Luffy ST10 EB05 Guide

• The extra-turn Luffy (OP05-119) is a 10-cost 12000. Pro played it in 125 of its 144 detailed games and won 47% of those, against 32% (6 of 19) when it never got it down.
• The ramp is in your bodies: Mr. 2 Bon Clay adds an active DON!!, Yamato a rested one, and Zorojuro an active one every time it attacks (your Leader is always at 3 Life or less).
• The price: your other Characters go to the bottom of your deck, so you're left with the 12000 Luffy, your Leader and what you play next.
• Only 3 Life: 45% of Pro's wins were at 0 Life.

The list

A SEARCHER OR A RAMP CARD = KEEP, UNLESS 3 OF YOUR 5 CARDS ARE PURE COUNTERS. NEITHER = MULLIGAN.

• Why: going 1st you have 7 DON!! on your 4th turn and the Luffy costs 10. The ramp cards close the gap; a searcher finds them or the Luffy itself.
• Don't agonize over it: across all 360 same-hand games, always keeping and always redrawing finished within 2 games in 100 (48% and 47%); the rule did 52%.
• Keep: Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Nami, Nico Robin, Nami. Mulligan: four Luffys and a Gum Gum Giant: nothing to reach 10 DON!! with.
• Players mulligan more than Pro (36% vs 19%) and won 49% of the hands they kept, 40% of the ones they sent back.

• Why 1st often helps: your extra-turn Luffy comes on your 4th or 5th turn either way (59 of 62 games going 1st, 56 of 63 going 2nd), so going 1st lands it a game turn earlier, before their board is up.
• What players do: strong players go 1st 68% of the time they choose (53 of 78).

RAMP TO 10 DON!!, PLAY THE EXTRA-TURN LUFFY, THEN REFILL: YOUR LEADER, LUFFY'S ABILITY, ROBIN, THOUSAND SUNNY.

• Why 10: the Luffy costs 10 and its On Play is DON!! -10. Pro played it with 10 DON!! 107 times in 147, and with 9 plus your Leader's ability (it adds one once you have 8) 39 times.
• Refill the same turn: at 0 DON!! your Leader adds an active one and Luffy's ability another, then Nico Robin (draw 3, trash 2, 4 rested DON!!). Pro used both abilities in 90 of its 125 first Luffy turns and played Robin in 57.
• Luffy's ability before Robin (better 14 times in 17): Robin's cost is your only active DON!!.
• The exception: if your Leader's ability took you from 9 to 10, there's no refill that turn (none of 34 did); the extra turn's DON!! start it.
• Their Life: about 2.3 when your Luffy turn started, about 1.1 when their next turn did; in 24 games of 125 they never got one.

• Counter at 3 and 2 Life: countering came out ahead 81 times in 140 at 3 Life and 91 in 166 at 2 Life. Mamaragan first (it draws while you have 6 or fewer DON!!), and before Zorojuro (19 times in 26).
• At 1 Life, lean toward taking it (59 times in 98): your counters are still there for the hit that would end it. At 0 Life, Pro countered 75% of the attacks.
• The Leader: Pro attacked it 9.2 times a game and Characters 2.1 (the Leader won 135 close calls in 201). The 12000 Luffy into a 5000 Leader asks for +8000: all 108 of those landed.
• Zorojuro swings even when it can't land: the attack adds an active DON!!.
• The kill: 48 of Pro's 65 kills came on its 5th or 6th turn: a Luffy Character attacked in 91% of them, your Leader in 82%, Roronoa Zoro in 54%.

Players: EB05 ladder games, every bounty level, with farmed games removed (the same two accounts playing each other 8+ times, one side winning 85%+); '-' under 30 games, or under 15 a side for the split. Our Pro AI: 100 games per matchup. Bold marks where the two are 15 or more points apart.

Xebec (OP17-039)

Practice vs Xebec · Hard AI

• Lean 2nd, and expect a hard game: our Pro AI wins only 20% here; players do far better (41%), so it's hard, not lost.
• Stussy (OP17-054) can stop your 12000 Luffy attacking the turn after your extra turn: have a second attacker ready. Rocks Pirates returns a cost 6 or less to your hand: your Zoro (cost 7) is safe.
• Counter at 3 Life (better 5 times in 7); Newgate (OP17-040) is the Character Pro hit most.

Buggy (OP09-042)

Practice vs Buggy · Hard AI

• Go 1st (our Pro AI 74% vs 62%; players 60% vs 54%).
• The 10-cost Buggy (OP09-051) puts one of your Characters on the bottom of your deck, your 12000 Luffy included; Gravity Blade Raging Tiger takes two with cost 6 or less.
• Hit the Leader (9.5 attacks a game vs 2.4 on Characters, Alvida first): when Alvida (EB05-021) attacks, one of your Characters loses its effects, so Yamato can't block.

Sabo (OP13-004)

Practice vs Sabo · Hard AI

• Lean 2nd: players won 72% going 2nd and 48% going 1st; our Pro AI 50% and 48%.
• Take the hit at 3 Life (better 10 times in 13): it's a race you win with the extra turn.
• Loki (OP17-119) K.O.s your Characters with a total cost of 4 or less. Hit the Character that makes their board big (10 of 17 close calls, on Usopp and their Luffy).

Nico Robin (EB05-010)

Practice vs Nico Robin · Hard AI

• Go 2nd (our Pro AI 80% vs 66%; players 70% vs 53%).
• The Leader, almost only (10.5 attacks a game vs 0.5): the extra turn before Charlotte Linlin lands is your window.
• Megalo (EB04-018) K.O.s a rested Character with 8000 power or less: your 12000 Luffy and 9000 Zoro are safe.

Trafalgar Law (OP14-001)

Practice vs Trafalgar Law · Hard AI

• Go 1st (our Pro AI 38% vs 26%) and counter early: at 3 Life, countering was better 8 times in 9.
• Jewelry Bonney (EB05-001) gives one of your 6000-or-bigger cards -1000, your Leader included; Urouge (OP14-002) K.O.s a 3000-or-less: Nami, Robin, Yamato, Mr. 2 Bon Clay.

Kaido (OP17-058)

Practice vs Kaido · Hard AI

• Go 1st (our Pro AI 52% vs 36%; players 56% vs 36%) and race: the extra turn has to land before their 12000s.
• The 10-cost Kaido (OP17-063) K.O.s a cost 6 or less: your Zoro and 12000 Luffy are out of reach. Charlotte Linlin (ST34-004) makes one of your Characters base power 0 on their turn.

Shirahoshi, Luffy & Ace, Luffy OP13 and the Enels

• Shirahoshi: lean 2nd (players 55% vs 32%). Shanks (OP17-022) rests all your Characters; hitting Bird Neptunian beat hitting the Leader 3 times in 4.
• Luffy & Ace: go 2nd. Players win only 48% here, far below our Pro AI's 75%. Their Luffy (ST30-012) rests a Blocker when it attacks; hit it (8 of 12 close calls).
• Luffy OP13: go 1st (our Pro AI 40% vs 24%).
• Yellow Enel: go 2nd and plan one hit more than their Life each turn: their Leader puts a Life card back once a turn, on your turn, the extra turn included.
• Purple Enel: go 1st and counter early (at 2 Life, countering was better 13 times in 15).

• Mulligan: a searcher or a ramp card = keep, unless 3 pure counters. Neither: send it back.
• Turn order: 1st against Buggy, Law, Kaido, Luffy OP13 and purple Enel; 2nd against Robin, Luffy & Ace and yellow Enel.
• The curve: a searcher, ramp (Zorojuro, Yamato, Mr. 2 Bon Clay), then the extra-turn Luffy on your 4th or 5th turn with all 10 DON!! active.
• The refill: your Leader, Luffy's ability, Nico Robin, then Thousand Sunny's DON!! on a Luffy.
• Defense: counter at 3 and 2 Life, Mamaragan first; at 1 Life, lean toward taking it. Attack: the Leader, asking for +4000 or more.

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Our other EB05 guides: Xebec, Sabo, Buggy, Nico Robin, Trafalgar Law, Kaido, purple Enel, yellow Enel, Luffy & Ace, red-green Luffy, Shirahoshi, Rosinante, Moria, Sugar and Boa Hancock.

Our Pro AI: its EB05 games, Pro on both sides (updated 10-25); plays, counters and close calls from 144 detailed Pro games; the same-hand test from 360 games played both ways. Players: EB05 ladder games (updated 10-26), farmed games removed; the mistakes from strong players' 167 games.