Shirahoshi EB05 Decklist: The Green Yellow Deck After EB-05

TL;DR: OP11-022OP11-022Shop on TCGplayer Shirahoshi (Green/Yellow, 5 Life) plays a Neptunian or Megalo from your hand for free, once a turn, if its cost is no higher than your DON!! count. EB-05 adds EB05-014EB05-014Shop on TCGplayer Shirahoshi (dig five for two Neptunians) and EB05-020EB05-020Shop on TCGplayer My name is Shirahoshi!! (rest your Leader: draw 2). Because the Leader can't attack anyway, that draw is free. All 18 Shirahoshi lists in the EB-05 events ran four of the Event. The deck went 28-20 against the field and 4-11 against Blue Rocks.

Image credit: Bandai via the official One Piece Card Game card list (OP11-022) and Limitless TCG card pages (EB05-014, EB05-020).

The Shirahoshi EB05 decklist (6-1, 3rd of 120)

This is kevyzhou's list from ChinoizeCup #125, a best-of-one online event on Limitless Play. It's the best finish any Shirahoshi player managed in the four events that allowed EB-05 cards, and it sits close to the average of all 18 lists, so it's a safe base. Prices are Limitless TCGplayer prices on October 23. EB-05 isn't out until October 30, so its cards have no price yet.

As a plain list:

• 4x Shirahoshi (EB05-014)
• 3x Shirahoshi (OP12-102)
• 3x Shirahoshi (EB03-052)
• 4x Spotted Neptunian (OP11-036)
• 4x Megalo (EB04-018)
• 2x Lord of the Coast (OP11-028)
• 4x Topknot Neptunian (OP11-107)
• 4x Bird Neptunian (EB04-016)
• 4x Bird Neptunian (OP11-033)
• 4x Scaled Neptunian (EB04-011)
• 3x Sweet 3 Generals (OP17-114)
• 3x Shanks (OP17-022)
• 4x My name is Shirahoshi!! (EB05-020)
• 2x You're Just Not My Type! (OP11-115)
• 2x Electrical Luna (OP08-036)

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Megalo, Shanks and Electrical Luna come to $33.96 of the $42.15. Every other card is under $1.20.

What the Leader actually does

The official text has two lines. "This Leader cannot attack." Then: "[Activate: Main] [Once Per Turn] You may rest 1 of your DON!! cards and turn 1 card from the top of your Life cards face-up: Play up to 1 {Neptunian} type Character card or [Megalo] with a cost equal to or less than the number of DON!! cards on your field from your hand."

So each turn you rest one DON!! and show one Life card, and a Neptunian enters play without you paying its cost. Going second you have 4 DON!! on turn 2, so a 4-cost Megalo or Spotted Neptunian comes down for one DON!!. Going first you get there on turn 3 with 5 DON!!. From then on it's a second Character every turn, and by 7 DON!! it's Scaled Neptunian.

The catch is the first line. With no Leader attacks, every point of pressure has to come from Characters, and you're a full attacker behind from turn 1. As u/ideal_Bat put it on r/OnePieceTCG, "you're instantly down a leader swing so you have to play the cards that let you flood board to attack and restand asap".

What EB-05 changed

My name is Shirahoshi!! reads "[Main] You may rest your Leader [Shirahoshi]: Draw 2 cards." For almost any other Leader, resting it means giving up the attack that turn. Shirahoshi never had that attack, so this is a 1-cost draw 2 with no drawback. That's why all 18 Shirahoshi lists ran exactly four.

EB05-014 Shirahoshi is a 1-cost, 0-power Character: "[On Play] Look at 5 cards from the top of your deck; reveal up to a total of 2 [Megalo] or {Neptunian} type cards and add them to your hand. Then, trash the rest." Its second line gives a 6000-or-less Neptunian Rush for the turn, which helps the problem above: a Megalo or Topknot played by the Leader can attack right away. It ran in all 18 lists too, at 3.72 copies on average.

To put a number on it, we ran kevyzhou's list through 100,000 games per side. The question: from your first 4-DON!! turn, can the Leader drop a Neptunian on that turn and on each of the next two? Then we ran the same games with the 8 EB-05 slots left blank.

The deck was already consistent: it runs 26 Neptunian or Megalo targets. What EB-05 does is cut the bad starts going second from about 1 game in 10 to 1 in 30, and the model ignores the other search cards, so the real numbers are a little higher. The bigger gain is cards in hand. Two extra cards for one DON!! each turn is what lets the deck pay counters and still drop a body.

Why each card is there

The Shirahoshi package. OP12-102OP12-102Shop on TCGplayer the 2-cost Shirahoshi protects your board: when a 6-cost-or-less Character would be removed by the opponent's effect, you may turn a Life card face-up instead, and on the opponent's turn your Neptunians get +2000. EB03-052EB03-052Shop on TCGplayer the 3-cost one trashes itself to put the top of your deck onto your Life and give Neptunians +1000. That second card refills the Life the Leader keeps flipping.

The 4-cost bodies. OP11-036OP11-036Shop on TCGplayer Spotted Neptunian digs five for a Neptunian or a Shirahoshi. EB04-018EB04-018Shop on TCGplayer Megalo rests itself to K.O. an opponent's rested Character with 8000 power or less. OP11-028OP11-028Shop on TCGplayer Lord of the Coast keeps a rested Character from standing up next turn. All three are 4 cost, so the Leader can play any of them on its first activation.

Image credit: Bandai via the official One Piece Card Game card list.

