Lunalight Gold Leo – #DUAD-EN005
If this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can add 1 “Lunalight” monster from your Deck to your hand, except “Lunalight Gold Leo”, then discard 1 card. If a “Lunalight” monster(s) is sent to your GY, while this card is in your Monster Zone, even during the Damage Step: You can target 1 of them; add it to your hand. You can only use each effect of “Lunalight Gold Leo” once per turn.
Date Reviewed: October 20th, 2025
Rating: 4.0
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is awful. 3 is average. 5 is excellent.
Reviews Below:
King of
Lullaby
Hello Pojo Fans,
Lunalight Gold Leo starts our look at the Lunalight archetype: an archetype that has had moments of Tier 1 popularity and use, but slips back into Tier 2 eventually.
Not great for attacking, but Gold Leo is another searcher for your Lunalights, neting you any Lunalight monster from the Deck to the hand. You do have to discard a card after you search your Lunalight with Gold Leo, but Light Perfume can Special Summon it. Crimson Fox when sent can drop an opponent’s monster’s ATK to 0, and Keleido Chick can snag a Polymerization from the grave when sent by a card effect to the grave, in addition to anything that has a banish effect attached to it like Yellow Marten and Light Perfume. With the grave such a big part of most strategies in the game, you aren’t at a disadvantage if you have to discard for an effect. If anything, it can continue your advantage.
Speaking of that, Gold Lego is going to add a Lunalight from the grave back to the hand once per turn if that monster is sent to the grave this turn. Gold Leo has to be in in the Monster Zone, but that’s probably obvious. This paired with Keleido Chick gets you whatever Chick wants to send to the Graveyard. Lunalight Wolf in conjunction with this combo can make a Fusion Summon for you if you have the materials set up to banish through Wolf. Any Lunalight that discards or does a Foolish Burial, Foolish Burial Goods, or Lunalight Masquerade effect will trigger Gold Leo, and with this effect triggering even during the Damage Step, that covers a Lunalight losing in battle as well. Tomorrow’s card: Silver Wolf, teams up incredibly well with Gold Leo (must be why they were named Gold and Silver). Any card that would activate in the grave still does get its effect if you are adding it back with Gold Leo, so you won’t lose out on advantage.
Gold Leo is a welcome addition to the archetype as it is all about advantage. You pitch tomorrow’s card after searching it to get Silver Hound’s effect and get to something like Chick. Firing off both effects in the same turn keeps you from losing out on cards and fast-tracks you to cards you need for your bigger Fusion plays. Almost a one-card Fusion when used correctly.
Advanced- 4/5 Art- 4/5
Until Next Time,
KingofLullaby
Mighty
Vee
This week we’re covering another fan-favorite anime deck (no, it is NOT an Xyz deck!) supported in Duelist Alliance, Lunalight, starting with Lunalight Gold Leo. Like many Lunalight monsters, it’s a level 4 DARK Beast-Warrior monster, so Fire Formation – Tenki and Luna Light Perfume through Foolish Burial Goods will search it as usual, or you can access it indirectly through Lunalight Kaleido Chick or Lunalight Masquerade and Lunalight Tiger. Gold Leo’s stats are pretty bad, with only 600 attack and 1600 defense, so as usual the Fusion monsters will be doing the heavy lifting when it comes to battling.
Gold Leo has 2 pretty simple hard once per turn effects, but that doesn’t make them any less powerful. The first effect will trigger on Normal or Special Summon to let you search any Lunalight monster except another Gold Leo, then discard a card. This is custom-made to enable Lunalight Yellow Marten, which you’ll be able to search and immediately discard so that you can search a backrow– usually Lunalight Masquerade. Other than that, you can always just search what you need, since Lunalight is a pretty Graveyard-dependent deck. Though I strongly recommend against using it immediately, this effect goes great with Gold Leo’s other effect, triggering if any Lunalight monster is sent to the Graveyard while Gold Leo is in a Monster Zone (I’m not enough of a ruling nerd to explain why this is important, but I’m sure it is!) to let you target one of those sent monsters and recycle it back to your hand. You could use this to counteract the discard, but with so many wonderful Graveyard effects, why would you? In your bread and butter combos, you’ll be using this to recycle Tiger after sending it with another effect, which’ll branch into all sorts of combo lines, but like with the previous effect, you’ll want to grab what’s best for the situation. Which is usually still Tiger. In any case, Gold Leo is your main combo starter, so play 3!
As far as Lunalight in Genesys goes, it’s not terrible, but playing without Tiger and having less copies of Tenki, well…
+Great combo starter that enables other Lunalight combo pieces
+Flexible with multiple starting hands since you can discard anything
-Not super accessible without running Foolish Burial Goods
Advanced: 4/5
Genesys: 3.25/5
Art: 4/5 The new Lunalight monsters look WAAAY better than some of the old ones. Looking at you, Yellow Marten! I’m surprised TCG didn’t give her a skirt.
Crunch$G
New Lunalight support to breathe new life into the archetype to have it finally be played as a Fusion Deck as intended instead of an Xyz Deck, starting the week with the archetype’s best new starter: Lunalight Gold Leo.
Gold Leo is a Level 4 DARK Beast-Warrior with 600 ATK and 1600 DEF. Stats aren’t too impressive, though it’ll likely just be used as Fusion, Xyz, or Link fodder, but being a DARK monster is great, and Beast-Warrior means Tenki searches for it. On Normal or Special Summon, you can add a Lunalight monster from Deck to hand, besides Gold Leo, then discard a card. The search is nice to get to Lunalights you need, though if you don’t already have the discard fodder, you’ll likely search for a monster that’ll make for great fodder like Emerald Bird, Yellow Marten, or Silver Hound. All of which can trigger a graveyard effect, or you just get the regular search and could also send Luna Light Perfume or Lunalight Serenade Dance for their effects in grave. If a Lunalight monster(s) is sent to the graveyard while this is in the monster zone, you can add one of them back to the hand, useful for Black Sheep’s effect to search Polymerizarion or Kaliedo Chick sending any Lunalight from Deck to grave. HOPT on both effects, of course. Gold Leo is great to start combos and extend them, searching a Lunalight on summon while discarding to trigger grave effects, plus recovering monsters sent to grave back to hand to hopefully Fusion Summon with. This boosts consistency massively, so it’s worth playing 3.
In Genesys, Lunalight having no access to Tiger and Wolf is a big blow, but they can still combo in the format to make a formidable end board, which this helps a lot in. Plus Tenki being worth points makes it hard to use. Still a Deck to respect.
Advanced Rating: 4/5
Genesys Rating: 3.5/5
Art: 4/5 All Lunalights in the main that aren’t Pendulums are just cats of different colors, some looking better than others.
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