Rosinante EB-05 Deck: The 26-Cent Event in All 27 Lists

It costs $0.26, so a playset is about $1.04 at TCGplayer market. Whether it made Rosinante good is a different question, and the games say not yet: the 27 lists went 62-64 against other leaders.

The numbers come from the nine [EB05]-tagged Standard-format Limitless Play events with posted decklists, October 19 to November 4, 2026: 558 players, all best-of-one Swiss on the simulator. Smaller untagged events are not counted. We left out the three [EGB + EB05] events (#126, #129 and #132), because they run the Extra format. The "before" baseline is the five OP-17 post-ban events of October 12 to 15 (166 players). Our window ends November 4. The two events on November 5 that posted decklists (Versus Cup and a German OP17.5 event) had no Rosinante lists, so nothing newer is counted. The older Navy build is in our Rosinante deck guide, the set is in the EB-05 card list, and the leader-by-leader table is in our EB-05 matchup chart.

The 50 cards of the best Rosinante finish

The highest Swiss finish for a Rosinante list in the nine events was second place at ChinoizeCup #125 on October 20 (120 players, 6-1). It is the "Sugar" build: four OP10-065 Sugar searchers, which 12 of the 27 lists run. The last column shows how many of the 27 lists hold the same card.

Eleven of the 16 rows are in at least 26 of the 27 lists. The core is not up for debate: Law in three versions, Borsalino, Rosinante & Law, Sakazuki, Mamaragan, I Love You!!, Marineford. What changes between lists is the flex: Sugar or no Sugar, and which one-ofs.

Image credit: Bandai via the official card list (OP12-061 and EB05-040).

What the event pushed out

Bandai's text on EB05-040: "[Main] You may return 1 of your active DON!! cards to your DON!! deck: If your Leader has the {Donquixote Pirates} type, draw 3 cards and trash 1 card from your hand. [Counter] Your Leader gains +2000 power during this battle." It is a draw spell in your turn and a counter in theirs, and Rosinante is a {Donquixote Pirates} Leader, so the draw always works.

The slots came from one-of tech. Average copies per list, before and after:

Chart: Shonen TCG. Source: Limitless Play decklists, 10 lists on October 12 to 15 and 27 lists on October 19 to November 4.

X.Drake went from 1.60 copies per list (8 of 10 lists) to zero. Divine Departure fell from 1.80 to 0.56, Gum-Gum Lightning from 1.90 to 0.74, "Buddha" Sengoku from 0.80 to zero and Tsuru from 0.80 to 0.04. Four Sugar (OP10-065) is the other gain, +1.78 copies per list.

SkepasG, who posted a Rosinante deck profile on November 3, makes the case in arithmetic: "now we have eight 2ks". Four EB05-040 plus four I Love You!! are eight +2000 counters in 25 of the 27 lists, and seven in the other two. He also warns against filling the freed slots with one-ofs: "try to avoid playing one-offs that are good in the early game. They don't make sense."

Tier one again? The record says 62-64

On October 9, three weeks before EB-05's English release on October 30, AkanoTCG called the Event a tier-one maker: "I think this card makes the deck become tier one again." The nine events don't back that up. Rosinante had 27 players, a 62-64 record against other leaders (49%), five top-8 places out of 72 and no first place.

Chart: Shonen TCG. Source: Limitless Play pairings for nine EB-05 events, October 19 to November 4, 2026; matchups under 8 games are left out.

SkepasG's own read is that Luffy is the only deck that beats him: "My only losses are to RG Luffy. I have not lost to a single other deck." He calls Rocks a "pretty good matchup". In our games Rocks was the bigger problem: 12-15 overall, and 2-8 in the first four days (October 19 to 22). It turned in the last three events (6-2). Sabo was worse than either, 3-9, but 11 of those 12 games were played from October 19 to 22; Sabo had 6 lists across the last six events.

That's about two weeks of simulator Swiss, not paper, and a pilot who says a matchup is fine and a record that says otherwise can both be right: SkepasG says "I play against other people I know", while our count is every non-mirror game of the 27 Rosinante lists. We'd weigh the record. Rosinante is a solid shell with a bad start against Rocks and Sabo, not a deck to pick because you want to beat Luffy.

What it costs

The Event is the cheap part. TCGplayer's market price for the regular printing of EB05-040 was $0.26 in the TCGCSV file published on the evening of November 7 (UTC), lowest listing $0.09, so four copies cost about $1.04. The other new Sugar, EB05-034, was $1.10 market, and only 5 of the 27 lists play it (one or two copies each).

The Sugar searcher is the real flex decision. SkepasG shows a Sugar version and says he's not a fan: "I'm not the biggest fan to be honest because it sees this card less often." The best finish in the nine events was a four-Sugar list, and 12 of 27 lists run it, so the field is split.

We didn't price the rest of the 50. P-088 and P-093 are promo cards and cost the same whether or not you play the new Event.

Our pick: if you already own the Navy core, buy four EB05-040 today and keep the one-ofs to two slots at most. If you don't, price the Laws and the Navy cards first and read the 49% before you start.

What we haven't seen

None of our 27 lists is from a paper event. Limitless's own page for the leader still lists OP16-era placings and an OP16 core-card table, so it can't be compared with ours.