Swordsoul Deck #767573 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Link beatdown from Extra Deck (Lancea, Trishula, Icejade Gymir, Swordsoul Chengying, Zealantis) after the Ice Barrier negation shell protects the board; Ice Barrier field-control lock (Revealer, Georgius, Speaker, Warlock) with hand-trap backup
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Tuner plus Ice Barrier starter, keep Ash/Infinite Impermanence up for the opponent's first activation, then Synchro into Trishula or Lancea (theoretical; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash, Droll, Evenly Matched, Nibiru, Dominus Impulse) to answer the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Mulcharmy or Pot of Sloth draws
• Recovery: Special Summon Ice Barrier monsters from GY via Freezing Chains and Speaker/Revealer effects, and recycle with Foolish Burial Goods and Medallion
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs an empty Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a limit of two, so it receives a capped, theoretical structural read rather than a normal contextual score. Its 14 system dimensions were scored on the list as a whole: twelve hand traps and a 20-card Ice Barrier generic core give a credible interaction shell, while sub-archetype spread (Mulcharmy, Icejade, Dominus, Frog, Greed, Cyclone, Harpie, Kaiju, Marincess) at 1.4 percent exact-name purity weakens engine coherence. The Extra Deck has strong 2500 to 3300 ATK Synchro and Link threats, but no recorded boards exist, so the ceiling and median are text-only inference. The empty Side Deck, zero-copy-tolerant copy counts and an unverified matchup profile keep the score low. This was not an average of card scores, and the Swordsoul name and guide mention earned no points.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control primary with Stun-leaning hand-trap read; meta-neutral because D13 is provisional. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-12); Banlist exposure (-4); Engine conflicts (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Twelve hand traps and a multi-copy negation shell give redundant early interaction
• Extra Deck ATK ceilings of 2500 to 3300 with Synchro and Link coverage
• Draw and recycle support from Mulcharmy, Pot of Sloth and Foolish Burial Goods

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse
• Empty Side Deck means no post-side adaptation
• Sub-archetype spread (1.4% exact-name purity) weakens engine coherence
• No recorded combo boards, so floor and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ice Barrier starter density: a 3-copy core has only ~25% open-hand presence
• Extra Deck Synchro summons depend on Tuner access within a 5-card opener

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts from legality block; Copy-limit violations for Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse; Banlist statuses from restricted_cards; Exact-name purity 1.4% and sub-archetype spread
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities; Interaction density and resilience scores from card text; Going-first and going-second splits from hand-trap counts
• Provisional: Meta Power and D13 matchup fit (no dated meta sample); Tournament reliability (no pilot records)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first/second, matchup or brick rates Side Deck is empty, so post-side is unmeasurable Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample