my personal favorite tech is playing 6c sakazuki. i know the discard one sounds bad at first, but if you play around with removal combos, removing even cost cards can sometimes use the same amount of cards. example: hina hound blaze, or tsuru borsalino, both cost 2 cards to remove a 6c. sakazuki+leader eff is also 2 cards except you’re converting your 4zan/lucci that you can’t play/can retrieve into a -1c event basically, it’s removal; you also get the added bonus of holding precious events/2ks. my favorite combo is becca -> hina -> saka which removes a 10c and establishes 2 bodies and a blocker - great vs yellow. otherwise, borsalino ice age or borsalino + 2 tsurus/great eruption, is your only other answer, but you’re really vulnerable afterwards and it requires cards you can’t grab from trash so you have to hold or sac the option. as long as you don’t willy nilly play the sakazuki, can get kaido off, or properly use mansherry, you can get more hand size to make up for his price.
I have been playing for about a month, and I went to my fourth tournament... and won! The final match (of four) was against an Enel player. I had only ever played Enel once before (and I lost). After that loss, I watched this video, and while I couldn't remember everything you said about Enel, I just knew that I had to keep him at 2 because I didn't want to get Yamato'd. Anyway, I just kept clearing his board and ended up winning on time. I actually made a pretty big misplay at on my very last turn. I had 3 life and he had 2. I could have played a 4 Borsalino blocker, but instead, I don'd Sakazuki 4 times and swung for 9. I hit, but it triggered his Satori, so he got a body on the board (where before that wasn't one). I still ended up winning, but I think it would have been better to have just been up in life (3 to 2) and had an extra blocker than to go for life, not play a blocker, and risk a crazy trigger (for those that don't know, when time is up, players both essentially get two more turns and whoever has more life wins). My knowledge of Enel is so shallow I didn't know what he could have had to mess me up. Anyway, I learned a lot, but I owe my win (and my firs Winner tournament pack) to you.
1. you should play kuzan depend on the situation, that help u remove something big easily 2. also depends if u want to keep enel at 2 life. of course they might not play yamato cuz they have 2 life but with one more life, yamato's tagert is up by 1, they might just play it to KO something bigger on ur board while establish a body.
Thanks for this video. I was playing R/G Law for the last few formats, but obviously I need a new main deck now. Been learning Saka. It's a different playstyle than Law, so this video helps a lot.
appreciate the content brother, i love your in depth content, i love control decks so this is right for me. once i get the physical deck i would love to join in on some tournaments and such.
31:02 so I think you got this part backwards. This deck plays way more reduction than removal. If you can cycle the lucci to bottom rather than hina you are better off. Most lists play more than 15 valid targets for reduction (tashigi, tsuru, hina, great eruption, ice age and leader ability) while for removal there’s lucci, hound blaze, Borsalino, and maybe a Koby if you tech it in.
Yep, tried this list, it makes sense, but its a lot more difficult to play recently. Plus, I think people are starting to get very aggressive at sakazuki recently, you almost never have chance to play Kaido, so it ends up being a dead card in hand. Got jebaited at locals and went badly. Thanks for the tips, tho, they are very helpful!
This was a great video. Im running both sakazuki and r/p luffy. Would you say it's worth going 2nd just to make sakazuki go first, even if you want to go first? Also, how do you think r/p luffy can hold in this meta with 9 cost whitebeard back?
Loving the video. As I am a Rebecca/sakazuki main. What is your thoughts on 7cost Luffy to put back cards in your deck? Attacking their board aggressively as well. I’ve been thinking slot about that card. No one I’ve seen running it but it seems it would be a strong card?
Thanks for the detail in this. I play Doflamingo and bird cage wrecks this deck. However if I don’t have birdcage. This field can spam the field and put you in a bad position
Bro appreciate everything you do. Im active in your discord now and its huge fun :) i might be able to participate in your event :) are there any changes for the prizing? So do we get something if we are just in the top 8, 16 or 32? Because i dont think that i can win haha
Nice list! I'll try it at the next local.. I’m not a big fan of 3cost Hina (blue), but if you don’t have the brennew and going first🤔 hmm sounds good 😅
Very good and helpful video! How does your coaching work? Had a fairly dissapointing result in my first 1000+ Player OP05 tournament because i kept losing to nearly every yellow matchup (faced yellow 8 out of 10 rounds). I think i already learned a lot of those losses but im very eager to improve even more for nationals.