The 5 to 7 costs. OP11-107OP11-107Shop on TCGplayer Topknot Neptunian is a 6000 Blocker that turns a Life card face-down to set itself active at the end of your turn, so it attacks and still blocks. EB04-016EB04-016Shop on TCGplayer the 5-cost Bird Neptunian sets a DON!! active and, with three Neptunians out, rests an opponent's Character of cost 8 or less when it attacks. OP11-033OP11-033Shop on TCGplayer the 6-cost Bird is a vanilla 7000 with a 2000 counter. EB04-011EB04-011Shop on TCGplayer Scaled Neptunian has Rush against Characters and draws one card per Neptunian you control, then trashes the same number.

The top end. OP17-022OP17-022Shop on TCGplayer Shanks costs 10, has Rush, sets 2 DON!! active and rests every opposing Character. It isn't a Neptunian, so you pay for it, and 17 of the 18 lists still ran it. OP17-114OP17-114Shop on TCGplayer Sweet 3 Generals draws a card, adds one to Life and gives two Characters −3000.

The Events. OP11-115OP11-115Shop on TCGplayer You're Just Not My Type! is a +4000 Counter with a Shirahoshi Leader. OP08-036OP08-036Shop on TCGplayer Electrical Luna keeps every rested opposing Character of cost 7 or less from standing up next turn. Pair it with Bird's rest effect or Shanks and the opponent's board misses a whole turn.

Flex slots: what the other 17 lists did

Nine cards ran in all 18 lists: Megalo, Topknot, the 5-cost Bird and Scaled at four copies in every list, Spotted Neptunian at 3.94, both EB-05 cards and the 2- and 3-cost Shirahoshi. The choices are in the last dozen slots.

Sweet 3 Generals is the only Big Mom card that made it. Before EB-05, Reddit argued about adding the full Big Mom package, and u/hamstertitan_5's reply got the most upvotes: "I don't think shirahoshi has ever wanted the big mom package she kind of needs her own cards with the exception of pudding". The lists agree: none of the 18 ran the OP-17 Pudding or Linlin.

Shirahoshi matchups in the first EB-05 events

Every game the 18 lists played, by opposing Leader, from the pairings on Limitless Play. The two ChinoizeCup nights had 128 and 120 players over seven Swiss rounds; all four events were best-of-one on the simulator.

Image credit: Shonen TCG chart from Limitless Play pairings, ChinoizeCup #124, #125, #126 and Rumble league #14, October 19-22, 2026.

Blue Rocks is the problem. OP17-039OP17-039Shop on TCGplayer Rocks.D.Xebec accounted for 15 of Shirahoshi's 63 games and won 11. Rocks is also the deck our OP-17 meta tier list has on top after the Mihawk ban, so you will meet it. Against everything else Shirahoshi went 28-20.

The good news is the middle of the field. ST30-001ST30-001Shop on TCGplayer Luffy & Ace, the other top deck, went 3-6 against it. Sabo, Rosinante and Law were 0-4 each, and Buggy 1-4. Small samples, but they point the same way: decks that need their board to stick have trouble when Megalo and Bird keep resting and K.O.'ing it.

The trend is worth watching. The two big ChinoizeCup nights went 32-22. The next two events, both smaller, went 0-9, and all five of those players dropped within two rounds. Four events say the deck is playable, and that's as far as they go.

How to pilot it

1. Mulligan for action. Keep a hand with a 4-cost Neptunian or Megalo, or with either EB-05 card. The model above mulligans anything else and still almost never misses.
2. Spend early DON!! on the 1-costs. EB05-014 and the draw Event both cost one. On the turn before your first activation, they find the target; on activation turns, keep one DON!! back for the Leader.
3. Flip Life on purpose. Every activation shows a Life card. Topknot can turn one back face-down, and EB03-052 adds a new one on top.
4. Don't play it like aggro. u/Fair-Occasion4052 on r/OnePieceTCG: "GY Shirahoshi lives and dies by knowing when to swing and when to just sit there building hand". Build the board, then use Electrical Luna or Shanks to take a turn away and swing.

Not everyone is convinced. u/pongleme, who plays the deck, wrote that "until they take away the "can't attack" she will forever be a rogue choice". The 4-11 Rocks record says that's still fair.

Watch it played

FuTabby's video on the EB-05 version, posted October 15, goes through the new draw engine in games.

Our take

We'd build it. For about $42 plus four EB-05 Super Rares and four Rares, you get a deck that almost never stumbles and so far is 16-1 against Sabo, Rosinante, Law and Buggy combined. The one thing to check before a tournament is how much Blue Rocks your store plays. If it's a third of the room, take something else. If you're looking for a store event where Rocks isn't legal at all, Shirahoshi is one of the 25 Leaders allowed in Heroines Battle Vol.2 from November 6, and the EB-05 card list shows which other Leaders the set helps.

EB-05 cards become legal for most events from November 6, per the "Tournament Legal after 7 days" note on Bandai's EB-05 product page. The same page also says they're legal from your region's pre-release date, so ask your store.

How we checked this: card text from Limitless TCG card pages and Bandai's official card list; lists, records and pairings from the Limitless Play public API for the four EB-05 card-pool events (October 19-22, 2026, 18 Shirahoshi lists); prices from Limitless card pages on October 23, 2026; the test-hand table from 100,000 simulated games per side and per version, one run with a fixed seed (scripts/sims/optcg-shirahoshi-eb05.py, seed 20261023), turn and DON!! rules from Bandai's comprehensive rules.