OP-16 Law Deck Guide: No Leader, Rosinante's Key Piece

This OP-16 Law deck guide starts with a correction it owes readers: Trafalgar Law does not lead a deck in OP-16. That is not a hedge, it is the actual printed card pool: the six OP-16 leaders are Ace, Luffy, Buggy, Sengoku, Yamato, and Blackbeard, and Law's name does not appear among them. What Law gets in this set are two separate Character cards, OP16-030OP16-030Shop on TCGplayer in Green and OP16-068OP16-068Shop on TCGplayer in Purple, and neither one does anything close to the DON!!-stripping "leader ability" that older versions of this guide described. This is the corrected version of that guide, rebuilt from the actual card text and from where these two cards genuinely show up in tournament decklists.

TL;DR: Trafalgar Law is not a leader in OP-16. OP16-030 (Green, cost 8) locks one opponent Character from refreshing and untaps your own cheap Green Characters. OP16-068 (Purple, cost 4) adds and activates a DON!! card and swings for extra power against Donquixote Pirates leaders. OP16-068 is a real, verified include in Purple/Yellow Rosinante, whose leader ability directly discounts and protects Trafalgar Law cards. OP16-030 is a fringe pick tied almost entirely to mono-Green Mihawk, with one recorded tournament placement. If you want an actual Law leader deck, that exists outside OP-16, built around OP10-022 from the Royal Blood set.

OP-16 Law deck guide: quick answer

There is no Law leader deck to build in OP-16, because there is no Law leader card in the set. The honest version of this guide covers two things instead: what OP16-030 and OP16-068 actually do as Character cards, and the one leader deck, Purple/Yellow Rosinante, where a Trafalgar Law card is a genuine, sourced tournament include rather than a guess.

Key Takeaways

• Trafalgar Law is not one of OP-16's six leaders (Ace, Luffy, Buggy, Sengoku, Yamato, Blackbeard).
• OP16-030 (Green, cost 8, 9000 power) locks one opposing rested Character and untaps your own cheap Green Characters. It is a niche include, tied mostly to mono-Green Mihawk.
• OP16-068 (Purple, cost 4, 3000 power) adds and activates a DON!! card and can swing for +3000 power. It is a real, confirmed 2-of in tournament Purple/Yellow Rosinante lists.
• Rosinante's own leader ability (OP12-061) discounts and protects Trafalgar Law cards specifically, which is the actual mechanical reason Law fits that deck.
• A real Law leader deck exists, but not in OP-16: OP10-022 Trafalgar Law (Green/Yellow, Royal Blood) runs a Supernova combo shell that now has at least one confirmed OP-16-era placement, a 2nd-place finish at Regional Peoria, IL.
• Neither OP16-030 nor OP16-068 is a chase card. OP16-030 is a Rare, OP16-068 is a Common.

Why Trafalgar Law Isn't a Leader in OP-16

This needs to be said plainly because an earlier version of this article got it wrong: Law does not have a leader card in OP-16, and no version of him in this set removes DON!! from an opponent's characters. The six confirmed OP-16 leaders, sourced from the official Bandai card list, are Ace, Luffy, Buggy, Sengoku, Yamato, and Blackbeard. The full breakdown of what each of those six actually does is in the OP-16 all 6 leaders explained guide, linked below.

Law shows up in OP-16 only as two Character cards. Neither one is printed with a "Leader" type box, and neither has anything to do with pulling DON!! off an opponent's board. That framing (a DON!! manipulation "leader ability", a 50-card Heart Pirates decklist with cards like Shambles, Injection Shot, and White Night) did not exist. Those card names do not appear in the official card list or on Limitless TCG's database for any set. If you saw that version of this guide before today, treat everything in it as replaced by what follows.

OP16-030 (left) carries a Character card banner. Compare it to a real Leader card like OP16-022 Luffy (right): the power and cost boxes look similar, but only the Leader card controls a deck.

The Two Real OP-16 Law Cards

Both cards below are quoted directly from the official card text on Bandai's card list and confirmed against Limitless TCG's card database.

OP16-030 Trafalgar Law (Green, cost 8, 9000 power, Rare, Supernovas/Heart Pirates): [On Play] Up to 1 of your opponent's rested Characters will not become active in your opponent's next Refresh Phase. [End of Your Turn] Set all of your Green Characters with a cost of 5 or less as active.

That is a tempo tool, not a board lock in the full sense. It denies one specific rested Character a refresh for one cycle, which can strand an opponent's blocker or attacker for a turn. The second clause is a self-untap effect: any of your own cheap Green Characters that got rested (by blocking, by an ability, whatever) come back up at the end of your turn, letting them act again sooner than normal. At cost 8, it is an expensive card for what it does, which is likely why it has not found a real home outside of one archetype.

OP16-068 Trafalgar Law (Purple, cost 4, 3000 power, +1000 counter, Common, Donquixote Pirates): [On Play] Add up to 1 DON!! card from your DON!! deck and set it as active. [When Attacking] If your Leader has the {Donquixote Pirates} type, this Character gains +3000 power during this turn.

This is a real, if modest, DON!! ramp effect: it pulls a DON!! card out of your DON!! deck and puts it into play active, functionally acting like extra resource on the turn you play it. The counter value also makes it usable defensively in a pinch. The DON!! system explains how that DON!! deck resource actually works if the mechanic is new to you, and the counter mechanic guide covers how a printed counter value like this one gets used defensively.

GODEEPER: Curious what the six real OP-16 leaders can do instead of a fictional Law leader? Every one of them is broken down card by card. OP-16 All 6 Leaders Explained →

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Where Law Actually Sees Play: Purple/Yellow Rosinante

If there is one honest "Law deck" story in OP-16, it is this one. OP16-068 is a confirmed, real include in Purple/Yellow Rosinante. Limitless TCG's decklist filter for OP16-068 shows tournament placements at multiple Treasure Cups and Regionals, all logged under the Rosinante leader, and a first-place Standard Battle list on gumgum.gg ran 2 copies of OP16-068 alongside older Trafalgar Law prints (P-088, P-093, ST10-010, EB03-062).

The mechanical reason is printed on Rosinante's own leader card, OP12-061: once per turn, Rosinante can spend 1 DON!! so that the next Trafalgar Law card with cost 4 or more you play that turn costs 2 less, and separately, if your Trafalgar Law would be KO'd, you may add a card from the top of your Life cards to your hand instead of losing it outright. That is a leader built to specifically reward playing Trafalgar Law cards, cost-4 OP16-068 among them, discounted down to an effective 2 DON!! and given a small safety net against removal. It is not a coincidence that this is the one place Law shows up in real OP-16 results. This is not a stale claim: checking Limitless TCG's card-usage data again in early August turns up eight fresh tournament placements for OP16-068 from late-July events alone (Treasure Cup Sofia, Regional Peoria, Regional Sofia, Treasure Cup Peoria, and Treasure Cup Wolverhampton), and every single one runs under a Rosinante leader. Nothing else has picked the card up.

Rarity plays a role here too. The card rarities guide explains what each tier means; OP16-068 being a Common keeps it accessible for anyone building the Rosinante shell, unlike a Super Rare or Manga Rare that would carry real chase-card pricing.

OP16-030 in Green: A Niche Mihawk Include

OP16-030 has a much thinner footprint. On Limitless TCG's own usage data, the card is tied to essentially one leader: mono-Green Mihawk (OP14-020). It has exactly one recorded tournament placement, a 12th-place finish at a Treasure Cup in Peoria, IL. It does not appear on the staple-card lists for the current top-meta OP-16 leaders (Blue/Yellow Nami, Green/Blue Luffy, Purple Enel, Purple/Yellow Rosinante, Black/Yellow Blackbeard, or Black Yamato).

That does not make it unplayable, it makes it a rogue pick. If you are already running mono-Green Mihawk and want a high-power body that can strand an opponent's key blocker for a turn while topping up your own tempo, OP16-030 is a real option worth testing. It is not, and should not be described as, the centerpiece of an established archetype.

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Luffy and Sengoku are two of the six actual OP-16 leaders. Trafalgar Law is not a seventh option; he only exists as the two Character cards covered above.

Step-by-Step: Playing OP16-068 Inside Rosinante

This is not a standalone Law deck's turn pattern, because no such deck exists. It is how OP16-068 specifically gets used inside a real Purple/Yellow Rosinante list, based on the leader's printed cost-reduction and the card's own text.

Early turns: Rosinante's dual-color shell is doing its normal setup work, establishing Purple removal access and Yellow card flow. OP16-068 is not usually an early play; at 4 cost (2 after Rosinante's discount) it slots in once your board has a reason to want extra DON!! in play.

Mid game: Once Rosinante's leader ability is live, playing OP16-068 at the discounted cost adds a DON!! card from your DON!! deck onto the field active, which is close to a one-turn tempo boost on top of whatever else you played that turn. Sequence it on a turn where you want to commit to a bigger secondary play immediately after.

Combat: OP16-068's own attack trigger only fires the extra +3000 power if your leader carries the Donquixote Pirates type. Check your specific leader's printed type line before counting on that bonus. Even without it, a 3000-power Character with a 1000 counter for 2 effective DON!! is a reasonable rate.

If it would be KO'd: This is where Rosinante's second leader clause matters. Instead of just losing OP16-068 to removal, Rosinante lets you add a card from the top of your Life cards to your hand. That turns an opponent's removal spell into a partial refund, which is a meaningfully different risk calculation than most Character cards give you.

If You Want an Actual Law Leader Deck

Law does have real leader cards, just not in OP-16. The only one currently standard-legal is OP10-022 Trafalgar Law (Green/Yellow), from the Royal Blood set. It runs a Supernova combo shell: build a field with 5 or more total Character cost, return a Character to hand, reveal the top Life card, and play it free if it is a Supernova costing 5 or less. That deck has a real competitive history, 18 tournament placings and 2 wins, and it does have at least one confirmed OP-16-era result now: a 2nd-place finish at Regional Peoria, IL, after OP-16's June 12 launch. Most of its placings still predate OP-16, though, so it is fair to call it an underdog pick right now rather than a proven current-format deck. The full breakdown, including the exact leader text and a sourced decklist, is in the GY Law deck guide.

Law has also had a leader banned outright. ST10-001 Trafalgar Law (Red/Purple), from the Ultra Deck: The Three Captains, was banned from both Standard and Extra formats in September 2024 after its removal-and-redeploy engine, paired with a specific support card, dominated the JP and APAC metagame. A third Law leader, OP01-002 (Red/Green), still exists but has rotated out of Standard and is Extra-format only. None of the three has anything to do with the DON!!-stripping ability this guide previously described.

None of this changes with OP-17. "The World's Strongest Warriors" releases in Japan August 22 and reaches EN wide release August 28, and both OP16-030 and OP16-068 stay legal, as does Rosinante's OP12-061 leader card, since a set launch does not retroactively remove standard-legal cards on its own. The open question for Rosinante pilots is whether any of OP-17's six new leaders print hard removal or a faster clock that punishes a deck built around protecting a 4-cost Character. The OP-17 OP-16 crossover format guide covers what's known so far about how the incoming set reshapes the current top of the format.

Tips

Do not build a 50-card deck around either OP16-030 or OP16-068 alone. Neither card supports a full archetype on its own; they are role players in decks led by someone else.

If you are building Purple/Yellow Rosinante and want to test OP16-068, start with 2 copies, matching the confirmed tournament list, before deciding whether to go higher.

Check your leader's printed type line before relying on OP16-068's Donquixote Pirates attack bonus. A lot of players assume it triggers automatically off any Purple leader, and it does not.

If your actual goal is "play a deck led by Trafalgar Law," that is a different card and a different set. Go straight to OP10-022 and the GY Law build rather than looking for a Law leader that does not exist in OP-16.

Related Reading

• OP-16 Complete Guide: Full set overview and key mechanics for context on where these two Law cards sit.
• OP-16 Best Cards to Pull: Chase & Value Guide (2026): The actual chase and value cards in the set, for comparison against OP16-030 and OP16-068's Rare and Common rarities.
• OP-17 Spoilers Complete Tracker: Every confirmed OP-17 leader, card, and release detail as spoilers drop.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Trafalgar Law a leader in OP-16? No. OP-16's six confirmed leaders are Ace, Luffy, Buggy, Sengoku, Yamato, and Blackbeard. Law only appears as two Character cards in this set, OP16-030 (Green) and OP16-068 (Purple), and neither has a leader ability.

What does OP16-030 Trafalgar Law do? It is a Green, cost-8, 9000-power Character. On Play, it stops one of the opponent's rested Characters from becoming active on their next Refresh Phase. At the End of Your Turn, it sets your own Green Characters costing 5 or less as active.

What does OP16-068 Trafalgar Law do? It is a Purple, cost-4, 3000-power Character with a +1000 counter. On Play, it adds up to 1 DON!! card from your DON!! deck and sets it active. When Attacking, it gains +3000 power that turn if your Leader has the Donquixote Pirates type.

Which OP-16 deck actually plays Trafalgar Law? Purple/Yellow Rosinante. Its leader, OP12-061, discounts the next Trafalgar Law card costing 4 or more by 2 DON!! each turn and protects a Trafalgar Law from being KO'd. OP16-068 is a confirmed 2-of in tournament-placing Rosinante lists.

Is there a real Trafalgar Law leader deck right now? Yes, but not in OP-16. OP10-022 Trafalgar Law (Green/Yellow, Royal Blood) is the only standard-legal Law leader and runs a Supernova combo deck. It has 18 tournament placings and at least one confirmed OP-16-era result, a 2nd-place finish at Regional Peoria, IL.

How much do OP16-030 and OP16-068 cost? OP16-030 is a Rare and OP16-068 is a Common, neither a chase card. Prices shift week to week, so check TCGPlayer for current market rates rather than a fixed number here.

References

• OP16-030 Trafalgar Law, Limitless TCG: official card text, rarity, and tournament decklist usage
• OP16-068 Trafalgar Law, Limitless TCG: official card text, rarity, and decklist placements under Rosinante
• OP12-061 Rosinante, Limitless TCG: the leader ability that discounts and protects Trafalgar Law cards
• One Piece TCG official card list: source for confirming OP-16's six actual leaders and both Law card texts
• New One Piece Card Game Bans Trafalgar Law, One Piece Player: coverage of the September 2024 ST10-001 Law leader ban
• TCGPlayer One Piece TCG: card pricing reference