Swordsoul Deck #759814 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 6 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link boss (Bystial Dis Pater, Sangenpai Transcendent Dragion, Ruddy Rose Dragon) reached through Tenpai Dragon and Mulcharmy searches plus Bystial banish-to-summon; Fusion and Link bosses (Promethean Princess, Hiita) once the board is stable; Forbidden Baronne de Fleur and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon cannot be played as listed
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Tenpai Dragon Paidra, Incredible Ecclesia, Retaliating "C") and hold a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler) for the opponent's first activation, then go to a Synchro or Link from the Bystial or Tenpai engine
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Effect Veiler, Maxx "C") to disrupt the opponent's first summon, then Synchro through the held monster
• Recovery: Bystial Saronir and Bystial Baldrake revive from the GY by banishing LIGHT or DARK monsters; Tenpai Dragon Genroku and Fadra recur FIRE Dragons
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be evaluated; a side deck is a precondition for a best-of-3 plan

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system: a 14-card searcher group gives about 78% chance of at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred), and 15 hand traps give about 87% chance of at least one in a going-second 6-card hand (Inferred), which supports the going-second dimension. Interaction is layered across Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre and Maxx "C", but the text-only read and the absence of recorded boards keep the median and ceiling uncertain. Structural score is 54 on the Midrange profile; the Final of 53 was then reduced by -12 context modifiers (Forbidden cards in the list, no side deck, and high hand-trap dependence), giving 41, and the Illegal legality cap reduced the reported score to 30. Popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible, but they earned no points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4); hand_trap_dependence (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*54 + 0.20*48 = 53, then modifiers -12 = 41; Illegal legality cap applied, reported as theoretical/structural-only = 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.78 · 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

• Dense searcher group (14) supports reliable engine access
• 15 hand traps and negate text give layered interaction, strongest going-second
• Bystial and Tenpai recursion gives some recovery from disruption

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 3 Forbidden cards and 3 over-limit copies must be corrected before any normal score
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 plan
• Low archetype purity (1.4% exact name) spreads the engine across four sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Hand traps must be drawn; Ash Blossom at 3 copies (over-limit) is a single point of dead-hand risk
• Synchro/Link bosses depend on a single Tuner or Link chain route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 and Extra 15 are within the OCG size rules; Six copy-limit or Forbidden violations are present; Side count is 0; Searcher-text group is 14 cards and hand-trap group is 15 cards
• Inferred: Hypergeometric opening-hand odds (0.78 searcher, 0.87 hand trap going second); Interaction layering from card text; Recovery and Synchro/Link route redundancy from text; Going-second board-breaking from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (no dated sample); Post-side plan (no side deck); Median and floor (no recorded boards)
• 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 no side deck registered (side_count 0) deck title is null