Swordsoul Deck #771913 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 38/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss monsters (2800-3500 ATK) summoned off Swordsoul, Elfnote and Ashtra engines, closing through the stat-line bosses; Hand-trap and removal attrition, with Forbidden Crown and Swordsoul Blackout clearing blockers
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Synchro-capable pair (Tuner plus a 2-3 level body), search with Swordsoul Emergency or Elfnote Lucina, and Synchro Summon into a 2800+ ATK boss; hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first summon or engine, then rebuild a board through Mulcharmy draw effects and Synchro into a boss
• Recovery: Mulcharmy Purulia and Fuwalos draw on empty boards, Swordsoul Sacred Summit and Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan recur Swordsoul or Wyrm bodies from the GY
• After siding: Not assessable: the deck has 0 side cards, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its engine is wide but thinly stacked: 13 searcher-text cards and 13 negation-text cards give about a 76% chance of at least one searcher in an opening hand of 5, while the 3-copy archetype core sits at about 25%, so consistency is middling and Inferred. Ten hand traps (about 72% at least one in a going-second hand of 6) and a Synchro-heavy Extra Deck give real interruption resilience and an end-board that can reach 3000 to 3500 ATK bosses. Combo output is not measured because no boards were supplied, so the floor and ceiling scores are text-only and kept modest. Four Forbidden cards (Archnemeses Protos, Triple Tactics Talent, Trishula and Baronne de Fleur) make the list illegal in OCG, and the deck has no sideboard, so the score is capped and reported as theoretical and structural only. Popularity and the archetype's presence in the guide were not counted as strength.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary, Toolbox secondary, applied via the Midrange weight profile. Structural ≈ 50.4, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal status, so capped as theoretical-only

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

• Dense searcher and hand-trap suite (13 searcher, 10 hand trap) gives early access and going-second interaction
• Synchro bosses (Ashtraja Susanoo 3300, Centur-Ion Legatia 3500, Psychic End Punisher 3500, Ancient Fairy Life Dragon 2500 with 3300 DEF) give a large end-board
• Multiple engines (Swordsoul, Elfnote, Ashtra, Mulcharmy) provide route redundancy

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: four Forbidden cards (two in Main, two in Extra) with no legal substitution
• Thin archetype core: only 12 of 70 cards are exact Swordsoul, with 58 off-archetype copies
• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Synchro requirements depend on Tuner availability and a 15-card Extra Deck

Critical choke points

• Illegal list: the four Forbidden cards must be removed before this can be played in OCG
• Tuner access to Synchro-summon each boss, with 11 Tuners in the Main Deck
• Core Swordsoul pieces at 3-copy odds of about 25% in an opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal in OCG, with 4 Forbidden cards over the copy limit; Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; side 0 is within range; Card text for the 3 sampled hand-trap and searcher cards; Usage stat: Infinite Impermanence in 55.6% of recorded decks, 3 copies in this list; Guide exists for the Swordsoul archetype (2022 OCG)
• Inferred: Consistency from the hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density and going-second strength from card text; Structural and final scores; Combo ceiling from text, not recorded boards
• Provisional: Meta power and format fit (no dated meta sample; no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so 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 for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null, so the deck is named only by its archetype No side deck: post-side adaptability cannot be assessed