Swordsoul Deck #770142 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Tenyi hybrid engine
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 45 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link beaters at 2800-3000 ATK (Swordsoul Chengying, Draco Berserker, Tenyi Spirit - Mula Adhara, Sahasrara, Berserker of the Tenyi) converted from a Wyrm-based board; Tenyinfinity and Heavenly Dragon Circle recursion and destruction chains that clear the field before a Synchro or Link summon
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Wyrm/Tuner starter (Tenyi Spirit - Suruya, Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan, Ashuna) to Synchro or Link, using Infinite Impermanence and Ash Blossom to hold up interaction on the opponent's first summon
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Tenyi hand-summons and Synchro/Link beaters
• Recovery: Banish Swordsoul or Tenyi monsters from GY/banishment to re-fire Swordsoul Token, Sacred Summit, Adhara and Shthana revival effects, and search Vessel or Tenyinfinity from the Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck, so no sideboarding plan exists

Why it scores here

The deck reliably generates interaction: 10 hand traps and 17 removal-text cards give it layered answers, and the three-copy Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence give a real chance of a hand-trap on the opponent's first summon. Its engine is less dependable, with about a 30% chance of opening one of the three-copy starters and a 77% chance of at least one searcher, and the Tenyi hand-summons only work when the field holds no Effect Monsters, which conflicts with the Swordsoul board. Conversion to 2800-3000 ATK Synchro and Link beaters is credible but was not measured, since there are no recorded boards, so the combo ceiling and median are text-based inferences. The score is not driven by Swordsoul/Tenyi popularity or by averaging card scores; the deck is scored as a system, then capped low because the Ash Blossom copy count is illegal in OCG and the empty Side Deck leaves no post-side plan.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 59, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 62, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine conflict (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(58.5) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(48) = 56.4; modifiers -4 gives 52.4; Illegal legality cap (Ash Blossom copy count over limit) lowers the reported score to 40 and the evaluation is theoretical/structural-only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.3 · 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 hand-trap and removal layer (10 hand traps, 17 removal-text cards)
• Multiple 3000-ATK Synchro and Link closers
• Strong grind: 11 searchers and GY/banish recursion
• Going-second hand-trap probability near 0.80

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom run 3 copies, limit 2
• Empty Side Deck gives no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (31.7%); Tenyi and Swordsoul conditions conflict
• Many conditional hand-summons create brick risk

Critical choke points

• Single-copy Droll & Lock Bird and Harpie's Feather Duster are Limited, leaving no redundancy for those roles
• Tenyi hand-summons depend on the field having no Effect Monsters, a common board state the deck cannot control

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 45 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Ash Blossom 3 copies vs legal 2 (Illegal); Card text and stats for all listed cards from the export; Copy histogram, type/attribute/race spreads, archetype_spread (Tenyi 25, Swordsoul 19, generic 13); Usage stat: Infinite Impermanence present at 55.6% inclusion; Chengying missing
• Inferred: Starter and searcher probabilities (hypergeometric, Main Deck only); Hand-trap and interaction read from card text; Going-first and going-second scores; Brick-rate and Tenyi/Swordsoul conflict estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13); Tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• 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 Side Deck empty (0 cards) — no post-side evidence Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (core usage 55.6%) not in deck; core coverage is 1 of 2 stat cards