Donquixote Rosinante OP12-061 deck: decklist and guide (November 2026)

Donquixote Rosinante OP12-061 is the purple/yellow Trafalgar Law and Navy deck. It sees little play, but when it shows up it wins tournaments: over the last month it accounts for 3.5% of the lists with good results and has 7 tournament wins. In this guide you get what the Leader does, how the deck plays turn by turn, the decklist that finished 2nd in a 120-player online tournament on 20 October 2026, the key cards, the two versions you see around, mulligans and matchups.

Tournament data from 10 October to 7 November 2026. To see where Rosinante fits, check our tier list of the best One Piece TCG decks.

What the Donquixote Rosinante OP12-061 Leader does

It is a purple/yellow Leader with 4 Life and 5000 power, with the Special attribute and the Navy and Donquixote Pirates types. It has two effects. In short, going by its official English text:

• [Once Per Turn] If one of your [Trafalgar Law] Characters would be K.O.'d, you can add the top card of your Life cards to your hand instead.
• [Activate: Main] [Once Per Turn] DON!! −1: the next time you play a [Trafalgar Law] with a cost of 4 or more from your hand this turn, it costs 2 less.

In plain terms: once per turn, your Laws don't die, in exchange for a Life card that goes to your hand. And once per turn, by returning a DON!!, your next big Law costs 2 less. Note: Rosinante & Law EB04-038 also counts as [Trafalgar Law] for rules purposes, so it benefits from both effects.

How to play Rosinante OP12-061: early, mid and late game

Rosinante is a midrange deck that plays with few DON!! on purpose. Almost everything it does costs returning DON!! (the Leader, Mamaragan, Sakazuki, Sugar EB05-034), and then it gets them back with Characters that only give DON!! if you have the same number or fewer than your opponent. At the same time, the Leader makes your Life drop fast, which switches on Borsalino and I Love You!!.

Early game (turns 1 to 3)

• Turns 1 and 2: search. Sugar OP10-065 looks at 5 cards and takes a Donquixote Pirates; Koby OP16-064 and Marineford OP16-078 take a Navy card.
• Turn 3: with 3 DON!!, use the Leader (DON!! −1) and play Trafalgar Law P-093 for 2: a 6000 Blocker that gives you a DON!! back if you are not ahead.
• This deck plays with few DON!! on purpose: don't worry about being behind on DON!!.

Mid game (turns 4 to 7)

• Turns 4 and 5: Rosinante & Law EB04-038 comes in for 4 with the Leader: an 8000 Blocker that draws 1 and gives you an active DON!!.
• Against big-hand decks (Rocks), Trafalgar Law ST10-010 makes your opponent trash 2 if they hold 7 or more cards.
• Turns 6 and 7: Sakazuki OP16-065 gives an opposing Character −6000 until the end of their next turn and adds 2 active DON!! once per turn.
• Watch your DON!! count against your opponent's: if you are ahead, P-093 and Rosinante & Law give you nothing back.

Late game: how to close it out

• At 2 Life or less, Borsalino EB04-058 adds a Life card on play. The Leader drops you fast, so you get there in time.
• Trafalgar Law EB03-062 (cost 8, 6 with the Leader) has Rush and finishes.
• I Love You!! is a +2000 counter and, at 2 Life or less, recovers a Law from the trash.

Mistakes that cost the most games

• Getting ahead on DON!! and losing the value from P-093 and Rosinante & Law.
• Keeping a hand of only expensive cards (Sakazuki, Law EB03-062).
• Forgetting that Rosinante & Law counts as Trafalgar Law for the Leader.

The golden rule: keep an eye on how many DON!! you have compared to your opponent. If you are ahead, P-093 and Rosinante & Law give you nothing back.