Whatsup man. I will say for coaching if you could hold off on it for 1 month I’m transferring my coaching to my website releasing end of January. So I won’t be doing it through UA-cam anymore But it works like this: you schedule a time with me on Calendly, we discuss you as a player.. deck you wanna play. And work on decision making. Match ups and reading the game state
I got shit on with P Luffy against a Saka who literally had everything. Lost the dice roll so had to go first, could play ulti + page one, ulti got removed with a rebecca into koby. I ko koby in two hits, play magellan. He kills ulti and combo bottom decks my magellan. I play a second magellan to prevent him from doing an easy 7 borsa, but the second magellan also gets combo bottom decked. I literally couldn't do anything.
Pretty sure enel won the last regional off the back of bege in his last life as the pluffy was going for game😅 calling yellow "braindead" and "skilless" i think is an understatement. Yellow players in the comments saying "just get good" makes no sense because no amount of skill on my part can prevent that from happening while also requiring no skill from you at all to draw the exact card you need out of life. It is 100% luck based.
That's a bit disingenuous and just makes you seem like a hater. Most top decks can do unfair decks. Yellow is built to abuse triggers. It's not "100% luck based" when it's doing what it's built to do consistently. Triggers are a big part of its gamelan and most of the time they will hit some. Other decks have more powerful cards individually but less triggers. It's doing what its supposed to do
Its just my opinion. I do not like losing to a deck that revolves around luck. Its not fun outplaying your opponent and you getting unlucky and losing to something they didnt control.@@DGzCarbon
So not quite understanding the never play Kuzan, i like the idea of kuzan due to 2 things. 1. its replaces himself, so you get a draw. Lets say they pop him, its net even you didnt neg. then 2. it creates a target for them to focus on. If they cant get him away quick then him staying creates a big threat to them. I like the mental aspect of the opp having to get rid of him. I think playing Borsalino instead doesnt gain you anything.
You're giving up too much tempo playing the Kuzan if you know it's going to get popped. By playing the Borsalino first you make the opponent have a suboptimal play.
@@yaboyvickk5635 Yeah but you have Borsalino on board, they didn't ramp, they spent the whole turn to +1k their leader and you can just remove the kid. and if you're able to develop while removing the kid, you're in a really good spot.
@@yaboyvickk5635 A competent Luffy will just play Paulie anyway (if they have it) pop nothing and ramp to 8 don and swing 6. Paulie got them the ramp. 7c Kid sets them back and gets cleared by Ice Age into whatever removal option. A T4 Kaido or Double Magellan is a much trickier situation for the Sakazuki to get out of than outing 1 7c Body on board.
I just wanna show that to preface my points. It’s just a good addition to give me a bit more credibility. But I do hope it shows from the way I break down the game
His takes are so bad. I continue to play Rebecca to this day, and I used to complain about yellow. The solution? Get better. Him complaining is just his excuse for having skill issues.
It’s funny cus I could not only beat you in this game. But to my face you definitely wouldn’t say this. Y’all keyboard warriors are hilarious. Go get some bitches
@@heartpiratestcg making threats online doesn’t make your statement any better lol. I wouldn’t have any problem saying this to you in person either. “Get some bitches” just means you’re insecure and your attitude shows you not only need to improve in One Piece but also need to learn a thing or two about maturity.
“Enel and kata are skilless brainless “ says the one teaching saka where all they do is pull Luci get rid of every card after turn 3 basically but yeah enel and kata are brain dead okay buddy 😭
New to playing sakazuki so searched for some tips on youtube. I will say that seeing some of your comments, and how you talk about yellow decks have turned me away from your content. Just letting you know it may happen to other people who happen upon your content.
@@heartpiratestcg hey man I’ve watched more of your content to try it out again. I’ve really enjoyed it so far. I’d say this one is an outlier after I watched other helpful videos you have made. Thanks for all the work you put in, and I am even thinking of signing up for coaching.
Btw guys time stamps are in the description
my personal favorite tech is playing 6c sakazuki. i know the discard one sounds bad at first, but if you play around with removal combos, removing even cost cards can sometimes use the same amount of cards. example: hina hound blaze, or tsuru borsalino, both cost 2 cards to remove a 6c. sakazuki+leader eff is also 2 cards except you’re converting your 4zan/lucci that you can’t play/can retrieve into a -1c event basically, it’s removal; you also get the added bonus of holding precious events/2ks. my favorite combo is becca -> hina -> saka which removes a 10c and establishes 2 bodies and a blocker - great vs yellow. otherwise, borsalino ice age or borsalino + 2 tsurus/great eruption, is your only other answer, but you’re really vulnerable afterwards and it requires cards you can’t grab from trash so you have to hold or sac the option. as long as you don’t willy nilly play the sakazuki, can get kaido off, or properly use mansherry, you can get more hand size to make up for his price.
I have been playing for about a month, and I went to my fourth tournament... and won!
The final match (of four) was against an Enel player. I had only ever played Enel once before (and I lost). After that loss, I watched this video, and while I couldn't remember everything you said about Enel, I just knew that I had to keep him at 2 because I didn't want to get Yamato'd. Anyway, I just kept clearing his board and ended up winning on time.
I actually made a pretty big misplay at on my very last turn. I had 3 life and he had 2. I could have played a 4 Borsalino blocker, but instead, I don'd Sakazuki 4 times and swung for 9. I hit, but it triggered his Satori, so he got a body on the board (where before that wasn't one). I still ended up winning, but I think it would have been better to have just been up in life (3 to 2) and had an extra blocker than to go for life, not play a blocker, and risk a crazy trigger (for those that don't know, when time is up, players both essentially get two more turns and whoever has more life wins).
My knowledge of Enel is so shallow I didn't know what he could have had to mess me up. Anyway, I learned a lot, but I owe my win (and my firs Winner tournament pack) to you.
1. you should play kuzan depend on the situation, that help u remove something big easily
2. also depends if u want to keep enel at 2 life. of course they might not play yamato cuz they have 2 life but with one more life, yamato's tagert is up by 1, they might just play it to KO something bigger on ur board while establish a body.
watched this before my anni tourney tonight with. saka. my biggest struggle is enel rn, Ill update how it did after. amazing vid ty!!
Good luck bro
Thanks for this video. I was playing R/G Law for the last few formats, but obviously I need a new main deck now. Been learning Saka. It's a different playstyle than Law, so this video helps a lot.
Glad I could help!
The OSRS music in the background is beautiful!
Hahaha the hate for yellow. Feel you got your ass beat up by some of those :DD
Facts lol. But I got mine more than I got got tho
appreciate the content brother, i love your in depth content, i love control decks so this is right for me. once i get the physical deck i would love to join in on some tournaments and such.
Great content! Trying to learn Sakazuki and learned a ton thanks!
Happy to help!
31:02 so I think you got this part backwards. This deck plays way more reduction than removal. If you can cycle the lucci to bottom rather than hina you are better off. Most lists play more than 15 valid targets for reduction (tashigi, tsuru, hina, great eruption, ice age and leader ability) while for removal there’s lucci, hound blaze, Borsalino, and maybe a Koby if you tech it in.
Great Video! WOW! Thank you and keep up the good work mate!
Glad you liked it!
Very great content, thank you so much brother ❤
Good guide, helps fight Sakazuki too.
Yep, tried this list, it makes sense, but its a lot more difficult to play recently. Plus, I think people are starting to get very aggressive at sakazuki recently, you almost never have chance to play Kaido, so it ends up being a dead card in hand. Got jebaited at locals and went badly. Thanks for the tips, tho, they are very helpful!
Awesome Video! Can u make this kind of video for Enel aswell?
Keep it up man, I like your content and appreciate that you made a video explaining how to play each and every matchup with this deck.
Glad you enjoy it! It really means so much to me
This was a great video. Im running both sakazuki and r/p luffy. Would you say it's worth going 2nd just to make sakazuki go first, even if you want to go first? Also, how do you think r/p luffy can hold in this meta with 9 cost whitebeard back?
Awesome content, keep the saka vids coming
You are my goat.
You are too kind
Loving the video. As I am a Rebecca/sakazuki main. What is your thoughts on 7cost Luffy to put back cards in your deck? Attacking their board aggressively as well. I’ve been thinking slot about that card. No one I’ve seen running it but it seems it would be a strong card?
I don’t think it’s good in sakazuki but in Rebecca it’s great
@@heartpiratestcg I was meaning specifically in saka just adds a bit of aggression and helps pick up events more
Thanks for the detail in this. I play Doflamingo and bird cage wrecks this deck. However if I don’t have birdcage. This field can spam the field and put you in a bad position
Bird cage is terrifying tbh
@@heartpiratestcg cant you play around this by protecting with sabo?
@@TheRever111 bird cage locks them in place. Its not about them dying
@@heartpiratestcg Ohh that makes sense, thank you for clarifying!
hi, would you create yamato masterclass video?
