Lunalight Guide

Published on November 20th, 2025 by

Introduction:

Lunalight is the Deck of Serena from the Fusion dimension in Arc-V. The archetype is composed entirely of Beast-Warriors, with all of them being DARK Attribute, except for the two Pendulum Monsters which are instead LIGHT.

With the new support from the OCG/TCG "Duelist's Advance" set, Lunalight has received a noticeable boost. Between one card combo starters, a powerful in-archetype boss monster, and even a way to search Loading... , these cards have completely redefined the identity of the deck. Compared to previous iterations, Lunalight is now innately a primarily going first combo deck, and much less reliant on outside cards to facilitate these combos.

What is sending a card by card effect?

The easier way to frame this question is perhaps in the reverse. What is sending a card for cost? In cards printed with Problem Solving Card Text, the section of a card's text that is regarded as a cost is usually located before the semicolon ;, but after the colon : (if there is one, with the text before the colon generally being information about activation conditions).

Importantly for Lunalight, the Fusion Summon performed by the effect of a card that initiates a Fusion Summon does itself count as a card effect. Therefore, cards like Loading... that send materials to the GY will allow activation of Lunalight monster effects that require being sent to the GY by an effect.

Core Cards

Lunalights:

Main Deck Monsters:

Lunalight Gold Leo

One of the new pieces of support, and the primary Normal Summoned combo starter. She has two effects, whose interaction with the other Lunalight monsters makes her a vital component of the first segment of the general combo, which is referring to the sequence leading up to the first Fusion Summon.

Gold Leo's first effect, on Summon, first searches for any "Lunalight" monster, and then discards a card. The notable property of this discard is that it happens after the search and discards as effect. Many of the other main deck Lunalight monsters have effects that activate only if sent to the GY by a card effect. This means Gold Leo has the ability to search a monster and then immediately discard it to activate its GY effect. Outside of that use, the discard can be any card from your hand, not specifically a "Lunalight" card, allowing you to discard something else if you want to keep the searched card in hand.

Gold Leo's second effect activates when a "Lunalight" monster is sent to the GY by any means, and adds that monster to your hand. One of the primary uses is that this allows Loading... who sends Lunalight monsters from the Deck to the GY for cost to essentially function as an additional searcher.

Lunalight Silver Hound

Silver Hound is a card used for her GY effects. Her second effect is a Spell/Trap negate that requires banishing herself and a "Lunalight" Fusion Monster from your GY. This means that you always want to keep a Silver Hound and a Fusion Monster, likely a Loading... , in your GY. You really only need one copy, but players with bad luck at drawing opening hands may wish to opt for a 2nd copy.

Silver Hound's primary GY effect activates upon being sent by effect, and Special Summons a "Lunalight" from the Deck, but locks you into summoning only "Lunalight" monsters from the Extra Deck while that Special Summoned monster remains on the field. Generally, due to the lack of "Lunalight" Link Monsters, removing the restriction means Fusion Summoning Loading... .

Lunalight Kaleido Chick

Formerly the main combo starter, Kaleido Chick now serves a completely different role. Kaleido Chick has three effects. The third activates when she is banished, preventing the opponent from activating things during that turn's Battle Phase. Her second effect, if sent by effect allows you to add a Loading... from GY to hand, which as previously mentioned will activate if she is used as fusion material.

Kaleido Chick's first effect is where the card's complexity lies. On a soft once per turn, she can send a "Lunalight" monster from Deck or Extra Deck to the GY as cost in order to allow her name to that of the sent monster if she is used as Fusion Material. Starting from the beginning, this effect being a soft once per turn means you can resummon Kaleido Chick to use the effect to send specific Lunalight names later in the combo. Since the cards are sent as cost, they will not activate their effects if sent by effect, however in combination with Loading... , you can simply add whatever Kaleido Chick sent to your hand. Finally, the name change effect. Lunalight's Fusion Monsters are based around the idea of slowly climbing up from the humble Loading... to the mighty Loading... . However, going the normal way would be horribly expensive, so the archetype provides multiple ways to "cheat" your way to the end. Kaleido Chick is one of the cards that can facilitate this directly, but compared to two of the others, Kaleido Chick's name change will likely come up only in very strange game states. Interestingly, Kaleido Chick cannot send another copy of Kaleido Chick, likely because changing her name to the same thing is not a change.

Lunalight Yellow Marten

Yellow Marten has two effects, both of them quite important. If sent to the GY by effect, Yellow Marten can search for a "Lunalight" Spell/Trap, with your primary choice being Loading... , and the secondary target being Loading... (Loading... is not a "Lunalight" card). She can activate her effect after being detached by Xyz Monsters that detach their Xyz Materials as effect. The three Rank 4 Xyz Monsters with this property are Loading... , Loading... , and Loading... . Dempsey and Nyarla will remain on the field to be usable as Link Material, while Redoer instead banishes himself for the rest of the turn.

