Swordsoul Deck #765153 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 67/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 20 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss (Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Chaos Angel, Ruddy Rose Dragon, Chixiao) summoned off a Swordsoul/Stardust tuner shell that Emergence and Mo Ye keep fed; Hand-trap-protected Synchro board: Stardust Dragon, The Iris Swordsoul and The Golden Swordsoul negate the opponent's interaction while the boss attacks
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Swordsoul Emergence or Swordsoul of Mo Ye to search a Swordsoul monster (or a Wyrm if a Synchro is controlled), then Synchro Summon into a 3000+ ATK boss using the Tuner/non-Tuner pair from hand and field
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, Nibiru and Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit to stop the opponent's first board, then rebuild with a Tuner from hand and Synchro Summon through the remaining board
• Recovery: Banish Emergence and use the 5 searcher-text cards to re-search, while the Golden Swordsoul and Iris Swordsoul recover tempo from the hand; Stardust Dragon protects the boss from removal
• After siding: No side deck is run in this export, so there is no post-side plan; Duel Links does not rely on a side deck here

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: at least one of Swordsoul Emergence or Swordsoul of Mo Ye is in the opening five with about 87% probability by hypergeometric count (Inferred), and five searcher-text cards keep the engine re-fuelled. Conversion comes from a 9-card Synchro Extra Deck whose bosses (Chengying 3000, Chaos Angel 3500, Ruddy Rose 3200, Draco 3000) are real closing threats. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: seven hand traps and three to four negation effects in the Main and Extra Decks cover the first board on the going-second turn, which the 96% hand-trap probability supports (Inferred). The score was built from consistency, interaction and boss quality on the list as a whole; it did not come from Swordsoul being a popular archetype and was not an average of card scores. No recorded boards, match records or dated meta exist, so the floor, median and ceiling are text-only and confidence is Medium.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 78, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: Core fidelity (2); Off-archetype splash load (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); Structural = 67.7 (Midrange weights), TR = 64, modifiers net 0 => 66.97, rounded to 67

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.87 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.13 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Seven hand traps plus negation effects cover the going-second turn
• Nine-slot Synchro Extra Deck is full with bosses at 2800-3500 ATK
• Every usage-core card is present, so the list follows the archetype-standard core

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the floor, median and ceiling are unmeasured
• Low exact Swordsoul purity (44.8%) with a Stardust, Tenyi, Chaos and Rose splash
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation

Critical choke points

• Emergence or Mo Ye in hand: about 13% of opening five-card hands lack both (Inferred)
• Golden Swordsoul is Semi-Limited and already at the 2-copy limit, so it cannot be raised

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 20 Main / 9 Extra / 0 Side, Golden Swordsoul 2 of 2 Semi-Limited; Composition: 9 Synchro in Extra, 7 Tuners, 7 hand traps, 5 searchers, 5 negation texts; All 18 usage-core cards are present in the card list (Main or Extra)
• Inferred: Starter probability 0.871 and brick estimate 0.129 (hypergeometric); Interaction density and going-second hand-trap coverage (0.956); Structural weights and dimension scores
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup fit: no dated metagame or tournament link; D12 post-side adaptability: no side deck exported
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent No win-rate, going-first/second, matchup or brick/starter telemetry in YGOVN usage_statistics in_this_deck and missing_core flags ignore the Extra Deck: Chixiao, Draco, Chengying and Stardust are flagged missing but are present in the Extra zone, so the 61.1% core figure is understated Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample