Nico Robin EB05-010 deck: decklist and guide (November 2026)

Nico Robin EB05-010 is the only new Leader in EB-05: green/yellow, with the Wisdom attribute, and an effect that adds to your Life and lets the same Character attack twice. It doesn't have a settled list yet. This guide covers the Leader, the game plan, the best-performing list so far, the two versions being tested, mulligans and the first matchup data.

A warning: everything below is early and experimental. The data comes from online tournaments from 19 October to 2 November 2026, with only a handful of lists. For the rest of the meta, check our tier list of the best One Piece TCG decks.

What the Nico Robin EB05-010 Leader does

It is a green/yellow Leader with 4 Life and 5000 power, with the Wisdom attribute and the Straw Hat Crew type. Its official English text reads:

"[Once Per Turn] When one of your Characters with the <Wisdom> attribute and without [Blocker] is K.O.'d, add up to 1 card from the top of your deck to the top of your Life cards. [Activate: Main] [Once Per Turn] Set up to 1 of your Characters with the <Wisdom> attribute and 6000 power or less as active."

In plain terms, two effects, each once per turn. First: when one of your Wisdom Characters without Blocker is K.O.'d, you add the top card of your deck to your Life. Second: in your Main Phase, you can set a Wisdom Character with 6000 power or less as active again. Careful: any DON!! you have given it count towards that limit, so set it as active before you attach DON!!.

How to play Nico Robin EB05-010: early, mid and late game

Robin is a midrange deck that wins on resources. Your Wisdom Characters attack, the Leader sets them as active again to attack a second time or to defend, and when your opponent K.O.s them you get Life back.

Early game (turns 1 to 3)

• Turns 1 and 2: search with Atlas EB05-050, which looks at 4 cards and takes a Wisdom one, or draw 3 with Charlotte Pudding by trashing a card with Trigger.
• With 4 Life you start behind: don't give Life away early.
• If you are unsure about the hand, keep it with Atlas, Robin EB05-016 or Pudding plus another Trigger card.

Mid game (turns 4 to 7)

• Turns 3 and 4: Megalo EB04-018 rests itself on play to K.O. a rested opposing Character with 8000 or less. Then the Leader sets it active again.
• Re-activate with the Leader before attaching DON!!: attached DON!! count towards the 6000 power limit.
• Turns 5 and 6: Nico Robin EB05-016 plays a cost 5 or less Wisdom Character from hand, usually Nami EB05-055, which adds a Life card.
• Every non-Blocker Wisdom Character they K.O. gives you a Life card: don't be afraid to trade.

Late game: how to close it out

• At 10 DON!! (Big Mom version): Charlotte Linlin OP17-112 draws, adds a Life card or takes one from your opponent and sets your 4000 Trigger Characters to 8000.
• Sweet 3 Generals gives −3000 to two opponents: use it to open the way on the finishing turn.
• Gloriosa EB05-052 can be sent to the trash instead of taking damage: save her for your opponent's last hit.

Mistakes that cost the most games

• Attaching DON!! to a Wisdom Character before re-activating it with the Leader.
• Giving away Life early with a 4-Life Leader.
• Against Buggy: Alvida EB05-021 negates effects when attacking; don't rely on a single Character.

The golden rule: with 4 Life you start behind, so don't give away Life early on.

Robin decklist: 2nd at Rumble League #14 (22 October 2026)

This is the list Ghiro used to finish 2nd at Rumble League #14, an online Limitless Play tournament with 24 players, with 3 wins, 1 loss and 1 draw. It is Robin's best result we have found, but the tournament was small: treat it as an early and experimental list, not the final version. It is the Big Mom version, with lots of Trigger cards.

Total: 50 cards plus the Leader (48 Characters and 2 Events).

Key cards and why they matter

• Nico Robin EB05-016: cost 6, 6000 power and Wisdom. On your turn, on play, she plays a Wisdom Character with cost 5 or less from your hand for free.
• Nami EB05-055: cost 5, 6000 power and Wisdom. On your turn, on play, she adds a card to your Life if your Leader is Wisdom. With Robin EB05-016, that is two Characters and one Life for 6 DON!!.
• Megalo EB04-018: cost 4 with a +2000 Counter. It rests itself on play to K.O. a rested opposing Character with 8000 power or less, and the Leader sets it as active again.
• Charlotte Pudding OP17-109: trash a card with Trigger to draw 3. All 13 Robin lists from the first tournaments ran 4.
• Sweet 3 Generals OP17-114: on your turn, on play, rest 2 DON!! to draw 1, add a card to your Life and give two opposing Characters -3000. Its Trigger plays it for free.
• Gloriosa EB05-052: a 6000-power Wisdom Character. If you would take damage, you can trash her instead.

