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 28 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 97 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.

Look at the Trainers: 23 to 39 cards out of 60, against a median of 31 across the 97 decks we track. Inside that, 8 to 16 Supporters, and the rule there is strict — one a turn, even if you are holding three. The 8 to 24 Items you can play all of in the same turn. It also brings up to 4 Stadiums, and 57 of the 97 decks we track bring that many or more. Only one Stadium sits on the table at a time: the one you play sends the one already there to the discard pile.

What Tools and Stadiums do — the two Trainer families we skipped here — 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 28 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 28 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. It needs 3 Energy, 2 Fighting and 1 Colorless attached, and it has 150 HP. The damage box reads "100+": 100 to start with, and 30 more per damage counter already sitting on the Pokémon across the table, and one counter is 10 damage.

The cost of Mad Bite decides your first few turns. You only get to attach one Energy a turn, and that attack asks for 3. On your own attachments alone, your first real swing lands on turn 3. Except it charges itself. Bloodmoon Ursaluna, which the list runs 2 of, has an Ability called Battle-Hardened: it attaches Energy from your hand on top of the one you already play. Not whenever you feel like it, though. The card itself says when, so read it before you count on it. An Ability costs you nothing: not your attack, not your card for the turn. That is where this deck buys its turns, and it is the first thing to look for in your opening hand.

Here is the detail that quietly loses games. To pull Bloodmoon Ursaluna back to the Bench you have to discard 4 Energy attached to it. Retreating does not cost you your turn, you can step back and still swing right after. What it costs you is the 4 Energy you spent 4 turns attaching, and you start that climb again from nothing. Pack a card that moves it for free, or send it up knowing it stays up.

Not one ex Pokémon in the core, and only 21 of the 97 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 6, where 3 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
Close Bloodmoon UrsalunaBasic	150	Mad Bite	100+	Fighting + Fighting + Colorless	Grass ×2	4
Close SolrockBasic	110	Cosmic Beam	70	Fighting	Grass ×2	1
Close LunatoneBasic	110	Power Gem	50	Fighting + Fighting	Grass ×2	1

The core: the 7 cards every list runs

These 7 cards appear in all 28 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. Nothing stands out in that split. What sets this deck apart is how thick its core is: 24 of the 60 slots are the same for everybody, when half the 97 decks we track fix 34 or more. This one leaves more room than most, and two players can build it very differently.

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. Add those spreads up and you get 22 copies the 28 lists do not agree on, inside the core itself.

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

The 83 cards that change from list to list

83 cards fight over the 36 slots that are left: 9 above three lists in four, 64 below one in four, and the percentage on each row says how many players took it.

The most agreed on first: Night Stretcher at 96 %, Poké Pad at 93 % and Tarragon at 89 %, plus 6 more above 75 %. Add those to the core and you have the common build.

The dividing line runs through Ting-Lu, at 50 %: 14 of 28 players took it, 14 put something else there. The ones who run it bring 1 copy. Right at the bottom of the table, Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex (7 lists out of 28) and Switch (7 lists out of 28).

