Cards Of The Week #13

Sanji (OP09-065)

This used to be one of the stronger cards you just had to have in purple Straw Hat decks and other purple decks in general. But these days, it is sort of shows it hasn't aged too well. The effects are actually still solid, getting rush and also able to rest a 6 or lower character. Perfect to deal with blockers when pushing for game or just to target some specific character that wasn't rested.

However, you gotta look at what you're paying here. And that would be 7 DON!! to get a 7000 power character. In addition you also have to return an additional DON!! to your Don!! deck because, well, you know this card is purple. They just need to throw that negative in there. He does have a +1000 counter in hand I'd say he's still a bit costly for the attack power you're getting.

To conclude, I wouldn't say this is a worthless card even now but I can't bring myself to rate it too highly either.

SaberWolf's Rating: 3.8/5

Arlong (OP15-023)

This is one Arlong card you really, really don't want to KO unless you can negate its effect with that Blackbeard event or something. 90% of cards made to work with the Don Krieg leader from OP15 have nothing to do with him lore wise, but nevertheless this card was made to work with that leader.

The punishment you get if you KO this card is huge, getting to freeze up to 2 of your opponent's rested cards on their next turn. Any cards, not just characters. Hell, there isn't even any limitations on the cost of the characters you can freeze.

On the flipside, while this card is alive your opponent can place one of your own rested DON!! to one of your characters and they get a free rested DON!! of their own to buff their leader or character. This Arlong provides amazing advantage to Don Krieg and really, even other green leaders. Unless you can remove this card from the board without KOing it you're stuck between 2 troublesome effects and having to decide which one you want to swallow.

Even if your opponent would have nothing on the board and just give DON!! to the leader to kill this card, Arlong will still be able to freeze your leader at the very least. There isn't any easy way out of this if you can't perform a non KO removal.

SaberWolf's Rating: 4.6/5