Swordsoul Deck #685033 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 59/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Synchro, Fusion
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Fusion boss pressure: Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (3000 ATK), Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao (2800 ATK), and Fallen of Albaz fusions (Brigrand, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade) once the Swordsoul Token is in play.; Negate-and-remove interaction (The Golden Swordsoul, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Draco Berserker) to keep a single boss alive through a disrupted turn.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Swordsoul starter (Swordsoul of Taia, Swordsoul of Mo Ye, Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan, or Incredible Ecclesia), make the Swordsoul Token, then Synchro into Chengying or Chixiao; Fallen of Albaz fusion is the alternative route.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Effect Veiler, The Golden Swordsoul, D.D. Crow, or Infinite Impermanence to negate the first monster effect or attack, then rebuild from the GY with Swordsoul Emergence or Swordsoul Sacred Summit.
• Recovery: GY recursion: Swordsoul Emergence and Swordsoul Sacred Summit both re-add or re-summon Swordsoul/Wyrm monsters, and Gold Sarcophagus returns a banished card to hand on the second Standby Phase.
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs 0 Side Deck cards and the Duel Links format evidence supplies no post-side data.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: the 12-copy archetype core has P(at least one in opening 5) ≈ 0.94, and the 7-copy searcher group has ≈ 0.76, so a Swordsoul starter and a Token are usually available by turn 1 (Inferred). Conversion rests on the system, not on any card's individual score: the Token enables Synchro into Chengying or Chixiao, and Fallen of Albaz unlocks three fusion bosses. Interaction is layered across four hand traps and two negation effects on the Golden Swordsoul and Draco Berserker, with GY recursion through Emergence and Sacred Summit to continue after disruption. No combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and median are text-based and held to Medium confidence. Popularity was not credited: the exact-name Swordsoul purity is only 25.6%, and the score does not come from averaging individual card powers.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.9, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); unrecoverable choke point (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + Modifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*62.9 + 0.20*56 - 3 = 58.5, rounded to 59

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Core Swordsoul starters are dense (Emergence, Taia, Mo Ye, Longyuan, Ecclesia) and the archetype core is 94% likely to open ≥1 card
• Four hand traps plus negation text cover both going-first and going-second turns
• Extra Deck has high-ATK bosses (Chengying, Chixiao, Dragite, Mirrorjade) with recursion and removal text

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so there is no post-side adaptation
• Exact-name Swordsoul purity is 25.6%; 14 generic slots and several off-engine tech cards (Forbidden Droplet ×2, Super Polymerization, D.D. Crow, Infinite Impermanence) dilute the engine
• No recorded combo boards, so ceiling and median are inferred from text only

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (2 copies) gates the Albaz fusions and the Golden Swordsoul destroy
• Swordsoul Token enables all Synchro lines; a hand without a Level 4 Tuner or starter stalls

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 30 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, all copy limits met; Card text for all listed cards, including negation and removal text; Banlist: Super Polymerization Limited (1/1), The Golden Swordsoul Semi-Limited (2/2); Usage statistics: 17 archetype rows, 12 of 17 core cards present when Extra Deck is counted
• Inferred: Starter consistency P ≈ 0.94 (archetype core), 0.76 (searcher), 0.61 (hand trap, going second); Combo ceiling and interaction quality from card text; Pilotability and resilience estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (no tournament context); Side deck adaptability (no Side Deck and no post-side data)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics core matching appears to ignore the Extra Deck: Chixiao, Chengying, Draco Berserker, Baxia, and Mirrorjade are in the cards list (extra zone) but flagged in_this_deck=false, so core_present_pct 41.2% is understated (about 70.6% when Extra cards are counted) Droll & Lock Bird (82% usage) is absent; no evidence on why it was excluded