Her other effect, while in the hand or GY, she can return another face-up "Lunalight" card you control to the hand to Special Summon herself, but then banishes herself if she leaves the field. This effect is primarily intended to allow resetting your Pendulum Monster effects, however, in certain circumstances if quick Xyz Material is needed, returning to hand an active Loading... is also possible. Additionally, due to the way being on the field and leaving the field is treated, using Yellow Marten as Xyz Material means she no longer has to banish herself.

Lunalight Black Sheep

Black Sheep is primarily used to search Loading... , but does have two other effects, both designed to recover "Lunalight" monsters. While in your hand, you can discard Black Sheep to either search Loading... or add a "Lunalight" monster from GY to hand, except herself. If sent to the GY specifically because of being used as Fusion Material, she once again returns a "Lunalight" monster to the hand, but this time from the GY or face-up Extra Deck. Neither of these effects are once per turn.

Lunalight Emerald Bird

Emerald Bird is a more niche card. Her main effect is to, when sent to the GY by effect, Special Summon a Level 4 or lower "Lunalight" from your GY or banishment with its effects negated. Outside of having some use in very specific combo lines, one of the more general ways to use her effect is after searching Loading... late in a combo by detaching Loading... from an Xyz Monster. If by that point you have already used every other "if sent to the GY" effect, sending Emerald Bird allows you to recover some of the material cost used to make that Xyz Monster.

Emerald Bird's other effect, if Normal or Special Summoned, she can send a "Lunalight" card from your hand to the GY as effect and then draws 1 card. This effect is difficult to make use of. Special Summoning a Lunalight without negating its effects does not happen often, having a card in hand worth sending at that moment is not guaranteed, and Normal Summoning her is also not a great choice.

Lunalight Tiger

Lunalight Tiger is the iconic Pendulum Monster with the soft once per turn Pendulum Effect to Special Summon a "Lunalight" from your GY, but with its effects negated and it cannot attack. Loading... and Loading... can return Tiger to your hand, resetting her Pendulum Effect, giving you another Summon of premium Extra Deck material. Monsters summoned by this effect are destroyed in the End Phase, which is able to trigger effects that require being sent by card effect.

Her other effect activates if she is destroyed, allowing you to Special Summon a "Lunalight" from GY without the restriction of negating it. Note that being a Pendulum Monster, Tiger will most likely move to the face-up Extra Deck after being destroyed.

Lunalight Wolf

Lunalight Wolf is the other Lunalight Pendulum Monster, and the only Main Deck monster in the archetype that cannot be searched by Loading... . Her main use is as one of the good ways to skip ahead in the Fusion chain. Since her pendulum effect initiates a Fusion Summon that allows banishing materials from the GY, a Loading... that was previously sent to the GY by Loading... is allowed to use its name to fulfill the material requirement of Loading... . This same principle applies to the optional effect of Loading... . Similar to Loading... , Wolf's Pendulum Effect is a soft once per turn and can be reset by moving her out of the Pendulum Zone.

Also, combined with Loading... 's Scale of 5, she makes the lower Scale allowing Pend Summons of Level 2 to 4 "Lunalight" Monsters (Wolf restricts you to Lunalights only).

Main Deck Spells/Traps:

Lunalight Masquerade

Masquerade is a new Continuous Spell which can, the turn it is activated, send a "Lunalight" Monster from Deck to GY by effect. Often the sent card will be Loading... , allowing her to Special Summon a "Lunalight" from the Deck, allowing Masquerade to function as either a combo starter or an extender/combo piece. Masquerade's other effect allows it to return a Loading... from GY or banishment to the hand when a "Lunalight" Fusion Monster is Fusion Summoned, and then gives you the option to discard a card in order to allow a later Fusion Summon of a "Lunalight" Fusion Monster to also banish materials from the GY in addition to the normal locations it takes Fusion Materials from. While most times this means using the recovered Loading... , the way this effect is worded it will work with any other method to initiate a Fusion Summon. Since Loading... is already inherently capable of banishing materials from the GY, however, she does not consume the effect of Masquerade for that turn.

Luna Light Perfume

Luna Light. For years that space was the enemy of Lunalight players, but no more, as it can now be searched by Loading... . Luna Light Perfume is a very simple yet powerful Spell. On play, it allows you to Special Summon a "Lunalight" monster from the GY. In the GY, it can banish itself and discard a card for cost to search any one "Lunalight" monster, often being used to search one of the Pendulum Monsters. Luna Light Perfume by itself is not a starter, but it is a strong 2nd card for 2 card combos.