Swordsoul Deck #765558 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Fusion bosses (Chengying 3000 ATK, Dragite 3000 ATK, Qixing 2900 ATK, Mirrorjade 3000 ATK, Alba-Lenatus 2500 ATK with multi-attack) built from the Swordsoul/Wyrm engine and the Fallen of Albaz Fusion line; Swordsoul Token engine (Wyrm/Tuner tokens that lock the opponent out of Extra Deck summons) combined with Droll & Lock Bird and Effect Veiler to slow the opponent's board
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Swordsoul Emergence or a Swordsoul monster to search or summon the next Wyrm/Swordsoul piece, and use the Synchro/Fusion route through Fallen of Albaz or the tuner line; the exact turn-1 line cannot be verified because no boards were recorded
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Droll & Lock Bird, Effect Veiler, The Golden Swordsoul or Droplet to negate or slow the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Swordsoul Emergence and the Synchro route
• Recovery: Recursion through banished Swordsoul cards (Sacred Summit, Taia, Blackout token effects) and draw effects on Mo Ye, Longyuan and Qixing to rebuild after an interruption
• After siding: None: the deck registers 0 side cards and the format allows 0 to 9, so there is no recorded or constructed post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens its engine: the archetype core is present in about 98.6% of five-card openers and at least one searcher in about 81.5%, with 16 archetype-core copies in the Main Deck (hypergeometric, Inferred). Its resource and interaction profile is stronger than its combo profile. Swordsoul Emergence, Mo Ye, Longyuan and Qixing provide search and draw, and the Droll and Veiler hand traps plus The Golden Swordsoul give negation coverage (9 negation-text cards, 4 hand traps). Conversion and median output could not be measured because no combo boards were recorded, so the ceiling and floor scores rest on card text alone and are capped by that gap. The score comes from the deck's consistency, interaction and closing bosses taken together. It does not come from averaging card scores, and the Swordsoul popularity and usage share earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62.6, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-2); Dependence on one Extra-Deck route (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; D13 dropped and Structural renormalised over 95 weight points)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · 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

• The archetype core is present in almost every five-card opener, so the engine is accessible on turn 1 or 2 (Inferred)
• Four hand traps plus two negation-text Synchros and The Golden Swordsoul give layered interaction (Inferred from text)
• Multiple Synchro and Fusion bosses at 2500 to 3000 ATK give a strong closing board (Verified stat)
• Searchers and draw effects (Emergence x3, Mo Ye, Qixing) let the deck rebuild its hand (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Exact-name archetype purity is only 38.5%; 24 off-archetype copies dilute the engine (Verified)
• No combo boards are recorded, so conversion and median output are unmeasured (Verified gap)
• Zero Side Deck cards means there is no post-side plan and no way to adapt to a matchup (Verified)
• Three Fusion monsters depend on Fallen of Albaz, which is a single 3-copy card (Verified)
• Several Main slots are conditional (Droplet, Book of Eclipse, Blackout) and can be dead in a given hand (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz, which is the only route to the three Fusion monsters (Inferred)
• The Golden Swordsoul, which is Semi-Limited and run at 2 copies, is both the summon negation and the Fusion-linked removal (Verified)
• Swordsoul Emergence x3, which is the main searcher for the Swordsoul core (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Legal, 30 Main (range 20 to 30), 9 Extra (range 0 to 9), 0 Side (range 0 to 9), BanDuelLink field used; The Golden Swordsoul is Semi-Limited and is run at 2 of 2 legal copies; Card text and stats for all 16 distinct Main cards and 9 Extra cards, as supplied in the evidence excerpts; Exact-name archetype purity is 38.5% (15 of 39 Swordsoul-family copies, 24 off-archetype); Usage statistics show the archetype core cards are standard, with 8 of 18 core cards present
• Observed: Guide snippets describe the Swordsoul deck as simple to pilot and in Tier 3 at the time of writing
• Inferred: Core presence in opening hands (0.986) and searcher presence (0.815) from hypergeometric draw estimates; Hand-trap presence on the going-second draw (0.612); Interaction, recursion and resource scores from card text; Fallen of Albaz dependence of the three Fusion Extra cards
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample is supplied; Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral because tournament context is unavailable
• 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 telemetry: going-first, going-second, matchup, starter and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Usage statistics report in_this_deck=false for Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao, Draco Berserker of the Tenyi and Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, but all three appear in the Extra Deck list; the usage in_this_deck flag appears to ignore the Extra Deck and was not relied on for those cards No side deck is registered, so no post-side evidence exists