OP-16 Regional Recap: Peoria’s Winning Luffy Decklist

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On July 25, 2026, three Regionals ran on the same day on three different continents — Peoria, Illinois (512 players), Puebla, Mexico (474 players), and Sofia, Bulgaria (502 players) — and all three produced nearly the same Top 3. That’s not a coincidence; it’s the clearest signal yet that the OP-16 format has settled into a genuine three-deck race between Green/Blue Monkey D. Luffy, Purple Enel, and Blue/Yellow Nami. Here’s how Peoria’s winning Luffy list was actually built, and what the other two events tell us about the format around it.

The Weekend at a Glance

All three events ran in the OP-16 + ST-30 Standard format (legal cards through The Time of Battle, released May 30, 2026 in Japan / June 12, 2026 in English), and all three were run and reported through Limitless One Piece, the same free tournament database we used for the earlier Wolverhampton Regional breakdown on this site.

Two of three events were won outright by Green/Blue Luffy, and Purple Enel or Blue/Yellow Nami filled most of the remaining Top 8 seats at all three. Compare that to Regional Wolverhampton just a week earlier (July 18–19, 1,007 players), where Blue/Black Sakazuki and Black Gecko Moria — neither of which shows up in this weekend’s Top 8s at all — took seven of eight Top 8 slots. That’s the kind of week-to-week swing that makes “the meta” a moving target rather than a fixed tier list, and it’s exactly why we’re covering fresh results instead of repeating last month’s.

Peoria’s Winning Decklist: Green/Blue Luffy’s Impel Down Engine

Howie.TOFU’s championship-winning list runs Monkey D. Luffy (OP16-022) as the Leader, but don’t mistake this for a Straw Hat Crew aggro deck — it’s built entirely around the Impel Down trait instead.

Luffy’s Leader ability reads roughly: “[Activate:Main][Once Per Turn] If the only Characters on your field are {Impel Down} type Characters, set up to 2 of your DON!! cards as active.” That’s a real constraint, not a suggestion — splash in even one non-Impel Down card for resilience and the entire engine shuts off for that turn. In exchange, the deck gets extra usable DON!! most turns, which compounds into a tempo and board-development lead that’s hard for slower decks to claw back.

Key characters in the winning 50-card list:

Events were kept lean (around 6 slots), mostly board-clear and combat tricks like Let’s Go!! To the Navy Headquarters!! (OP16-038) rather than a big trigger-value package — this is a curve-and-attack deck, not a control shell.

The downside: this is one of the least forgiving decks in the format to actually pilot correctly. The all-Impel-Down requirement means you can’t tech in generic answer cards the way most Leaders can, so if you draw into a hand that doesn’t line up, there’s no backup plan. It’s also a genuinely new archetype (OP-16 released less than two months before this event), so expect prices on its key rares to keep moving as more players figure out the 50-card math — this isn’t a deck where “just buy singles off the first listing you find” is good advice yet.

The Podium Regulars: Purple Enel and Blue/Yellow Nami

Purple Enel (OP15-058, home set: Adventure on Kami’s Island) placed multiple pilots in the Top 8 at all three Regionals — 2nd, 5th, and 6th at Peoria; 4th, 5th, and 6th at Puebla; 3rd, 4th, and 7th at Sofia. Independent tracking sites had Enel around a 64.6% win rate and roughly 22.5% of the OP-16 meta share as of late July 2026, putting it in S-tier alongside Luffy. The Leader’s ability lets you set up to one active and four rested DON!! from your deck once per turn starting turn 2, which can push a single 6-cost character up to 14,000 power. Downside: Enel’s own DON!! deck is capped smaller than a normal 10, so misplaying the ramp sequence just leaves you playing a worse deck than your opponent’s — it’s a high-ceiling, high-floor-risk pilot’s deck, not a plug-and-play list.

Blue/Yellow Nami (OP11-041, home set: A Fist of Divine Speed, OP-11) won Sofia outright and took 2nd and 3rd there too, plus 2nd and 3rd at Puebla. Nami draws a card whenever a Life card is removed on either side (provided you hold seven or fewer cards in hand), giving her a resource engine that keeps working through grindy games. Meta trackers had her holding the single largest overall leader share in the format (around 24.5%) but a win rate that’s cooled from a mid-June high above 57% into the low-to-mid 50s as the top three decks built specific answers to her draw engine — and she’s reportedly weak into Ace and Lucy specifically. Downside: Nami is a three-year-old Leader (OP-11 released in 2025) still holding a Tier 1 spot purely on card quality, but that also means she’s the deck a Bandai balance pass is most likely to eventually target if her meta share keeps climbing.

You can find a real listing for her home set here: BANDAI ONE PIECE Card Game — A Fist of Divine Speed (OP-11) Booster Box, running roughly ¥30,975 (about $207 at typical August 2026 exchange rates) — noticeably pricier than a standard-release box, which reflects both Nami’s ongoing relevance and OP-11 being harder to find in quantity a year after release.

The Dark Horse: Red/Blue Lucy’s Peoria Top 8 Run

Jovis finished 7th at Peoria piloting Red/Blue Lucy (Monkey D. Luffy, OP-15) — notable because meta trackers only credit that archetype with around 2.4% of the current OP-16 field. Lucy’s Leader ability lets you trash any number of Events on an attack (yours or your opponent’s) to add +1,000 power per Event trashed to your Leader, plus a built-in draw trigger off 3-cost-or-higher Events. The plan is straightforward, hyper-aggressive midrange: push tempo hard enough that slower ramp decks like Enel fold before they reach their explosive turns. Downside: that low meta share isn’t an accident — Lucy is genuinely difficult to build efficiently (you’re paying real deck-building costs to stock enough high-value Events to fuel the trash-for-power plan), and a single strong Top 8 finish doesn’t mean the archetype is suddenly undervalued by the tier lists. One good result at one Regional is a data point, not a trend.

Why did three separate Regionals produce almost the same Top 3?

This is the most useful takeaway from the weekend, honestly. OP-16 released roughly two months before this event, which is enough time for the format to stabilize — early “which new Leader is secretly busted” chaos gives way to a smaller number of genuinely well-built decks that keep showing up because they’re just better-tuned than the alternatives. Green/Blue Luffy, Purple Enel, and Blue/Yellow Nami all posted 60%+ tracked win rates on ranked-ladder samples well before this weekend; Peoria, Puebla, and Sofia are the paper-tournament confirmation of what the numbers were already saying. Compare that to Wolverhampton the week before, where two off-tier-list Leaders (Sakazuki and Moria) dominated — that result now looks more like a regional/local metagame quirk (or a specific set of players who prepared hard counters) than the start of a new trend, since it didn’t repeat here.

Comparison Table: The Weekend’s Top Leaders

Prices above are pulled from a single listing’s JPY price as of this writing, converted at roughly ¥150/$1 — actual cost shifts with currency rates, shipping, and stock. This isn’t financial advice; treat any card or sealed-product price here as a snapshot, not a guarantee.

FAQ

Where can I watch or read full tournament coverage for events like these?
Limitless One Piece (onepiece.limitlesstcg.com) is the best free source — it posts round-by-round standings, full Top 8 (and often Top 32/64) decklists, and archetype breakdowns for every sanctioned Regional and Championship. It’s the same database we pulled this recap from.

Is Green/Blue Luffy a good deck for a new player to build first?
Probably not as a first deck. It’s mechanically simple to explain but punishing to actually pilot — the strict Impel Down trait requirement means there’s very little room to “fix” a bad hand with generic good cards the way you can with more flexible Leaders. A budget Rosinante or Nami build is more forgiving while you learn.

Do OP-16 cards rotate out anytime soon?
Not for years. Rotation does exist now — the first one hit on April 1, 2026, taking Block 1 (OP-01 through OP-04 and the earliest Starter Decks) out of Standard — but OP-16 is one of the newest sets in the pool and sits several blocks away from the chopping block. Standard currently runs from OP-05 forward, and rotated cards remain legal in the separate Extra Regulation format. Two things to check before building around an older card: its Block Number icon, and the current banned/restricted list — Bandai issued a new banned pairing (OP07-115 with EB04-058 Borsalino) effective April 2026.

Why do some cards, like Prisoner of Impel Down, appear more than 4 times in a decklist?
Normally a One Piece Card Game deck can only run 4 copies of any single card number. A small number of specific cards have text explicitly exempting them from that limit — Prisoner of Impel Down is one, which is why Howie.TOFU’s Peoria-winning list legally runs 8 copies of it.

Is it safe to copy a Regional-winning decklist exactly?
Mechanically yes — nothing stops you from building the same 50 cards. Just budget realistically: a fresh-off-a-win archetype like Green/Blue Luffy will often see its key rares (multiple 4-ofs of new OP-16 commons/uncommons plus any chase rares) spike in price for a few weeks after a big result, so pricing out singles the week of a big win is usually the most expensive time to buy in.

Takeaway

Two Regionals won outright by the same Leader, plus a third Regional’s win going to the only other deck that beat it in Top 8s, is about as clear a signal as paper tournaments give you: Green/Blue Luffy, Purple Enel, and Blue/Yellow Nami are the real top of the OP-16 format right now, and Howie.TOFU’s Peoria list is a legitimate blueprint if you want to build toward that tier rather than just read about it. If you’d rather start cheaper and work up, our OP-16 set review covers the full Paramount War card pool and its best pulls, and our leader tier list breaks down how this weekend’s results compare to the wider ranked-ladder data. If you specifically want a budget-friendly way to test-drive a Luffy-colored strategy before committing to singles, Starter Deck EX – Luffy & Ace (ST-30) is a different Red/Green fusion Leader rather than the Green/Blue Impel Down build covered here, but it’s a cheap, real way to see how a Luffy-centered deck plays before spending real money chasing this weekend’s exact winning list.

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