Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone deck: the core, the flex slots, and what beats it

What Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone looks like when you open the box

Across the 19 lists we counted, this deck runs 11 to 19 Pokémon, 23 to 39 Trainers and 9 to 25 Energy. Its attacks are paid for in Fighting.

On results pages and on stream you will see it written « ursaluna-lunatone ». Every card named in that label turns up in the tables below, which is what makes it a fair name for the deck.

Look at the Energy: 9 to 25 out of 60, when half the 72 decks we track run 10 or fewer. This one carries more than most, and you feel it at the table — it wants to load up a big Pokémon and swing hard, even if that means drawing a spare Energy now and then.

Nothing here needs evolving — everything that attacks is a Basic Pokémon. Put it down, charge it, swing. That is as fast as the game gets, and it makes those turns where you draw nothing far less painful.

On the Trainer side: 8 to 13 Supporters, 8 to 22 Items, 2 to 3 Tools and 0 to 4 Stadiums, out of 23 to 39 — the median across the 72 decks we track being 31. Items edge it without crushing the Supporters. And it runs up to 4 Stadiums, which is no accident: it plans on bumping the one across the table.

What those four families of Trainer actually do, and why the Energy count says so much: how to read a deck list.

What the cards in this deck's name actually do

Bloodmoon Ursaluna and Lunatone give this deck its name. Here is what is written on them.

Bloodmoon Ursaluna is in all 19 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Battle-Hardened, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « When you play this Pokémon from your hand onto your Bench during your turn, you may attach up to 2 Basic {F} Energy cards from your hand to this Pokémon. »

Lunatone is in all 19 lists, 2 copies of it. Its Ability is called Lunar Cycle, and here is what is printed on it, word for word: « Once during your turn, if you have Solrock in play, you may discard a Basic {F} Energy card from your hand in order to use this Ability. Draw 3 cards. You can't use more than 1 Lunar Cycle Ability each turn. »

How Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone actually wins

Bloodmoon Ursaluna attacks with Mad Bite for 100+, and it costs 3 Energy (Fighting, Fighting and Colorless), with 150 HP to absorb the answer. The whole list exists to get it online fast.

Do the arithmetic, it decides your first few turns. One Energy attached a turn, 3 to pay for Mad Bite: with no help you swing on turn 3, and every card that accelerates Energy buys one of those turns back.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games: Bloodmoon Ursaluna has a Retreat Cost of 4, which is a whole turn to get it back to the Bench.

Not one ex Pokémon in the core, and only 11 of the 72 decks we track are in that position. It is a hidden advantage: every knockout your opponent takes is worth a single Prize, so they need six, where three would do against a deck stuffed with ex cards.

The attackers in the deck's core, with their best attack, its cost and their Weakness

Pokémon	HP	Attack	Damage	Cost	Weakness	Retreat
Bloodmoon UrsalunaBasic	150	Mad Bite	100+	Fighting + Fighting + Colorless	Grass ×2	4
SolrockBasic	110	Cosmic Beam	70	Fighting	Grass ×2	1
LunatoneBasic	110	Power Gem	50	Fighting + Fighting	Grass ×2	1

The core: the 7 cards every list runs

These 7 cards appear in all 19 lists, without a single exception. That is 24 of the 60 slots. The other 36 are decided player by player.

Look at how those 24 slots break down: 10 Trainers, 7 Pokémon, 7 Energy. The balance is a normal one, so it is the cards themselves, more than the split, that give this deck its character.

5 of those 7 cards do not sit at the same count from list to list: Solrock (2 to 4), Fighting Gong (2 to 4) and Lillie's Determination (2 to 4), plus 2 more. Everybody runs them, the last copy is arguable.

What "3 to 4" means in the copies column, what the "TWM 130" code under each name is for, and why we count dozens of lists instead of one: how to read a deck list.

The cards present in every list counted, with the number of copies

Copies	Card	Printing	Kind	Rotation
2–4	Solrock	MEG 75	Pokémon	stays
2	Bloodmoon Ursaluna	PRE 54	Pokémon	leaves
2	Lunatone	MEG 74	Pokémon	stays
2–4	Fighting Gong	MEG 116	Trainer	stays
2–4	Lillie's Determination	MEG 119	Trainer	stays
2–4	Boss's Orders	MEG 114	Trainer	stays
6–20	Fighting Energy	MEE 6	Energy	stays

The 67 cards that change from list to list

67 cards fight over the 36 slots that are left: 4 above three lists in four, 46 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Night Stretcher at 95 %, Air Balloon at 95 % and Poké Pad at 89 %, plus 1 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Ting-Lu, at 53 %: 10 of 19 players took it, 9 put something else there. Read its text before you decide. Right at the bottom, Barbaracle at 21 % and Binacle at 21 %: personal ideas, only worth copying if you know why.

Why a card at 45 % is not a bad card, and what order to buy all this in: how to read a deck list.

