Swordsoul Deck #774397 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro/Fusion extra-deck boards (Chengying, Chixiao, Qixing Longyuan, Mirrorjade, Lubellion) pressured by high-ATK end boards after a Swordsoul/Wyrm starter chain; Albion the Branded / Lubellion Albaz Dragon fusion line with Fallen of Albaz as material
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 search or summon via Swordsoul Emergence / Ecclesia / Fallen of Albaz, convert into a Wyrm Synchro or Fusion boss, and hold Impermanence or Droplet for the first response
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle, Golden Swordsoul, Infinite Impermanence) to blank the opponent's first board, then rebuild with Swordsoul recursion from the GY
• Recovery: Recur Swordsoul monsters with Sacred Summit and Emergence from the GY or banish zone, then re-Synchro through the Tuner tokens
• After siding: Not applicable: 0 side deck cards in the list (Duel Links single-game format), so there is no side-deck plan to evaluate

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a functional Swordsoul starter: the archetype-core group is 0.991 likely to have at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and the searcher text group is about 0.70 (Inferred from the hypergeometric estimates). It converts that opening into Wyrm Synchro and Fusion bosses with ATK 2800 to 3000 on the end board, and the interaction suite (7 hand traps plus Impermanence, Droplet, Blackout and Golden Swordsoul) gives it real layered answers, which is why it scores well on interaction and going-second pressure. Scores are structural and computed across the 14 dimensions on the whole list, not averaged from card scores, and the Swordsoul popularity in the guides is not counted as power. The ceiling and floor cannot be separated with recorded boards because no combos were supplied, so combo dimensions rest on text-only inference, and no meta or win-rate sample exists, so Meta Power stays provisional and the score carries ±6 uncertainty.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange primary with Toolbox weight shifts; Stun interaction credited within D7 only. Structural ≈ 64.4, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); engine coherence (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; modifiers net 0)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.99 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.01 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense, redundant starter set (Emergence, Ecclesia, Albaz, Sacred Summit) gives multiple routes
• Strong layered interaction: 7 hand traps plus several spell/trap answers
• High-ATK Synchro/Fusion boss options with a mix of Synchro, Fusion and Xyz routes

Weaknesses

• Full 30-card main deck with several single-purpose tech cards (Droplet, Impermanence) reduces flexibility
• No side deck, so there is no post-side adaptation in the export
• Off-archetype fusion-enabler copies dilute the exact-name engine

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz is required for Mirrorjade and Lubellion, so losing it cuts the fusion route
• The Golden Swordsoul is the main going-second hand trap and is capped at 2 copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status: 30 main, 9 extra, 0 side within duel-links size rules; Golden Swordsoul Semi-Limited at 2 copies, legal; Card stats and text excerpts for all 25 distinct cards; Archetype core group hand5 probability 0.991
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency and brick rate from hypergeometric estimates; Going-first and going-second interaction density from card text; Ceiling and median reads from text (no combos)
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (Tier 3 claim from a guide snippet only)
• 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, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags conflict with the card list (e.g. Chixiao, Chengying, Qixing, Mirrorjade and Dragite are present in the Extra list but flagged missing), so core-coverage numbers are unreliable no side deck supplied, so D12 relies on the absence of data deck title is null