Destroy your opponent in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel with this powerful Black Luster Soldier Deck. We've got the full deck list breakdown, combos, and more!

Black Luster Soldier Deck List

Main Deck: 40 cards
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Extra Deck: 15 cards
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Black Luster Soldier Deck Breakdown

Black Luster Soldier Deck Guide: How to Play

Black Luster Soldier Decks aren't the strongest of decks. They aren't known for their OTKs nor FTKS, they can brick easy and lack a lot of support to make most of the main cards.

But when played well, players can have a fun time being able to banish Monsters on your opponent's field with Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning.

Link Summoning Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos using one of your Black Luster Soldier Cards can give you a Monster Card that's impervious to Card Effects, and can gain 1500ATK for every monster your opponent controls it destroys. Meaning, the longer it stays on the field and more battles it goes through, the stronger and more fearsome it becomes.

Sample Combo

Starting Hand
Step	Description
①	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring Check & Bait → Activate Chaos Space → Send Evening Twilight Knight in your Hand to the GY → if no Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, grab Black Luster Soldier and send from Deck to your Hand.
②	Normal Summon Neo Space Connector → Activate Neo Space Connector Effect → Special Summon Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin from Deck.
③	Activate Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin Effect → Discard Black Dragon Collapserpent from Hand → View opponent's hand and discard a card of your choice.
④	Link Summon Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights → Activate Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights Effect → send Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning from Deck to Hand.
⑤	Activate Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights Effect → Discard United We Stand → Special Summon Super Soldier Soul.
⑥	Special Summon White Dragon Wyverburster by banishing Evening Twilight Knight from GY → Activate Evening Twilight Knight Effect and send Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier from Deck to Hand.
⑦	Link Summon Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess using Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights, Super Soldier Soul, & White Dragon Wyverburster.
⑧	Banish Super Soldier Soul from GY and send Beginning Knight from Deck to Hand.
⑨	End your turn and use Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess try try and obscrut your opponent's combos in the meantime.
⑩	On your next turn → Normal Summon Beginning Knight.
⑪	Link Summon Salamangreat Almiraj using Beginning Knight
⑫	Special Summon Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning by banishing Beginning Knight from GY → Activate Beginning Knight's Effect and send Super Soldier Ritual from the Deck to Hand
⑬	Activate Super Soldier Ritual → Ritual Summon Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier by tributing the Black Luster Soldier in Hand.
⑭	Link Summon Accesscode Talker using Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess & Salamangreat Almiraj -> Activate Accesscode Talker's Effect & target Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess in the GY to gain 3000 ATK.

This combo leaves you with a pretty strong board, even through it can't be done in one turn.

The Apollousa, Bow of the Goddess will be a good defensive card while waiting for your next turn, when you can further pull out your stronger, harder hitting monsters.

After that, you'll have a Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier that can deal damage directly to your opponent equal to half the ATK of whatever monster it destroys. A Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning that can banish any monster on your opponent's field, as well as a 5300ATK Accesscode Talker to show them you mean business.

Black Luster Soldier Counters: How to Beat

Deck Counters

Control Decks

The key to beating Black Luster Soldier Decks is negating & interrupting their Summons & Spell Card activations.

Going with a deck similar to the Drytron Fairy Control Deck that can control the flow of the Duel may turn things to your favor!

Drytron Fairy Deck List and Card Guide

Best Cards to Tech Against Black Luster Soldier

	Contact "C"
	Contact "C" pretty much locks your opponent's Black Luster Soldier Deck by stopping them from Link Summoning, keeping either Black Luster Soldier - Soldier of Chaos or Accesscode Talker off the field for a while.
	PSY-Framegear Gamma
	A hand trap that can be used to negate the effects of your opponent's Black Luster Soldier Deck especially when used against cards like Super Soldier Soul, Neo Space Connector, Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights or other similar cards, destroying them in the process.
	Called by the Grave
	Using Called by the Grave and using them on either Beginning Knight or Evening Twilight Knight will help keep your opponent from adding a Black Luster Soldier or Ritual Summoning Card from their Deck to their Hand.
	Effect Veiler
	Another hand trap like PSY-Framegear Gamma that can be used against cards like Super Soldier Soul, Neo Space Connector, Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights or other similar cards.
	Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
	This card can be quickly used to cancel specific effects that are at the core of Black Luster Soldier decks by discarding this card.

Limit Summons

This Relinquished Deck relies on searches and chaining summons to use for both Fusion and Link Summons to create a nearly impregnable board early in the game.

Using a combination of spells and traps to interrupt your opponent will quickly put the duel in your favor.

Related Packs to Black Luster Soldier

Packs
Inevitability of Chaos	Neo Space Comrades
Soldiers from the Storm	Guided by the Noble Blade
Blazing Fortitude	Master Pack

You can get the Black Luster Soldier Cards from the Inevitability of Chaos Secret Pack.

Neo Space Connector and Neo-Spcian Aqua Dolphin can be obtained via the Neo Space Comrades.

Accesscode Talker, Isolde, Two Tales of the Noble Knights, & Salamangreat Almira in the Soldiers from the Storm, Guided by the Noble Blade & Blazing Fortitude Secret Packs, respectively..

And all these cards are available via the Master Pack as well.

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