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
96 %27/28	Close Night Stretcher	1–4	ASC 196	Trainer
93 %26/28	Close Poké Pad	2–4	POR 81	Trainer
89 %25/28	Close Tarragon	1–3	POR 85	Trainer
82 %23/28	Close Air Balloon	1–3	ASC 181	Trainer
82 %23/28	Close Energy Retrieval	1–2	SVI 171	Trainer
79 %22/28	Close Munkidori	1–4	TWM 95	Pokémon
79 %22/28	Darkness Energy	2–4	MEE 7	Energy
75 %21/28	Close Crispin	1–3	SCR 133	Trainer
75 %21/28	Close Risky Ruins	1–4	MEG 127	Trainer
68 %19/28	Close Energy Switch	2–3	MEG 115	Trainer
64 %18/28	Close Team Rocket's Venture Bomb	2–4	DRI 179	Trainer
61 %17/28	Close Fezandipiti ex	1	ASC 142	Pokémon
54 %15/28	Close Team Rocket's Petrel	1–2	DRI 176	Trainer
54 %15/28	Close Secret Box	1	TWM 163	Trainer
54 %15/28	Close Ultra Ball	1–4	MEG 131	Trainer
50 %14/28	Close Ting-Lu	1–2	TWM 110	Pokémon
39 %11/28	Close Counter Gain	1	SSP 169	Trainer
36 %10/28	Close Genesect	1	SFA 40	Pokémon
29 %8/28	Close Special Red Card	1	CRI 82	Trainer
25 %7/28	Close Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex	1	TWM 112	Pokémon
25 %7/28	Close Switch	1–2	MEG 130	Trainer
21 %6/28	Close Judge	1–3	POR 76	Trainer
18 %5/28	Close Latias ex	1	SSP 76	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Barbaracle	2–3	POR 43	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Binacle	2–3	POR 42	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Mega Zygarde ex	2	POR 47	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Dusclops	1	PRE 36	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Duskull	1	PRE 35	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Meowth ex	1	POR 62	Pokémon
14 %4/28	Close Premium Power Pro	2–4	MEG 124	Trainer
14 %4/28	Close Battle Cage	1–4	PFL 85	Trainer
14 %4/28	Close Colress's Tenacity	2	SFA 57	Trainer
14 %4/28	Close Crushing Hammer	2	POR 71	Trainer
14 %4/28	Close Precious Trolley	1	SSP 185	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Riolu	2–3	MEG 76	Pokémon
11 %3/28	Close Shaymin	1	DRI 10	Pokémon
11 %3/28	Close Transformation Tome	4	CRI 83	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Gwynn	2–3	PBL 78	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Core Memory	1	POR 70	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Pokégear 3.0	1–2	SVI 186	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Prism Tower	1–2	CRI 80	Trainer
11 %3/28	Close Prism Energy	2–4	ASC 216	Energy
7 %2/28	Close Froslass	2	TWM 53	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Mega Lucario ex	2	MEG 77	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Okidogi	2	TWM 111	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Snorunt	2	TWM 51	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Ethan's Sudowoodo	1	DRI 93	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Hop's Cramorant	1	JTG 138	Pokémon
7 %2/28	Close Brock's Scouting	1–2	JTG 146	Trainer
7 %2/28	Close Nighttime Mine	1	ASC 197	Trainer
7 %2/28	Close Team Rocket's Watchtower	1	DRI 180	Trainer
7 %2/28	Close Unfair Stamp	1	TWM 165	Trainer
7 %2/28	Close Xerosic's Machinations	1	SFA 64	Trainer
7 %2/28	Close Rocky Fighting Energy	1	POR 87	Energy
4 %1/28	Close Cinderace	4	MEG 28	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Bunnelby	2	POR 64	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Diggersby	2	POR 65	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Hariyama	2	MEG 73	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Makuhita	2	MEG 72	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Maractus	2	JTG 8	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Patrat	2	CRI 70	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Bloodmoon Ursaluna ex	1	TWM 141	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Lillie's Clefairy ex	1	JTG 56	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Moltres	1	PFL 14	Pokémon
4 %1/28	Close Carmine	2	TWM 145	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Ciphermaniac's Codebreaking	2	TEF 145	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Iris's Fighting Spirit	2	JTG 149	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Morty's Conviction	2	TEF 155	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close N's Plan	2	BLK 83	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Brave Bangle	1	WHT 80	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Buddy-Buddy Poffin	1	TEF 144	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Drayton	1	SSP 174	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Energy Recycler	1	DRI 164	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Hero's Cape	1	TEF 152	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Lana's Aid	1	TWM 155	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Max Rod	1	PRE 116	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Pokémon Catcher	1	POR 82	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Scramble Switch	1	SSP 186	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Team Rocket's Transceiver	1	DRI 178	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Tool Scrapper	1	ASC 212	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Wally's Compassion	1	MEG 132	Trainer
4 %1/28	Close Legacy Energy	1	TWM 167	Energy
4 %1/28	Psychic Energy	1	MEE 5	Energy

The most common Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone list, all 60 cards

Here they are in full, ready to build. 24 slots come from the core, the cards all 28 lists run. The remaining 36 come from the table just above, working down it: the cards the most players chose, each at its most common copy count, until the total lands on 60.

