Blue Yellow Nami Decklist: #1 on Limitless, 2 of 738 in EB05

We looked at what OP11-041OP11-041Shop on TCGplayer actually did in the events since. Limitless Play's public API gave us every OP event with 16 or more players, split by the format tag in the event name. The result is not subtle, and it comes with two lists you can still copy.

What the "#1" is counting

The Limitless deck rankings rank by points and show the share of those points. Their header carries a banner for EB05 and OP18, but the table itself is filtered to OP16 and lists Nami first, then Green/Blue Luffy at 22.91% and Purple Enel at 22.71%. Nami's own page reads "175 placings, including 10 wins", and the four most recent events it shows are Treasure Cups and a Regional from July 25 and 26.

Points reward placings, so that share is not the same thing as a share of players. We counted something simpler: of the entrants whose leader Limitless knows, how many brought OP11-041.

Chart: Shonen TCG. Source: Limitless Play API, events with 16 or more players, counted November 9, 2026.

Before OP-17 (July 1 to August 16, events without an OP17 or EB05 tag) Nami was 94 of 1,605 known entrants, 5.9%, with 21 top-8 finishes. In the 22 events tagged [OP17] it was 1 of 1,522. In the seven [OP17.5] events, October 1 to 15, it was 1 of 330. Bandai's Mihawk ban (OP14-020 Dracule Mihawk, announced September 24) took effect on October 12, so only the last few days of that window fall after it. In the twelve [EB05] events from October 19 to November 4 it was 2 of 738. Its record against other leaders went from 194-199 before OP-17 to 2-1, 2-2 and finally 3-6 in EB05.

That is a 5.9% deck turning into a 0.3% deck, and the Limitless table has not caught up because points from July are still in it.

The two EB05 lists

Both lists are from the first two days of the format, ChinoizeCup #124 on October 19 and #125 on October 20. kondoriano98 went 1-2 of 128 players, and argonautt went 2-4 of 120. Neither has a final placing in the standings, and no Nami list showed up in any event after October 20.

They overlap on 35 of 50 cards, and the shared part is a Thriller Bark engine around Life cards. As we read the Bandai card text, OP14-111OP14-111Shop on TCGplayer Perona and Kumacy (OP14-102) both carry a Trigger that plays a Thriller Bark Pirates Character with a cost of 4 or less from the trash, so the deck wants to lose Life and lose small Characters. OP14-104OP14-104Shop on TCGplayer Gecko Moria then plays one of those back or puts it face-up on top of your Life. Once per turn in your turn, the leader draws a card when a Life card leaves, while you hold 7 or fewer cards.

Image credit: Bandai via the official One Piece Card Game card list (sample images).

Both lists play 4 each of Kumacy, Perona, Gecko Moria, Nami EB03-053, Nico Robin EB03-055 and Borsalino EB04-058, plus 3 or 4 Dr. Hogback and 3 or 4 Edward.Newgate (OP13-042). EB04-058EB04-058Shop on TCGplayer Borsalino is a Blocker whose On Play adds, at 2 or fewer Life, the top card of your deck to your Life. The flex slots differ: #124 plays 4 Girl (P-096), 2 Boa Hancock (EB05-028) and 2 Sanji; #125 plays 4 Nefeltari Vivi, 3 Zoro (OP15-113) and a pair of Luffy OP15-119.

Chart: Shonen TCG. Prices: TCGplayer market data via TCGCSV, file of November 8, 2026.

The #124 list costs $324.32 and the #125 list $341.64, leader excluded ($0.23). Four cards are 84% and 80% of those totals, and one of them, Borsalino, is $140 on its own. At those prices the cheap, reliable cards are the ones in the Thriller Bark package: Kumacy $0.14, Perona $0.40, Dr. Hogback $1.02. For the cards themselves see our EB-05 card list.

What we'd do

We would not build this for an EB-05 tournament, and we wouldn't have picked it up on October 19 either. Our reasoning: a deck that was 1 of 1,522 entrants in OP-17 and then 2 of 738 once EB05 arrived isn't being kept off the table by a lack of lists, since players have had two months. The two lists we found play the same engine and went 3-6 between them against other leaders. Our EB05 matchup chart has the decks Nami has to get past.

If you already own four Borsalino and four EB03 Nami, the build is mostly sunk cost, and it is a fun hand-size puzzle. That's a reason to build it for a casual table, not for a ranked event. Our older Blue Yellow Nami guide explains the turn pattern and is still the better read for how the deck plays.

What the community expected

A r/OnePieceTCG thread about whether Nami OP11 could come back after the Mihawk OP14 ban was already pessimistic. It was posted on September 29, before the ban took effect. Bastelbogen wrote: "Mihawk was Xebecs worst Matchup and now there are a lot of Xebecs running around. Sadly Nami has a really bad Matchup into him." Pichuka7 was blunter: "She is no Slash Leader and there are plenty of decks in the Top 10 she struggles with". Wonderful-Grand4698 thought she "will need new kit".

The optimists were few. Ok-Ear837 answered "The hate is insane, but yeah I think so, I do think people are stuck on a deck list you'll have to move on from tho." The thread's author said "Oh no, I don't want her to come back", and then, replying to Pichuka7, argued that Nami is a Straw Hat Crew leader and "Skilled players could come up with new decklists adapted to the new meta." A month and a half later, the EB05 events show two such lists, one 1-2 and one 2-4. The pessimists were closer.

What we don't know

Two lists are two lists. 3-6 is nine games, and neither player went deep, so we cannot say whether the deck is bad or whether these two players were. These are online, best-of-one Swiss events: we can't see turn order, mulligans or what each player was practising for. The "before OP-17" window is every event without a newer tag, so it may include a few unlabelled events played under other rules, and the OP17 and EB05 windows only contain events whose organiser tagged them. We didn't look at paper tournaments, Japan, or events after November 4, and we don't know why the Limitless table is still filtered to OP16 by default. Prices are TCGplayer market prices as of the November 8 file and move daily.

How we checked: event standings and pairings from the Limitless Play API (scripts/sims/optcg-nami-share-by-format.py counts entrants by the deck Limitless attached to each entry; optcg-eb05-leader-cost-and-lists.py reads the lists), card text from the Bandai English card list, prices from TCGCSV (TCGplayer data), forum quotes read on the thread pages on November 9. Prices: TCGplayer market data via TCGCSV.