Swordsoul Deck #701324 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 24 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Fusion boss pressure from the Extra Deck (Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Adamancipator Risen - Dragite, Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan), reached through Swordsoul search and Synchro chains (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Fusion pressure through Fallen of Albaz into Lubellion or Mirrorjade, with Albion as a Branded side route (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Swordsoul Emergence or Sacred Summit to search or revive a Swordsoul/Wyrm, use Mo Ye or Longyuan for Swordsoul Token Summons, then Synchro into a boss (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold The Golden Swordsoul, Droll & Lock Bird, and D.D. Crow to interact with the opponent's first attack or summon, then rebuild through Swordsoul search effects (Inferred)
• Recovery: Banish Swordsoul or Wyrm cards from the GY to refuel Swordsoul of Taia, Chixiao, and Emergence effects, and reuse the Swordsoul Token engine (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is run, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: its six searcher-text copies have about an 80% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred hypergeometric), so the Swordsoul engine is usually live by turn 2. Its interaction is the strongest part of the list, with four hand-trap or negation-text cards (Golden Swordsoul, Droll & Lock Bird, D.D. Crow) and an approximately 71% chance of at least one hand trap in a 6-card going-second hand (Inferred). The score is held back by the absence of recorded boards, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference, and by the lack of a side deck and any tournament or meta evidence. Popularity and the Swordsoul name did not earn points, and card scores were not averaged; the score reflects consistency, interaction and conversion read on the system. Only 48.5% of Main Deck copies are exact Swordsoul, and the Albaz, Branded, Dogmatika and Yang Zing pieces pull against the core engine, which costs points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 61, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(61.1) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(58) + ContextModifiers(-3) = 57.5, rounded to 58 (Meta provisional, null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.8 · 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

• Consistent searcher density (six copies) keeps the Swordsoul engine live on most openings (Inferred)
• Four hand-trap or negation-text cards plus Droll lock give layered interaction, including going-second (Inferred)
• Compact main deck: 24 cards, 13 distinct names, 4 singletons (Verified)
• Legal on every Duel Links check, including The Golden Swordsoul at 2 of 2 copies under its Semi-Limited limit (Verified)

Weaknesses

• Only 48.5% exact-archetype purity; off-theme Albaz, Branded, Dogmatika and Yang Zing pieces dilute the engine (Verified composition)
• No side deck, so the deck has no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• Ceiling and median are unmeasured: no recorded boards exist in the evidence (Verified gap)
• Usage deviates from the archetype core: Chengying, Chixiao, Draco Berserker, Effect Veiler and Ghost Ogre are absent, and Mo Ye is run at 1 copy against a typical 3 (Verified usage)

Critical choke points

• Synchro bosses depend on a Tuner and Wyrm pair, so losing the Tuner to a single removal or negation can stall the Extra Deck (Inferred)
• Swordsoul Emergence and Sacred Summit carry most of the search and revive load; the 3-copy Emergence is the main single-card dependency (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 24 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side within duel-links size rules (20-30, 0-9, 0-9); The Golden Swordsoul 2 of 2 copies under Semi-Limited limit; Composition: 13 distinct Main names, 17 of 33 off exact-archetype copies (48.5% exact purity); Usage: 7 of 12 core cards present (58.3%); missing Chengying, Chixiao, Draco Berserker, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre
• Inferred: Searcher-text group ≈ 0.80 at least one in a 5-card hand; Hand-trap group ≈ 0.71 at least one in a 6-card going-second hand; Golden Swordsoul, Droll & Lock Bird and D.D. Crow as interaction from card text; Synchro and Fusion boss plans from card text and Extra Deck contents; Recovery through GY and banish costs from card text
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample; Matchup fit (D13) and side adaptability (D12) are unmeasured; Median and ceiling output are unmeasured without recorded boards
• Data gaps: No recorded combos: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first or going-second, matchups, brick or starter rates No dated metagame sample, so Meta Power is provisional Deck title is null; no side deck is supplied