Lunalight Deck #765032 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon Lunalight boss monsters (Leo Dancer 3500 ATK, Liger Dancer 3800 ATK, Sabre Dancer 3000 ATK) that can attack twice, backed by Lunalight Fusion and Polymerization.; Xyz and Link follow-ups (Tiger King, Broadbull, Drident, Masquerena, Cross-Sheep) when the Lunalight fusion route is blocked.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Lunalight starter (Masquerade, Gold Leo, Black Sheep or Kaleido Chick), search Polymerization or Lunalight Fusion, and Fusion Summon a boss while the hand traps stay in hand as protection.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the six-card hand to hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle or Maxx C for the opponent's first Special Summon or search, then rebuild with a Lunalight starter and the fusion route.
• Recovery: Recur Lunalight monsters from the GY with Luna Light Perfume, Emerald Bird and Yellow Marten, and reuse Polymerization from the GY through Masquerade or Kaleido Chick.
• After siding: Not applicable: the Master Duel format used here allows a side deck of 0 to 15 cards and this list runs none, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional Lunalight plan reliably: 30 archetype-core copies give P(at least one in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.9996, and 16 searcher-text cards give about 0.94, so the engine is almost always reachable by turn 2 (Inferred). Conversion rests on a Polymerization and Lunalight Fusion route into 3500 to 3800 ATK double-attack bosses, with a ceiling that is plausible from the card text but unmeasured because no recorded boards exist. Interruption is the deck's strongest layer: eight hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 15 removal-text cards let it answer the opponent's first Special Summon or search and still continue. The score is earned on the system (engine redundancy, layered interaction, boss ATK and recursion), not from averaging card scores and not from popularity, since the Lunalight archetype usage stats only confirm the list is real and accessible. Going-second and post-side play carry real uncertainty, and the deck has no side plan to recover from a bad matchup.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 67.5, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-1); unrecoverable_choke_point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); 0.80*67.5 + 0.20*60 = 65.98, then context modifiers -2 = 63.98, rounded to 64

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Engine redundancy: 30 archetype-core copies and 16 searcher-text cards make the Lunalight engine very likely to be live by turn 2
• Layered interaction: eight hand traps plus Maxx C, Dominus Impulse and Ash Blossom cover both turns
• Boss ATK of 3000 to 3800 with second-attack text gives strong closing power

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Only 45.5 percent exact-name archetype purity; off-archetype cards (Mulcharmy, Dominus, Zoodiac, Fire Formation, Tri-Brigade, Fire Fist) dilute the fusion engine
• Fusion route depends on single-copy Polymerization and Lunalight Fusion

Critical choke points

• Polymerization and Lunalight Fusion (1 copy each) are the only Fusion enablers besides Masquerade's GY/banish recovery

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Master Duel 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, all Limited cards at legal copies; Copy counts, archetype purity 45.5 percent, and Extra Deck breakdown from composition; Card text excerpts for Lunalight bosses, hand traps and searchers
• Observed: Usage stats show the Lunalight core is standard for this archetype (no recorded boards to observe)
• Inferred: Hypergeometric consistency estimates (0.9996 core, 0.9354 searchers, 0.7639 hand traps at hand 6); Floor and median output scored from text only; Interaction and resilience quality from text roles; Going-first and going-second power estimates
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (D13) are not supported by a dated metagame sample
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick or OTK rates) Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics flag Lunalight Leo Dancer, Liger Dancer and Perfume Dancer as not in deck (copies 0) even though the card list runs 2 copies each; the core-presence figures are therefore unreliable for the Extra Deck and are not used for scoring No side deck, so D12 is a structural read only