The cards some lists run and others don't, most common first

Lists running it	Card	Copies	Printing	Kind
95 %18/19	Night Stretcher	1–4	ASC 196	Trainer
95 %18/19	Air Balloon	1–3	ASC 181	Trainer
89 %17/19	Poké Pad	2–4	POR 81	Trainer
89 %17/19	Tarragon	1–3	POR 85	Trainer
74 %14/19	Energy Retrieval	1–2	SVI 171	Trainer
68 %13/19	Munkidori	1–4	TWM 95	Pokémon
68 %13/19	Darkness Energy	2–4	MEE 7	Energy
63 %12/19	Risky Ruins	1–4	MEG 127	Trainer
63 %12/19	Crispin	1–3	SCR 133	Trainer
63 %12/19	Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
58 %11/19	Energy Switch	2–3	MEG 115	Trainer
53 %10/19	Ting-Lu	1	TWM 110	Pokémon
53 %10/19	Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	4	DRI 179	Trainer
47 %9/19	Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
42 %8/19	Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
37 %7/19	Team Rocket's Petrel	1–2	DRI 176	Trainer
32 %6/19	Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
32 %6/19	Counter Gain	1	SSP 169	Trainer
32 %6/19	Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
26 %5/19	Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
26 %5/19	Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
21 %4/19	Barbaracle	2–3	POR 43	Pokémon
21 %4/19	Binacle	2–3	POR 42	Pokémon
21 %4/19	Mega Zygarde ex	2	POR 47	Pokémon
21 %4/19	Battle Cage	1–4	PFL 85	Trainer
16 %3/19	Riolu	2–3	MEG 76	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
16 %3/19	Premium Power Pro	3–4	MEG 124	Trainer
16 %3/19	Transformation Tome	4	CRI 83	Trainer
16 %3/19	Gwynn	2–3	PBL 78	Trainer
16 %3/19	Core Memory	1	POR 70	Trainer
16 %3/19	Prism Tower	1–2	CRI 80	Trainer
11 %2/19	Froslass	2	TWM 53	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Mega Lucario ex	2	MEG 77	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Okidogi	2	TWM 111	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Snorunt	2	TWM 51	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Ethan's Sudowoodo	1	DRI 93	Pokémon
11 %2/19	Judge	1–3	POR 76	Trainer
11 %2/19	Brock's Scouting	1–2	JTG 146	Trainer
11 %2/19	Nighttime Mine	1	ASC 197	Trainer
11 %2/19	Prism Energy	3–4	ASC 216	Energy
11 %2/19	Rocky Fighting Energy	1	POR 87	Energy
5 %1/19	Cinderace	4	MEG 28	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Hariyama	2	MEG 73	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Makuhita	2	MEG 72	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Maractus	2	JTG 8	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Patrat	2	CRI 70	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Hop's Cramorant	1	JTG 138	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
5 %1/19	Carmine	2	TWM 145	Trainer
5 %1/19	Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
5 %1/19	Iris's Fighting Spirit	2	JTG 149	Trainer
5 %1/19	Morty's Conviction	2	TEF 155	Trainer
5 %1/19	N's Plan	2	BLK 83	Trainer
5 %1/19	Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
5 %1/19	Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1	TEF 144	Trainer
5 %1/19	Drayton	1	SSP 174	Trainer
5 %1/19	Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
5 %1/19	Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
5 %1/19	Max Rod	1	PRE 116	Trainer
5 %1/19	Pokégear 3.0	1	SVI 186	Trainer
5 %1/19	Scramble Switch	1	SSP 186	Trainer
5 %1/19	Team Rocket's Watchtower	1	DRI 180	Trainer
5 %1/19	Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
5 %1/19	Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
5 %1/19	Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer

What Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone costs to build, and how long it will last

You need 74 different cards to cover every version of this deck, 7 of which nobody argues about. We do not have card prices, so we are not going to put a number on it.

Nothing here really weighs on the bill. There is no ex Pokémon in this core at all, which is very good news for your wallet, because the expensive cards in a deck are almost always the ex ones. 16 of these 19 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 12 took Secret Box, 1 took Hero's Cape and 1 took Max Rod. The flex table shows you all 5. You are allowed ONE ACE SPEC card in your whole deck, so a single copy covers it whatever it costs. New to this deck? Take Secret Box and watch what the others do with theirs before you switch.

Then there is time. 1 of the 7 core cards carry the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Bloodmoon Ursaluna. The core table marks each of them. The date belongs to the publisher, and we do not have it.

What Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 16 of the 72 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Festival Lead (Thwackey), Alakazam / Dudunsparce (Shaymin) and Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex, plus 13 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

Do not stop at this table, though. This deck sets up fast, so what troubles it looks less like a Weakness and more like an opponent who absorbs your first hits and answers harder.

Going the other way, your attackers are Fighting, and 27 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex and Dragapult ex / Dusknoir, among others. That is you doubling, for once. Second half of the table.

Questions people ask

What is the Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone deck list?

There isn't one, and that is the whole point. Across 19 tournament lists harvested on 16 August 2026, 7 cards turn up in every single one — 24 slots out of 60. The remaining 36 change from player to player, with 67 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

How many lists is this counted on, and where do they come from?

19 lists, played across 17 different tournaments, harvested on 16 August 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 19 were read card by card, and every card recognised.

Where do I start if I want to build Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone?

With the whole core: 7 cards, 24 slots. Inside it, buy the 10 Trainer slots and the 7 Energy first — they are cheap and they carry over into your next deck. Leave the 7 Pokémon slots for last. Only then work down the flex table and add the cards the most lists agree on, starting with Night Stretcher at 95 % and Air Balloon at 95 %.

What beats Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone?

Its attackers are Weak to Grass, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 16 of the 72 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Festival Lead, Alakazam / Dudunsparce, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex and Beedrill ex, among others.

Will Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone survive the next rotation?

Not intact: 1 core cards out of 7 carry the letter H, starting with Bloodmoon Ursaluna.

Are a lot of people playing Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone?

We have read 19 lists of it, which puts it 69th of the 72 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 26 entries for it, 0.1 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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