Rosinante decklist: 2nd at ChinoizeCup #125 (20 October 2026)

This is the list FlyestRaven took to 2nd place at [EB05] ChinoizeCup #125, a 120-player online tournament on Limitless Play. It went 6-1: it beat Marshall.D.Teach, two Luffys, Kaido, Boa Hancock and Gecko Moria, and only lost to the Rocks deck that won the event. Another Rosinante, Potlehio_1's, finished 6th in the same tournament.

Total: 50 cards plus the Leader (32 Characters, 14 Events and 4 Stages). It runs two EB-05 cards: Sugar EB05-034 and You Need Me, Don't You?!!♡ EB05-040.

Key cards and why they matter

• Rosinante & Law EB04-038: 8000 power and Blocker. When played, if you have the same number of DON!! as your opponent or fewer, you draw 1 and add an active DON!!. It counts as both Trafalgar Law and Donquixote Rosinante, so the Leader makes it cheaper and protects it.
• Trafalgar Law P-093: 6000 Blocker that, with the Leader, comes down for 2 on turn 3 and gives you back the DON!! you paid.
• Sakazuki OP16-065: −6000 to an opposing Character that lasts until the end of their next turn, plus ramp of 2 active DON!! every turn because your Leader is Navy.
• Borsalino EB04-058: 6000 Blocker that, with 2 Life or less, adds the top card of your deck to your Life. It fits a Leader that makes you spend Life.
• Mamaragan OP15-078: on your turn, DON!! −2 to draw 1 and rest an opposing Character with 5000 power or less. As a Counter it gives +1000 and, if you have 6 DON!! or fewer, draws 1. In this deck you almost always draw.
• I Love You!! OP12-115: +2000 Counter for 1 that, with 2 Life or less, gets a Trafalgar Law back from your trash.
• Trafalgar Law P-088: in practice, a +2000 Counter named Trafalgar Law, so I Love You!! can get it back too. Its Trigger does not work with this Leader.
• You Need Me, Don't You?!!♡ EB05-040: cost 0 Event. On your turn you return an active DON!! and, since your Leader is Donquixote Pirates, you draw 3 and trash 1. As a Counter it gives +2000 to your Leader.

Flex slots and options

There are two ways to search for your pieces. The list above uses 4 Sugar OP10-065 and the EB-05 cards. The other version, which Kitsune used to go 4-0 and win an in-person Standard Battle at the PokeOasis store on 20 October, has no EB-05 cards at all and searches with the Navy:

• Koby OP16-064 at 4 and Donquixote Rosinante OP12-108 at 3: Rosinante OP12-108 looks at 5 cards and takes a Trafalgar Law. It is in 80 of the 88 Rosinante lists opdecks has collected since June.
• Gum-Gum Lightning OP09-077: DON!! −2 to K.O. a Character with 6000 power or less. Its Trigger gives you an active DON!!. It is in 65 of those 88 lists, although FlyestRaven does not run it.
• X.Drake OP10-114 and Tsuru OP16-067: Kitsune's list runs 2 and 1. They are personal tweaks, not part of the core.

The core stays untouched: 4 Rosinante & Law, 4 Borsalino, 4 Sakazuki, 4 Law P-093, 4 Mamaragan, 4 I Love You!! and 4 Marineford are in almost every list. If you want to understand how to pick between the two versions, we explain it in how to build a One Piece TCG deck.

Mulligan

• Look for a searcher: Sugar OP10-065, Koby, Marineford or Rosinante OP12-108. With one of them, almost any hand works.
• You want a cost 4 Law for turn 3, especially P-093. If you have a searcher, you can go and find it.
• Mulligan if you only have expensive cards (Sakazuki, Law EB03-062) and no searcher or cost 1 or 2 Character.

Matchups against the top decks

The first column is Rosinante's cumulative record in Limitless Play online tournaments since OP-16 came out; it includes weeks when Mihawk was still legal. The second is the games played by the 12 Rosinante players across three ChinoizeCups (20 October, 2 and 3 November 2026), where the deck went 43-28. Limitless does not split the two Luffys or the two Enels in that second column. These are small samples.

The mirror sits at 50%. The big problem is Buggy: Rosinante did not win a single game against it across the three ChinoizeCups, and the cumulative record is against it too. Against Luffy and Kaido, on the other hand, it does well in both columns. With Luffy & Ace the data disagrees: the cumulative record is bad, but in October and November it won all three games. Treat it as an open matchup. And against Rocks, the most played deck, it is even or slightly ahead. Its guide is at Rocks OP17-039 deck.

What EB-05 and OP-18 change

• EB-05 gives it two cards. You Need Me, Don't You?!!♡ EB05-040 draws 3 for cost 0, and Sugar EB05-034 is a +2000 Counter that, when played, pays DON!! −2 to take 4000 off an opposing Character if you have 7 or more DON!!. The Event needs a Donquixote Pirates Leader, and Rosinante is one. EB-05 has been legal at Store Championships and regionals since 6 November 2026.
• It is not mandatory. Kitsune's list won without a single EB-05 card, so if you already own the deck you can play it as is.
• OP-18 (20 November in English): Bandai has not confirmed any card made for this deck, and none of the six new Leaders is Rosinante or Law. What will change is the meta around it.

The full forecast is in how the meta will change with OP-18 and EB-05.

Budget: which cards are expensive

Borsalino EB04-058One Piece Egghead Crisis · ENView in storeSakazuki (Alternate Art) OP16-065One Piece The Time of Battle · ENView in store

The Leader, Rosinante & Law, Sakazuki and most of the Laws are cheap in their regular versions. What sets the price is two cards you need at 4 copies: Borsalino EB04-058, around €23 per copy on Cardmarket, and Mamaragan OP15-078, around €18. Both are also played in the Enel decks, so if you already own one of those, you save on the most expensive part. Prices from early November 2026. The really expensive cards are the alternate art versions, which only change the artwork.

Buying the singles you are missing is much cheaper than opening packs looking for four Borsalino, and you can test the list for free before you spend anything.

Try it on ARENA

You learn Rosinante by playing it: when to spend DON!!, when to let your Law take the hit and when to drop your Life on purpose. In our free One Piece TCG simulator ARENA, an unofficial fan project, you load meta decklists in one tap or build this one with its Leader, in your phone or computer browser.

1. Play against the AI on its four levels until the turn 3 Law P-093 play becomes second nature.
2. Create a private 1v1 room and ask a friend to play Buggy or Sabo against you, the two hard matchups.
3. Once you have it down, take it into ranked or sign up for an online Swiss tournament.

Practise the current meta decks on ARENA and prepare the matchups that will still be around with OP-18. If you want to compare options, see the best One Piece TCG simulators. And before you buy Borsalino and Mamaragan, play ten games with Rosinante on ARENA.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Rosinante OP12-061 deck good right now?

Yes, although it sees little play. From 10 October to 7 November 2026 it accounts for 3.5% of the lists with good results and won 7 tournaments. In the ChinoizeCups of late October and early November it went 43-28.

Do I need the EB-05 cards to play Rosinante?

No. The version with Sugar EB05-034 and You Need Me, Don't You?!!♡ finished 2nd in a 120-player tournament, but Kitsune's list won a tournament the same day without a single EB-05 card.

Why does the Leader make my Life go down?

Because every time you save a Law from being K.O.'d, the top card of your Life goes to your hand. That is card advantage, and it also leaves you at 2 Life or less, which is when Borsalino and I Love You!! work.

Is any Rosinante card banned?

No, every card in this list is legal. The latest ban was the Mihawk OP14-020 Leader, on 12 October 2026. The full list is in One Piece TCG banned cards.

Keep reading

• Enel OP15-058 deck: the other purple deck that plays Mamaragan.
• Buggy OP09-042 deck: Rosinante's hardest matchup.
• Best One Piece TCG decks: the tier list for the current meta.
• The meta with OP-18 and EB-05: which decks go up and which go down.

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