Meta Report #5: Rocks Rules the First EB05 Week

1. The Meta in Short

EB05 isn't on shelves until October 30, but online the format already moved. From October 19 the big Western events switched to OP17 + EB05, and this issue covers that first week: October 19 to 25, 2026. That's four online events and 278 players, all between October 19 and 22: after the 22nd, no EB05 event of the week published its lists. It's one week of a brand new format, so everything here is a first read, not a settled ranking. Extra Grand Battle events are left out, as in issue #4. If you're playing an OP17 event before the release, issue #4 is still your report.

• Rocks is the deck of the first EB05 week. OP17-039 Rocks took 17.1% of the seats, won 58.7% of its games and 5 of the 21 top cuts, more than any other leader. It's the only S on the list. It got there without the new set: 3 of its 25 lists run an EB05 card.
• Black Luffy left the room. OP17-079 Black Luffy, the deck that beat Rocks 69% of the time in OP17, went from 11.8% of the seats to 2.5%. That's a big part of the Rocks story.
• RG Luffy & Ace drops to A. ST30-001 RG Luffy & Ace went from 17.3% of the seats to 7.8%, broke even and made no top cuts. S in the last four issues, A on this week.
• Blue Buggy is the first EB05 winner. OP09-042 Blue Buggy came from almost nowhere to 8.2% of the field on four copies of EB05-021 Alvida, and won 54.5%. A hair under the S line.
• Sabo rebuilt, and lost. OP13-004 Sabo put EB05-047 Ripley in 11 of its 12 lists and became the second most played deck, but won 45.8%. The new leader, EB05-010 GY Robin, came in at 3.1%.