Flex slots and options

Robin has two versions. The one above uses Big Mom cards from OP-17. The other, more focused on Wisdom, was played by volkiso (18th of 63 at ChinoizeCup #130, 2 November, 4-2) and willerd7 (14th of 69 at ChinoizeCup #126, 21 October, 4-2). They share Pudding, Baby 5, Megalo, Gloriosa, Nami, Borsalino, Sweet 3 Generals and Robin EB05-016, and swap the rest for:

• Lilith OP13-113: cost 1, Wisdom. Looks at 4 cards and takes one with Trigger. 4 copies.
• Nojiko EB05-057: cost 2 with a +2000 Counter. Once per turn, gives a rested DON!! to your Leader or to a Special or Wisdom Character. 4 copies.
• Silvers Rayleigh OP14-108: if your Leader is multicoloured and your opponent has 3 Life or fewer, K.O.s a Character with 7000 base power or less. 4 copies.
• Shanks OP17-022: cost 10 with Rush. On play it sets 2 DON!! as active and rests all your opponent's Characters, leaving them open to Megalo. 2 copies.
• You'll Frighten Me... ♡ OP14-118: an Event, 3 to 4 copies in this version.

If you want to test your own ratios, we show you how in how to build a One Piece TCG deck.

Mulligan

• Keep the hand if you have Atlas, Nico Robin EB05-016 or, in the Wisdom version, Lilith. This is the rule Shonen TCG's guide uses.
• Charlotte Pudding is fine too if you have another Trigger card to trash.
• Mulligan if all you have is cost 6+ cards and nothing that searches.

Matchups against the top decks

The first column is the online tournaments from 19 to 22 October: there Robin went 26-28-3 with 13 lists, the same figures as in our OP-18 meta forecast. The second is Robin's games at ChinoizeCups #127 and #130 (26 October and 2 November), where it went 12-10. Very small samples: treat them as hints.

In the first tournaments, Robin went 10-18 against Buggy, Sabo, Luffy & Ace and Rocks, and beat everything else. Against Rocks, late October went much better (5-1), but that is very few games. What does keep repeating is Buggy: its big Characters and Alvida EB05-021, which negates effects when attacking, are bad news for Robin. For now, it is not a deck for events full of Buggy and Sabo.

What EB-05 and OP-18 change

• EB-05 is Robin. The Leader and almost all of its Wisdom pieces (Robin EB05-016, Nami, Atlas, Gloriosa, Nojiko) came out in EB-05, which has been legal at Store Championships and regionals since 6 November 2026. Until now it has only been played online.
• Its opponents get better too. Buggy and Sabo are the decks that gain the most from EB-05, and they are two of Robin's worst matchups.
• OP-18 (20 November in English): there is already an official image of a green Nico Robin OP18-031, cost 4, with the W7 and Straw Hat Crew types. Going by the Japanese version, it protects your Characters from opposing effects and sets W7 cards and DON!! as active at the end of the turn. We don't know its attribute, so we can't say whether it fits this Leader. The English text is not confirmed yet.

Budget: which cards are expensive

Borsalino EB04-058One Piece Egghead Crisis · ENView in storeMarshall.D.Teach OP16-119One Piece The Time of Battle · ENView in storeMegalo (Alternate Art) EB04-018One Piece Egghead Crisis · ENView in store

In its regular printings, Robin is cheap. The EB05-010 Leader was going for around $0.10 on TCGplayer on 6 November 2026; Nico Robin EB05-016, the key Super Rare, for about $5.70 on 4 November, and the regular Nami EB05-055 for about $3 on 3 November. The expensive part is the special versions: the Leader's parallel was around $64, the SP Robin EB05-016 about $450 and the Leader's super parallel was over $1,000. In a set's first week, prices move a lot.

Since the list isn't settled yet, buy the cards both versions share first, and test the rest for free in ARENA before you commit.

Try it in ARENA

With a deck this new, test it before you buy. In our free One Piece TCG simulator, ARENA, you play with every card straight from your phone or desktop browser, and you can build your own version of Robin with any ratios you like. ARENA, like every other simulator, is an unofficial fan project.

1. Play against the AI on its four difficulty levels until the Leader's double attack becomes second nature.
2. Compare the two versions, Big Mom and Wisdom, against the same opponents.
3. Create a private 1v1 room and ask a friend to play Buggy or Sabo against you, the matchups Robin struggles with most.

Before you pay for the expensive versions, play ten games with Robin online in ARENA.

FAQ

Is the Nico Robin EB05-010 deck good?

It is too early to say. It went 26-28-3 in its first online tournaments and 12-10 across two ChinoizeCups in late October. In our forecast it is listed as "still to be tested".

Which Characters count for the Leader's effect?

Those with the Wisdom attribute. To add Life, they have to be K.O.'d and not have Blocker; to be set as active again, they need 6000 power or less at that moment.

Big Mom or Wisdom: which version should I build?

The Big Mom version has the best result (2nd place), but the Wisdom version is the one that shows up most in the ChinoizeCup lists we have reviewed. Try both before you decide.

Keep reading

• EB-05 card list: every card in Robin's set.
• Buggy OP09-042 deck: Robin's worst matchup.
• Sabo OP13-004 deck: the other deck that improves most with EB-05.
• The OP-18 and EB-05 meta: which decks go up and which go down.

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