1. Play against the AI on its four difficulty levels until that sequencing comes naturally.
2. Create a private 1v1 room and ask a friend to play Luffy & Ace or Rocks against you, your two hard matchups.
3. Once you've got it down, climb the ranked ladder or join an online Swiss tournament with top cut.

If you want to compare options, see the best One Piece TCG simulators. And before you buy four Shanks OP17-022, play ten games with Shanks on ARENA.

FAQ

Is Shanks OP17-020 a good tournament deck?

It's tier 2: it wins the odd tournament, like Aegean Pirate Cup #6, but online it sits a little below 50%. Pick it if your local store has lots of Black Luffy and not much Luffy & Ace.

What do I do against Luffy & Ace?

It's your worst matchup (25% in ranked). Try Rockstar OP17-034, which takes your Leader to 6000 against Leaders with 6000 or more, and save Lucky.Roux to rest, on their turn, a Character that hasn't attacked yet.

Are any Shanks cards banned?

No, every card in this list is legal in Standard. The latest ban was the Mihawk OP14-020 Leader, on 12 October 2026. The full list is in One Piece TCG banned cards.

Keep reading

• Black Luffy OP17-079 deck: the giants deck Shanks does best against.
• Rocks OP17-039 deck: the most played deck in the format.
• Best One Piece TCG decks: the tier list for the current meta.
• The OP-18 and EB-05 meta: which decks go up and which go down.

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