This list is nobody's list in particular. It takes, slot by slot, what the most people played, under the guardrails a judge would hold you to: never more than four copies of a card, and one ACE SPEC. Behind the core it took 16 more cards to reach 60. The whole thing comes to 12 Pokémon, 38 Trainers and 10 Energy.

One thing to know before you build it: the 28 lists we counted are all from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament. Nobody publishes the lists of the players who lost. So what you have in front of you is what the players finishing near the top bring most often.

The text under the table is the one the game expects: copy it, paste it into the deck manager, and the list builds itself.

There is no price total on this page. The readings we have are Cardmarket's, in euros, and the shop link further down sends you to TCGplayer, which quotes in dollars. Putting a euro figure next to a dollar shop would be one currency too many. The French and German pages carry the total.

Why we only read lists from players who came in the top twenty of their tournament, and what that changes about every percentage on this page: how to read a deck list.

Pokémon: 12
3 Solrock MEG 75
2 Bloodmoon Ursaluna PRE 54
2 Lunatone MEG 74
3 Munkidori TWM 95
1 Fezandipiti ex ASC 142
1 Ting-Lu TWM 110

Trainer: 38
4 Fighting Gong MEG 116
4 Lillie's Determination MEG 119
2 Boss's Orders MEG 114
4 Night Stretcher ASC 196
4 Poké Pad POR 81
2 Tarragon POR 85
2 Air Balloon ASC 181
2 Energy Retrieval SVI 171
2 Crispin SCR 133
2 Risky Ruins MEG 127
2 Energy Switch MEG 115
4 Team Rocket's Venture Bomb DRI 179
2 Team Rocket's Petrel DRI 176
1 Secret Box TWM 163
1 Ultra Ball MEG 131

Energy: 10
7 Fighting Energy MEE 6
3 Darkness Energy MEE 7

Total Cards: 60

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

You need 90 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.

25 of these 28 lists bring an ACE SPEC, and that is where they part ways: 15 took Secret Box, 4 took Precious Trolley and 2 took Unfair Stamp. The flex table shows you all 7. 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 carries the letter H, the one that goes at the next rotation: Bloodmoon Ursaluna. The core table marks it. In copies, that is 2 of the 24 slots the core fills. Which day it lands, we do not know yet.

What Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone struggles against

The attackers in this deck are Weak to Grass, so they take DOUBLE damage from that type. 19 of the 97 decks we track attack in exactly that type.

Concretely, here is what is waiting for you: Festival Lead (Thwackey), Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex and Cynthia's Garchomp ex (Cynthia's Roserade), plus 16 more decks. The table below takes them one at a time, and those are the lists you practise against first before an event.

This table counts one thing, Weakness, and that comes to 19 decks out of the 97 we track. The other 78 do not attack into yours, and this table says nothing about them. You will still run into them.

Going the other way, your attackers are Fighting, and 34 of the decks we track have an attacker Weak to one of those: Dragapult ex, Alakazam / Dudunsparce and Dragapult ex / Blaziken ex, 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, so we built one for you: all 60 cards are written out further up this page. Across 28 tournament lists harvested between 16 August 2026 and 2 September 2026, 7 cards turn up in every single one, 24 slots out of 60. The remaining 36 change from player to player, with 83 different cards competing for them. Both tables are above.

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

28 lists, played across 26 different tournaments, harvested between 16 August 2026 and 2 September 2026 from play.limitlesstcg.com. All 28 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 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 96 % and Poké Pad at 93 %.

What beats Bloodmoon Ursaluna / Lunatone?

Its attackers are Weak to Grass, so they take double damage from an attacker of that type. 19 of the 97 decks we track play an attacker of that type: Festival Lead, Teal Mask Ogerpon ex / Meganium / Hydrapple ex, Cynthia's Garchomp 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 28 lists of it, which puts it 54th of the 97 decks we track by lists read. The platform those tournaments run on counts 42 entries for it, 0.1 % of the field, across all its players. That figure is theirs.

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