Swordsoul Deck #773132 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 36/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro and Link boss monsters (Trishula, Lancea, Gymir, Dragite, Graydle, Zealantis) that are protected by Ice Barrier negation and removal; Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying is referenced by usage stats but the Extra Deck lists it at 1 copy (see data gaps)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Ice Barrier starters and generic hand-trap-protected plays, establish a Synchro boss while holding Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse to protect it
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Evenly Matched, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first combo, then convert with Synchro bosses
• Recovery: Pot of Sloth and Foolish Burial Goods refill resources; Mulcharmy Fuwalos and Purulia draw when the field is empty
• After siding: No side deck is listed, so there is no post-side plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

This list is illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run three times against a limit of two, so the score is capped and labelled theoretical/structural-only. The structural read comes from the system, not from averaging card scores. The deck reliably carries interaction: 12 hand-trap-tagged cards and about 12 negation texts give a strong going-second and end-board layer (D7, D8), and Foolish Burial Goods, Pot of Sloth and the Mulcharmy draw effects keep resources moving (D6). Its engine is the weak point: Ice Barrier supplies 20 of 55 cards, but the rest are spread across about 15 sub-archetypes with 1.4% exact-name purity, so a single starter is live in only about 25% of opening hands (D1, D3). No side deck is listed, which drags D12 and the best-of-3 score. Popularity was not credited: the usage stat confirms the archetype core is real, not that the list is strong.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 50, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: illegal_copy_limit_cap (-6); banlist exposure (-3); engine_fragmentation (-3). Final formula: Illegal deck: 0.80*Structural(50) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 48, then the Illegal cap (-6) and modifiers (-12 total, within -12..+12) give 36. Meta Power provisional (null).

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 hand-trap and negation layer that is available on going second
• Multiple Synchro and Link bosses with 2500-3300 ATK
• Resource refill through Pot of Sloth, Foolish Burial Goods and Mulcharmy

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy counts (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies)
• Ice Barrier engine is spread across many sub-archetypes, giving low exact-name purity
• No side deck at all, so no best-of-3 adaptation
• Heavy banlist exposure with several Limited and Semi-Limited cards

Critical choke points

• Only 1 of 3 copies of the key Ice Barrier starters are live in an average opening hand (P ≈ 0.25)
• Any boss plan relies on a Synchro tuner that is one card away from failing

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0; main and extra counts are within the OCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse each over the copy limit (3 vs 2); Banlist status for Harpie's Feather Duster, Droll & Lock Bird, S:P Little Knight, Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Foolish Burial Goods; Usage stat: Infinite Impermanence in 55.6% of Swordsoul decks
• Inferred: Control primary and Toolbox/Midrange secondary from hand-trap, tech and removal density; Consistency estimates from the hypergeometric table; Interaction quality from negation and removal texts
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Usage statistics list Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying as a missing core card, but the Extra Deck contains 1 copy; the export may be inconsistent