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1PenduLuMoon
Archetype:
Pendulum
ATK:
200
DEF:
700
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[ Pendulum Effect ] During your Main Phase: You can add 1 face-up "Pendulum" Pendulum Monster from your Extra Deck to your hand, then destroy this card. You can only use this effect of "PenduLuMoon" once per turn. [ Monster Effect ] During your Main Phase: You can add up to 2 face-up Pendulum Monsters from your Extra Deck to your hand, with Levels between the Pendulum Scales of the 2 cards in your Pendulum Zones, also for the rest of this turn, until you Pendulum Summon, you cannot activate monster effects, and the effects of any cards in your Pendulum Zones are negated. You can only use this effect of "PenduLuMoon" once per turn.
PenduLuMoon — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 56 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 54 · Deck: 57 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Searcher/Tutor · Secondary: Starter / Combo enabler
Why it scores here
PenduLuMoon's value is its text: a once-per-turn Pendulum effect that adds one face-up Pendulum monster from the Extra Deck to hand at the cost of the card itself, and a once-per-turn monster effect that adds up to two such monsters with Levels between the Pendulum Scales, at the cost of negating Pendulum Zone effects. It reliably converts into Extra Deck Pendulum monsters, which is why it scores as a searcher rather than as a body. Its 200 ATK and 700 DEF earn no points. Its usefulness is tied to a partner network (Beyond the Pendulum is in 65% of the sampled decks), so the score rests on that accessibility and not on the card's stats.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Its text gives a searcher route to Extra Deck Pendulum monsters in the Main Phase, and it appears in 26 sampled decks, though it has no recorded combo appearances to confirm how live it is in practice (observed in decks, inferred from text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Its text converts into up to two Extra Deck Pendulum monsters, but with no combo boards recorded, the depth of that conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 65 | The Pendulum effect is a 1-for-1 that trades the card for one monster, while the monster effect can add two monsters, which gives it net-positive value when used (verified from text, with usage unconfirmed). |
| Effect & Interaction | 20 | Its only interaction is negating effects in Pendulum Zones, which mostly hits the controller's own Pendulum Zone cards, so it offers little opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 40 | A Level 1 Spellcaster with 200 ATK is a generic low-level body, but its Pendulum Scale is recorded as 0, and it is destroyed by its own effect, so material value is limited (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 35 | Its Pendulum effect destroys the card as a cost, and the monster effect negates its own Pendulum Zone, so it has little resistance to interaction once used (inferred from text). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 70 | Its average of 1.54 copies per deck, with 15 decks running one copy, and no garnet-style restriction shows it is cheap to run and easy to fit into a deck (observed from deck data). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Searcher/Tutor + 0.3 Starter/Combo enabler. Intrinsic ≈ 54, Deck ≈ 57, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Searches Extra Deck Pendulum monsters into hand with two routes (Pendulum effect and monster effect)
- Cheap to run: one copy per deck is typical, and it has no restriction on the rest of the deck
- Broad deck reach: appears across 17 distinct archetypes and is most often paired with Beyond the Pendulum
Weaknesses
- Negligible opponent interaction: its negation hits Pendulum Zone effects, and that mostly means the controller's own cards
- Self-destructs as a cost, so it is one-shot and offers little resilience
- Combo conversion is unverified because no combo boards are recorded
Counters / choke points
- Not supplied: no counter cards are present in the evidence pack
Best use
A one-copy searcher that fetches Extra Deck Pendulum monsters into hand. Decks: Pendulum-based decks that use Beyond the Pendulum and Extra Deck Pendulum monsters, Solfachord and Supreme King lists in the sample. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Text: Pendulum effect adds 1 face-up Pendulum monster from the Extra Deck to hand and destroys this card; once per turn; Text: monster effect adds up to 2 Pendulum monsters from the Extra Deck with Levels between the Pendulum Scales, negates Pendulum Zone effects, and blocks monster effect activation until Pendulum Summon; once per turn; Deck data: 26 decks, 17 archetypes, average 1.54 copies per deck
- Observed: Partner co-occurrence: Beyond the Pendulum 65.4%, Accesscode Talker 61.5%
- Inferred: Searcher route is live in practice, based on deck inclusion with no combo data; Material and resilience ratings are based on text alone
- Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard) — archetype inclusion % inferred from deck sample only no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) pendulum_scale is 0 in the evidence for a Pendulum monster, so the scale-based summoning and Level rules cannot be checked from the pack