Swordsoul Deck #768653 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 55/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 44 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boards (Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying, Swordsoul Sinister Sovereign - Qixing Longyuan, Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao, Draco Berserker, Chaos Angel) backed by banish-based removal and high-ATK attackers; Fallen of Albaz fusion routes (Brigrand, Titaniklad, Mirrorjade), which need Fallen of Albaz (2 copies) as material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a hand-starter such as Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan (3) or Incredible Ecclesia (3), search or summon into a Tuner plus non-Tuner Wyrm Synchro, and use Swordsoul Blackout or Chunjun to clear interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps Nibiru (3) or Evenly Matched (1), or Golden Swordsoul's attack negation, to stop the opponent's first board, then Synchro Summon through the gap (Inferred from card text)
• Recovery: Recur from the GY with Swordsoul Emergence, Swordsoul Sacred Summit, Swordsoul Punishment and Swordsoul Strife, and use Tenyi banish-recursion to refill hand and field (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: None. The deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan. Best-of-3 play is unsupported as built.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably through three-copy hand starters (Longyuan, Iris, Ecclesia, Nibiru) and nine searcher-text cards, which gives an estimated 0.70 chance of at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Its strength is the system, not the card list: the Synchro chain converts into banish-based removal and 2800 to 3500 ATK boards, and the interaction density (23 removal-text and 6 negation-text cards) keeps the board contested. Recovery is comparatively good because Swordsoul GY-recursion and Tenyi banish-recursion refill resources. The score is held back by no recorded combos (text-only ceiling and median), a 50.8 percent exact-name archetype purity with 29 off-archetype copies, 15 singletons, and no side deck. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible, but they add no strength. Card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 62, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 69, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: engine compactness (-2); engine conflicts (-1); weak post-side plan (-3). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional) = 0.80*62 + 0.20*55 - 6 = 54.6, rounded to 55

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.7 · 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

• Three-copy starters and nine searcher-text cards give a fairly reliable opening
• Dense interaction (23 removal-text, 6 negation-text) and banish-based removal
• High-ATK Synchro closers (Chengying, Psychic End Punisher, Chaos Angel, Qixing Longyuan)
• GY recursion through Emergence, Sacred Summit, Punishment and Strife

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only
• Low exact-name purity (50.8 percent) with 29 off-archetype copies
• 15 singleton main slots and several conditional tech cards (Lightning Storm, New Frontier, Evenly Matched) that can dead-draw
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment is possible
• Heavy multi-step Synchro and Tenyi or Fusion decision load

Critical choke points

• Synchro Summon requires a live Tuner and Wyrm material; a hand with no Tuner or Wyrm starter stalls the line
• Fusion routes depend on the 2 Fallen of Albaz copies
• Chengying and Qixing copies (2 each) are the main closers, so losing them to interruption weakens the closing plan

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Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 44 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Foolish Burial and Gold Sarcophagus Limited at 1 copy each; Card text role tags and card stats from the evidence pack; Copy histogram and archetype purity counts; Archetype usage stats (4 rows) are present
• Inferred: Opening probabilities and brick estimates from the hypergeometric tables; Combo ceiling and going-first and going-second reads from card text; Interaction density and recovery plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null), D13 matchup and format fit, and tournament reliability inputs
• 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 exists in YGOVN (going-first, going-second, matchup, brick and starter rates); those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage_statistics marks Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (ref 96633955) as not in deck with core_present_pct 0, but the deck runs 2 copies of card 96633955; the usage module mismatch was not trusted, so core presence is read from the card list (1 of 2 core cards present) Only one guide is attached, with no parsed sections, so the strategic read rests on card text