Is Azuki’s Displace like Blue’s bounce removal in One Piece?
PartlyPartly. Both scale by cost to clear Blocker or Defender units without K.O.’ing them, though One Piece splits bounce (Blue) and enemy cost reduction (Black) across two colors while Azuki puts Rainworn Gate cost reduction and Displace together in Water.
Displace in the Azuki TCG
Displace moves an entity from the Garden to its owner’s Alley, and its card effects do not activate. Weapons can’t be attached to cards in the Alley, so our read, pending a ruling, is that a displaced entity’s weapons go to the discard pile. Because only one entity per turn can portal back through the Gate — entering the Garden with Cooldown — Displace clears Defenders and slows wide boards without putting cards back in hand.
The same
- Most Displace cards check cost (1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 or less), so lowering an enemy card’s cost widens what you can remove.
- Moving a Blocker or Defender out of the combat zone opens a clean swing at the Leader.
Different
- In One Piece, cost-based bounce and bottom-decking belong to Blue while enemy cost reduction belongs to Black (paired in Blue/Black multicolor decks). Azuki puts both Rainworn Gate’s cost reduction and Displace in mono-Water, alongside true return-to-hand bounce.
- One Piece has no Alley row; returned Characters go to hand or the bottom of the deck. Displaced Azuki entities stay visible in the Alley, where Alley-counting Water cards and Alley attackers like Stormcaller Tenkichi can exploit them.
One Piece TCG: checked against the One Piece Card Game Comprehensive Rules. Azuki TCG: printed card text and the rules.
