EB-05 Matchup Chart: Who Beats Red/Green Luffy? (Nov 2026)

What changed is one card. Of the 76 OP13-001OP13-001Shop on TCGplayer Red/Green Luffy lists in our count, 74 play four EB05-001EB05-001Shop on TCGplayer Jewelry Bonney, and the chart below says the deck is worth it: 61% of its games against other leaders, and Yellow Enel is the only leader among the eight most played that beats it.

Every number here comes from the nine [EB05]-tagged Standard-format events on Limitless Play with posted decklists, October 19 to November 4, 2026: 558 players and 1,118 games between different leaders, all best-of-one Swiss on the simulator. Smaller untagged events are not counted. Mirrors, byes and ties are left out. We dropped ChinoizeCup #126, #129 and #132 because they played the Extra format. Our window ends November 4, so nothing newer is in here. For the format before EB-05, see our OP-17 matchup chart.

The EB-05 matchup chart

Chart: Shonen TCG. Source: Limitless Play standings and pairings for nine EB-05 events, October 19 to November 4, 2026.

Read across a row: that's the row leader's wins and losses against the column leader. Cells under eight games are grey, because one opening hand swings a best-of-one sample that small. The table has the eight most-played leaders, their record against other leaders, and their best and worst pairing among those with eight or more games.

OP17-039OP17-039Shop on TCGplayer Blue Rocks is still the leader you'll see most, 98 of 558 players, and it finished below even. Red/Green Luffy is above even against six of the other seven leaders in the chart. Enel is the exception.

One card is the whole deck

Bandai's text on EB05-001EB05-001Shop on TCGplayer Bonney: "[On Play] If your Leader has the {Supernovas} type, draw 2 cards and play up to 2 Character cards with 2000 power or less from your hand." Red/Green Luffy is a Supernovas leader, so for her 5 cost it draws two and puts up to two cheap Characters on the board. Only one other leader in the count plays her: all 14 Red Trafalgar Law lists do. Not one of the 98 Rocks lists has her, and only 12 of the 98 hold any EB-05 card (all Boa Hancock). Of the 40 Enel lists, 8 do.

Image credit: Bandai via the official card list (EB05-001 and OP13-001).

Feno put it plainly in his October 31 deck profile: "this is obviously the star of the show. The deck is not playable without it." The price is the catch. TCGplayer's market price for the regular Super Rare was $10.32 in the file published on the evening of November 7 (UTC), lowest listing $8.66, so a playset costs about $41 at market. That's what the deck's engine costs, and it's the reason we'd start from this deck rather than a cheaper one.

He opened the same video by calling Luffy "the only deck in the meta". On tournament numbers that's a stretch: one player in seven overall, three in ten at the peak (November 2). It was still the deck with the most top-8 places, 20 of 72 across the nine events.

Rocks led for three events, then stopped

The matchup everyone asks about is Luffy against Rocks, and it flipped. In the first three events (October 19 to 22) Rocks won it 9-6. In the six events since, Luffy leads 31-15. Car D. Kaizoku, in a video uploaded on October 27, said "I think at the moment rocks is one of your hardest matchups." That fit the first week's games. It doesn't fit the ones after it.

Add the whole count up and it's 37-24 for Luffy, 61 games. With a sample that size, 61% really means "somewhere between 48% and 73%". The other big dataset disagrees on the direction: opdecks.xyz, counting ranked games from TCG Match Making up to November 5, has Rocks at 51.5% against Luffy. Different players, different pool. Our verdict is that this matchup is a toss-up that has leaned Luffy's way lately, and that Luffy's lead comes from everywhere else on the chart: Buggy 16-5, Sabo 10-5, Kaido 10-5, Luffy & Ace 10-2.

Yellow Enel was the counter, until it wasn't

OP05-098OP05-098Shop on TCGplayer Yellow Enel is the only leader in the chart with a clear winning record against both of the big two: 25-10 against Rocks and 21-10 against Red/Green Luffy. Car D. Kaizoku named it, with Rocks, as one of Luffy's two checks. It also won Rumble league #15 on October 29 and took 11 of the 72 top-8 places, second to Luffy.

The late numbers are weaker. Against Luffy, Enel went 3-1, then 13-3, then 5-6 in the November 2 to 4 events. Against Rocks it went 2-3 in those events. That's 16 games, and nobody should call a trend on 16 games. What it does say is that the 68% against Luffy leans on the October 26 to 29 events, where Enel won 13 of its 21 games. Against Rocks the first two periods were equally strong (11-3, then 12-4) and the last was 2-3.

Feno says Enel isn't the answer: "I know some people are saying the yellow [Enel] is good against it. That's not been in my experience." opdecks.xyz has Enel at 48.8% against Luffy in ranked play, which sides with him. We'd still register Enel if our room were Rocks and Luffy. It needs no EB-05 cards in 32 of 40 lists, and OP17-112OP17-112Shop on TCGplayer Charlotte Linlin is in all 40; the Yellow Enel deck guide has two winning lists.

Image credit: Bandai via the official card list (OP05-098 and OP17-039).

Buggy, Sabo, Rosinante and Kaido

OP09-042OP09-042Shop on TCGplayer Buggy beat Rocks 19-15 and Enel 8-3, but lost 5-16 to Red/Green Luffy; our EB05 Buggy decklist has the build. Sabo went 8-14 against Rocks and 5-10 against Luffy, and Luffy & Ace lost 2-10 to Luffy, so none of the three is a pick this week. Rosinante sits near even against everyone except Sabo (3-9). Kaido beat Rocks 10-6 and Enel 6-3, and lost 5-10 to Luffy.

Black Teach: 7-0 on four players

The pairing with the best record against Red/Green Luffy has too few players to chart. Black Teach (OP09-081) had four players in the nine events, a 14-6 record against other leaders, and 7-0 against Red/Green Luffy. One of them won ChinoizeCup #130 on November 2. Feno called Teach "the only bad match up" for his Luffy list, and opdecks.xyz puts Teach at 75.3% against Luffy, so three sources point the same way. Four players is not a deck, but if Luffy keeps climbing, it's the one to watch.

What we'd register

If you own Bonney or can spend $41, register Red/Green Luffy: it has the best record, the most top-8 places and one bad pairing. If you can't, register Yellow Enel before Rocks. Rocks is the deck everyone brings, 49% against the field, and it has lost its edge on Luffy. Our Red/Green Luffy deck guide predates Bonney, so build from a recent list on Limitless Play.

What we don't know: how this carries to paper. Bandai lists EB-05 as "Tournament Legal after 7 days" from its October 30 release, and OP-18 releases on November 20 under the same rule. The online ChinoizeCup moved to the EB-05 pool eleven days before EB-05's release, so expect this chart to date quickly. For every EB-05 card, see our EB-05 card list.

How we checked this: we pulled the standings and round-by-round pairings for all nine [EB05]-tagged Standard-format events from Limitless Play's public API on November 8, matched each player to their leader and counted every decided game.