Swordsoul Deck #771481 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, 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: Fusion Summon Dracotail Fusion monsters (Arthalion, Gulamel, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Secreterion) from the Extra Deck and attack through a single 3000-ATK board; Albaz/Fallen of Albaz Fusion monsters (Alba-Lenatus, Mirrorjade, Titaniklad) for board pressure after Dogmatika and Branded links
• Turn 1 (going first): Search or summon a Dracotail starter (Faimena, Pan, Urgula, Lukias, Phryxul), then fuse into Arthalion or Gulamel; hold Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Red Reboot and Maxx C to stop the opponent's board, then rebuild through Dracotail recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Recur Dracotail monsters from the GY through Lukias, Urgula and Phryxul effects, and use Dracotail Sting, Flame and Horn to rebuild card economy
• After siding: No side deck is run, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The score comes from the deck as a system, not from averaging card scores. Five 3-copy Dracotail starters and 12 searcher-text cards give a Dracotail engine with roughly a 34% chance of at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred). Five hand traps and several Dracotail removal or negation cards give reasonable interaction density, and the 3000-ATK Fusion boards give a strong closing ceiling. The list is pulled down by an incoherent build: it runs Blue-Eyes, Mulcharmy, Bystial, Branded, Ecclesia and Dogmatika pieces with no side deck. Two cards are over the OCG limit and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden, so the deck is Illegal and the score is capped at 30 as a structural-only read. Popularity did not add points: the archetype label is Swordsoul, but the deck runs no Swordsoul cards and none of its usage-stat core cards.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo primary, Midrange secondary, disclosed as a 1:0 profile choice since the Combo profile was applied directly. Structural ≈ 53, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: raw 0.80*Structural(53) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 51.4, then modifiers (-11) = 40.4, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal; Meta Power provisional (null)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Five 3-copy Dracotail starters give a fast, redundant opening
• 12 searcher-text cards support a high chance of finding a starter
• Five hand traps and several negation or removal cards give layered interaction
• Strong 3000-ATK Fusion finishers in the Extra Deck

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards are over the copy limit and Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden
• Incoherent archetype mix: Blue-Eyes, Mulcharmy, Bystial, Branded, Ecclesia and Dogmatika pieces dilute the engine
• No side deck, so the deck cannot adapt between games
• No parseable combo boards; the ceiling and median are text-only inference

Critical choke points

• Dracotail starters are the only real engine; without one in hand the deck relies on searcher text
• Albion the Branded Dragon is Forbidden and cannot be run as built

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Lukias and Arthalion over the copy limit; Albion the Branded Dragon Forbidden; Main 40, Extra 15, Side 0 are within size rules; Card stats and text as listed in evidence
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.34 per 3-copy starter in a 5-card hand; Dracotail engine conversion ceiling from card text; Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament or meta data)
• 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 and matchup results are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied archetype label is Swordsoul but the deck runs zero Swordsoul cards, so the label is unreliable usage-stat core cards (Infinite Impermanence, Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying) are absent