Lunalight Deck #765381 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 68/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Lunalight Dancer fusion boards (Liger Dancer 3800 ATK, Leo Dancer 3500 ATK, Sabre Dancer 3000+ ATK) that can attack twice; Xyz and Link boards from Tiger King, Eclipse Twins, Dugares, Masquerena, Little Knight and Cross-Sheep
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Lunalight hand starter (Gold Leo, Black Sheep, Kaleido Chick, Emerald Bird, Yellow Marten) to search, then convert via Polymerization or Lunalight Fusion into a Dancer; hold hand traps as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Ghost Mourner or Maxx "C" to disrupt the opponent's summon, then land a Gold Leo or Masquerade starter off the back of the interaction
• Recovery: Recover from the GY and banish zones: Luna Light Perfume and Yellow Marten special summon from the GY, Silver Hound summons from the Deck, Perfume Dancer returns from the banish zone
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards and Master Duel is single-game, so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Lunalight engine: 30 archetype-core copies give a 0.9996 chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and about 9 different hand starters give redundant ways to begin. Its 8 hand traps and 13 negation-text cards let it interact through the opponent's summon-heavy turns, and its recursion lines (Perfume Dancer, Luna Light Perfume, Yellow Marten, Silver Hound) keep it running after disruption. Its ceiling is high: the Dancer fusions reach 3000 to 3800 ATK with second attacks and are hard to target. Scoring comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the system as a whole, not from Lunalight being a popular archetype, and not from averaging card scores. Recorded boards are absent, so the median and ceiling are text-based inference and the confidence stays Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 73, Going Second ≈ 71, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 67. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional, no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Redundant Lunalight engine with about 9 distinct hand starters
• Interaction layered across hand traps and field traps (Ash, Ghost Ogre, Ghost Belle, Dominus Impulse)
• Extra Deck fully used with Fusion, Link and Xyz coverage
• Dancer fusion bosses with second attacks

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no adaptability (single-game format)
• Three Limited single-copy cards (Maxx "C", Foolish Burial, Zoodiac Broadbull) constrain consistency
• No recorded boards, so the median and ceiling are unmeasured
• Hand traps and Dominus Impulse are dead on going-first without an opponent action

Critical choke points

• Polymerization and Lunalight Fusion as the only two pure Fusion spells; Dancer access relies on Lunalight monsters in hand
• Gold Leo x3 as the main searcher-starter; one missing copy shifts the opener
• Liger Dancer x2 needs Leo Dancer x2 as material, so Liger access depends on the Leo copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in Master Duel: 40 main, 15 extra, 0 side, all Limited cards at legal copies; Card text for Liger Dancer, Leo Dancer, Sabre Dancer, Tiger King, Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre; Archetype purity counts and extra-deck breakdown
• Observed: Usage stats: 25 core cards at 65 to 100% archetype inclusion
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand consistency (archetype core 0.9996, searcher 0.935); Interaction density and board-breaking read from card text; Recursion-based recovery
• Provisional: Meta power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (D13) and post-side adaptability (D12)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Evidence conflict: usage_statistics marks Leo Dancer, Liger Dancer, Perfume Dancer and Sabre Dancer as in_this_deck=false, but the cards array lists them in the Extra Deck at 2, 2, 2 and 1 copies. The cards array was used as the source of truth. Deck title is null; the deck is identified by archetype only