Swordsoul Deck #771477 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck Fusion boards (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Dracotail Gulamel, Secreterion Dragon) built from Dracotail and Fallen of Albaz materials.; Albaz Dragon-family Extra Deck beaters (Mirrorjade, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Alba-Lenatus) as follow-up pressure.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Dracotail monster (Lukias or Ketu Dracotail) and Fusion Summon through Dracotail Faimena, Pan, Urgula or Phryxul materials into a 3000-ATK boss; hold Ash Blossom and Red Reboot for the turn-2 response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 5 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Maxx C, Red Reboot, Dracotail Flame/Horn/Sting style recursion) to answer the opposing starter, then rebuild a Fusion board from the GY.
• Recovery: Dracotail recursion from GY and banish (Dracotail Mululu, Rahu, Flame, Horn, Sting) plus Dracotail Gulamel's GY summon to rebuild after a single-choke disruption.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (Side Deck size 0), so no post-side plan exists.

Why it scores here

This list cannot be scored normally because it is illegal in OCG: three copies each of Dracotail Lukias and Dracotail Arthalion exceed their Semi-Limited limit of two, and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden. The structural read therefore stays theoretical and the final score is capped low. Within that cap, the deck's searcher density (12 searchers, about 85% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand) and its Extra Deck boss package support a plausible starter-to-board line. Interaction is adequate, with 5 hand traps plus Ash Blossom and Red Reboot. However, the deck has no Side Deck, no recorded combos or tournament data, and 55 off-archetype copies against a Swordsoul label with zero exact-name purity, so its engine coherence and median output cannot be verified. No popularity or meta-share points were awarded, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 47.8, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 40, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); archetype_incoherence (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 45.2, then modifiers -12 gives 33.2; Illegal-deck cap applied: min(33.2, 30) = 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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 searcher text (12 cards) gives high odds of finding a starter
• Layered boss Extra Deck with several 3000-ATK Fusion Monsters
• Five hand traps plus Maxx C, Mululu and Red Reboot give interaction depth
• Dracotail recursion gives some resource regrowth

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two over-limit Semi-Limited cards and a Forbidden card
• Archetype label does not match the card mix; 0% exact-name purity
• No Side Deck, so no post-side plan
• Heavy reliance on Extra Deck Fusion access for every line
• No recorded combos, so the median output is unknown

Critical choke points

• Fusion access through the Extra Deck, since most lines depend on Fusion Summons
• Single copies of key hand traps and negation (Red Reboot, Maxx C, Mululu) limit repeatability
• Forbidden Albion must be removed before the list can be legal

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Dracotail Lukias and Dracotail Arthalion each at 3 copies over the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and present in the Extra Deck; Main deck 40 and Extra Deck 15, both within the OCG size rules; No Side Deck present
• Inferred: Searcher density gives about 0.85 chance of at least one searcher in 5 cards; Starter odds for 3-copy monsters are about 0.34 in a 5-card hand; Going-first and going-second estimates are judgment-based, not measured
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated meta sample exists; Matchup fit and tournament reliability depend on missing data
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or OTK rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed Archetype label 'Swordsoul' is not reflected in the card list