Love your insights thanks
Have you already a video where you play your deck? because i habe this weekend my first tournament and i want to play sakazuki. thanks for this video
The matches I posted last week are all of me playing it. I also have extra matches for my UA-cam membership people ❤️❤️
@@heartpiratestcg yes i was watching all. but now you change your deck. habe you already a new matchup with this deck?
This is so helpful cause you won a shanks and zoro, i learned a lot.
Is that sarcasm
@@heartpiratestcg no
Susssss
Bro appreciate everything you do. Im active in your discord now and its huge fun :) i might be able to participate in your event :) are there any changes for the prizing? So do we get something if we are just in the top 8, 16 or 32? Because i dont think that i can win haha
Thanks so much man! If we get 160 people we will have top 16 prizing. If not it’s huge prizing for top 8. Believe in yourself! You can win
@@heartpiratestcg thank you so much bro haha ok i hope i can register myself in a few days after i get some money :)
Nice list! I'll try it at the next local.. I’m not a big fan of 3cost Hina (blue), but if you don’t have the brennew and going first🤔 hmm sounds good 😅
I just wanna not brick man :(
Very good and helpful video! How does your coaching work? Had a fairly dissapointing result in my first 1000+ Player OP05 tournament because i kept losing to nearly every yellow matchup (faced yellow 8 out of 10 rounds). I think i already learned a lot of those losses but im very eager to improve even more for nationals.
Whatsup man. I will say for coaching if you could hold off on it for 1 month I’m transferring my coaching to my website releasing end of January. So I won’t be doing it through UA-cam anymore
But it works like this: you schedule a time with me on Calendly, we discuss you as a player.. deck you wanna play. And work on decision making. Match ups and reading the game state
the 2500 Player Event is on Janurary 20th😅 haha@@heartpiratestcg
I’ve been wrecking sakazuki with my ace deck lately, probably just a lot of luck but boards been staying pretty empty on both sides till the end lol
bro got himself a blanket but still wearing a tshirt 😂
Blanky solves everything lmao
Appreciate the video man !
i wish this video have put in the OP06 card, feels like with OP06 cards bb sakazuki has more alternatif
I don’t know anything about 06 yet
no prob your video is very helpful as a bb saka player eventho im playing in asia so im now in OP06 keep it up tho@@heartpiratestcg
I got shit on with P Luffy against a Saka who literally had everything. Lost the dice roll so had to go first, could play ulti + page one, ulti got removed with a rebecca into koby. I ko koby in two hits, play magellan. He kills ulti and combo bottom decks my magellan. I play a second magellan to prevent him from doing an easy 7 borsa, but the second magellan also gets combo bottom decked. I literally couldn't do anything.
Hello Mr.HeartPiratesTCG. Nice video! Watching your videos I feel like has helped me get better at the game. Keep it up!
Hey, thanks!
I been playing Betty and i seem to have little trouble with Saka. But like most matchups. It comes down to what is in my life.
Bello is sink or swim tbh lol. You either blow them out or get blown out in my experience
What your stance on removal event cards like Three Thousand Worlds and/or Red Roc?
I was playing it but I am just losing to non counters so I think it’s best to play cycle cards going forward
do you think there is anything that can replace blocker borsalino? i know its a very tough ask im just not willing to spend on him rn
I mean technically no. But you can add another blocker. It would just be worse overall
You can play 3 cost cp blocker. Can’t be ko’d by effect and still recyclable just not searchable off brannew or as big as borsalino
Bro tysm for this video❤
Any time brotha
Yo these comments are wildin..keep doing you king...ignore the haters
lol Ill put em in their place then ignore them. Thanks bro
Great video
what is the winrate of pluffy vs sakazuki?
I personally don’t think it’s unwinnable for pluffy but it’s probably 65/35 in Sakas favor
Pretty sure enel won the last regional off the back of bege in his last life as the pluffy was going for game😅 calling yellow "braindead" and "skilless" i think is an understatement. Yellow players in the comments saying "just get good" makes no sense because no amount of skill on my part can prevent that from happening while also requiring no skill from you at all to draw the exact card you need out of life. It is 100% luck based.
I couldn’t agree more. I think zoro and WB are unfair decks. But I think Kat and enel are just the lamest decks around
That's a bit disingenuous and just makes you seem like a hater. Most top decks can do unfair decks. Yellow is built to abuse triggers. It's not "100% luck based" when it's doing what it's built to do consistently. Triggers are a big part of its gamelan and most of the time they will hit some. Other decks have more powerful cards individually but less triggers. It's doing what its supposed to do
Its just my opinion. I do not like losing to a deck that revolves around luck. Its not fun outplaying your opponent and you getting unlucky and losing to something they didnt control.@@DGzCarbon
So not quite understanding the never play Kuzan, i like the idea of kuzan due to 2 things. 1. its replaces himself, so you get a draw. Lets say they pop him, its net even you didnt neg. then 2. it creates a target for them to focus on. If they cant get him away quick then him staying creates a big threat to them. I like the mental aspect of the opp having to get rid of him. I think playing Borsalino instead doesnt gain you anything.
You're giving up too much tempo playing the Kuzan if you know it's going to get popped. By playing the Borsalino first you make the opponent have a suboptimal play.
thing is, yes you get the card to replace him, but they gain tempo. playing a safer card like bors, stops that.
@@yaboyvickk5635 Yeah but you have Borsalino on board, they didn't ramp, they spent the whole turn to +1k their leader and you can just remove the kid. and if you're able to develop while removing the kid, you're in a really good spot.
@@yaboyvickk5635 A competent Luffy will just play Paulie anyway (if they have it) pop nothing and ramp to 8 don and swing 6. Paulie got them the ramp. 7c Kid sets them back and gets cleared by Ice Age into whatever removal option.
A T4 Kaido or Double Magellan is a much trickier situation for the Sakazuki to get out of than outing 1 7c Body on board.
lol ok if you think Pluffy wants to go second then please don’t watch the channel. Its not meant for you
Ayyy appreciate it man
I have been messing around with the deck a bit more, I think I am a bigger fan of Mihawk over the kaido
That’s totally fine. It’s your deck at the end of the day you know
Love the RuneScape music 😅
You a real 1 then
Imagine getting brulee'd, sanji'd, and bege'd, couldn't be me. :')
lol something tells me this has happened to you
Happened to me at the LA regional finals and it still burns lmao
nice video! do it for pluffy T_T
can you do one for blue crocodile
I can look into that in the future. I got a lot of other stuff planned but when I have free time I’ll do my best
top knot is the tech
I exposed your tricks
When is the enel master class?
lol probably not coming tbh
@@heartpiratestcg rip 😞
I had hard time in the mirror match...
Why don't use mihawk cost 9? Is a good card in many matchup.
It’s just not consistent or searchable. It’s a good card but not in this version
Its good but 9 drop play is too late in some matchups imo. Strawbeard and purple ramp decks are threatening game before yu get there
I don't think u need the serial shanks and zoro to show credibility if u know what ur talking about it shows
I just wanna show that to preface my points. It’s just a good addition to give me a bit more credibility. But I do hope it shows from the way I break down the game
The problem its on a bad day
For some reason
@@heartpiratestcg the tournament :) but tbh i have to work there so its not bad for u but only for me sowy
A master class after dumping the deck to go back to croc, sure..
His takes are so bad. I continue to play Rebecca to this day, and I used to complain about yellow. The solution? Get better. Him complaining is just his excuse for having skill issues.
@@ssvaiyn3187your take is so bad rn
It’s funny cus I could not only beat you in this game. But to my face you definitely wouldn’t say this. Y’all keyboard warriors are hilarious. Go get some bitches
@@brockfg something tells me you also get beat up by yellow and complain about it too.
@@heartpiratestcg making threats online doesn’t make your statement any better lol. I wouldn’t have any problem saying this to you in person either. “Get some bitches” just means you’re insecure and your attitude shows you not only need to improve in One Piece but also need to learn a thing or two about maturity.
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“Enel and kata are skilless brainless “ says the one teaching saka where all they do is pull Luci get rid of every card after turn 3 basically but yeah enel and kata are brain dead okay buddy 😭
Yellow takes 0 skill to win litterally you will be carried by trigger and luck, no need to think about big moves you play your 7+ drop and pass.
I mean.. you kind of right lol
Yellow is bad game design
On Ja
New to playing sakazuki so searched for some tips on youtube. I will say that seeing some of your comments, and how you talk about yellow decks have turned me away from your content. Just letting you know it may happen to other people who happen upon your content.
I’m not gonna change who I am to fit a UA-cam drone prototype. If you don’t like me it’s totally fine
@@heartpiratestcg hey man I’ve watched more of your content to try it out again. I’ve really enjoyed it so far. I’d say this one is an outlier after I watched other helpful videos you have made. Thanks for all the work you put in, and I am even thinking of signing up for coaching.