Notes & Combos

I played 34 games with a Lunalight deck in the March 2026 Duelist Cup. Here's the breakdown for this run:

• Overall Win Rate: 79.41% (27 Wins - 7 Losses)
• Win Rate Going 1st: 78.57% (11 Wins - 3 Losses)
• Win Rate Going 2nd: 80.00% (16 Wins - 4 Losses)
• Average Game Length: 2.15 Turns

Your game plan with this deck is straightforward: summon a Liger Dancer as quickly as possible, then another. Every game then becomes a game-within-a-game where you ask your opponent, 'Do you have an out for Liger Dancer?' Concede if the answer is 'yes.' In 34 games, not a single one of my opponents could out one Liger Dancer, much less two.

I went second in 20 out of my 34 games but had a similar win rate to my rate going first. Having access to Droplet and Heavy Poly helped me break boards on turn two. I also played Foolish Burial Goods and Serenade Dance to provide an extra push into opposing boards or act as an extender when going first.

I thought Fancy Ball and A Bao A Qu were great additions to the Extra Deck that added a new dimension of flexibility. You can Link into A Bao with Fancy Ball and one of your Fiend monsters (Nyarla or Dugares), then summon Fancy Ball from the Grave with A Bao on the opponent's turn. You'll get more insulation from monster effects for your Liger Dancers with Fancy Ball, or you can just destroy a card with A Bao.

My losses mostly came from messing up my own lines at the start of my run, getting hit with Droll mid-combo, or failing to open a play while going second with zero disruption. The fact that I saw no mirror matches during my run tells me Lunalight is a sleeper pick for this Duelist Cup.