Why You Should Play Swordsoul! Deck Analysis + Ranked Gameplay

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[@Dkayed]

Top Decks: www.masterduelmeta.com/tier-list/deck-types/Swordsoul%20Tenyi What deck should I cover next??

[@earthling123]

Timelord. Give my liege the respect they deserve

[@moaazammar7460]

The new cyber dragon support

[@edd1890]

synchrons

[@kennyfrancois9328]

Mathmech Salamangreat

[@liverusrock6789]

Defnitely Dragon Link!

[@ibra8096]

Best yugituber, great explanations and commentary play-by-plays. Thank you for the help you and your community has provided, creating the MD meta site (along with various other things). Saves me a ton, every-time I needed to get clued in on something (the attention to detail is fantastic and looks beautifully professional). Keep doing what you’re doing and love!

[@critanddam9031]

True he taught me how to play sky strikers 😩

[@Dkayed]

I immensely appreciate the support and kind message. It gives me great motivation. Thank you!

[@eggsee_]

Bro speak facts 🗣️🗣️

[@BaldwinTheFifth]

Can you please use my Rookie code? I've just returned to the game after almost 2 decades and I could use the help 15bd377c

[@DG_Raizen]

Swordsoul is probably the safest competitive deck in the game. They haven't eaten any hits (TCG Protos notwithstanding), it's pretty straight forward to pilot, can work through hand traps, and is pretty much guaranteed to win you some duels. On top of that, it doesn't require much tweaking during format changes.

[@lanyardodo]

It was the first deck I tried to make after branded in MD started getting bans and it took me a while to make the list especially since I was doing it before the secret pack… I then went on to have to have ten consecutive losses to tear, sprightly, branded, tribrigade, heroes, labrynth and mirror matches so I gave up. It feels like it can play through anything sometimes but I never really felt that when playing against good opponents. I think I’m just not compatible with the playstyle.

[@umbertoferraris5787]

Well, imo yes and no. I played Swordsoul for a while both in TCG and Master Duel, and the deck is pretty powercripped now... The first issue is that the combo line is often the same, also you need the normal summon and Impermanence on Mo Ye or Taia can kill you. Another thing is that the board you create isn't that good: typically is Baronne, Chixiao and maybe Blackout. Well, again, an Imperm on Baronne and your omni-negate is gone... I feel like is very easy to stop Swordsoul from make their combo and to playing it going 2nd. There are lot of better stuff that isn't meta, like PUNK with Kashtira engine that's really fun

[@zekiel2533]

​​@@umbertoferraris5787that's an average way of playing swordsoul. Swordsoul can do more then that. Like ending on chixiao qixing berserker blackout pass. Most players dont know swordsoul beyond the basic combos. They're are ways to play through imperm also They're are other ways to play the deck too. Most don't try tho.

[@phoenix5095]

​​@@zekiel2533 as someone who has basically mastered the intricacies and lines within the deck I will say that this deck honestly not worth playing anymore the thing about this deck is that it has been powercrept to hell a player must understand whennits time to drop a deck, why play swso when there's like 10 other decks that do what it does but better, it's best attribute was that it was good going 1st and arguably better going second now there's more decks like that but better

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

@@phoenix5095 swordsoul being the 4th best deck in the game might disagree

[@ahmed_hydrogen863]

Whole master duel will become swordsoul after this video

[@Paul2890Alvarez]

ikr hahaha

[@MilfHunter42069]

Play to expect it

[@ACE_KO5]

Yep I agree SS was good for so long and now because of this video now SS has a target on its back and now Konami is going to nurf it

[@MechaStorm7]

that's funny because Arise-heart is coming very soon

[@In_Poster]

Main deck Token collector ez

[@bdiax]

Made ss a couple of seasons ago and never regretted it. Can always hop in and jump in ranked and have fun

[@BigNastyJacko]

Really like this type of video. Gives some love to an older deck type that’s still very effective with in-depth analysis and deck building. Not top tier but would love to see some Cyber Dragon love

[@stfdcrst]

SS is great for new players bc it teaches you pretty much every mechanic in the game and applications of said mechanics, while being really easy and straightforward to pick up and learn, competitively viable, cheap to make, future proof, and its genuinely really fun

[@sama9205]

what is SS

[@fo3nixz877]

SwordSoul@@sama9205

[@kinko4786]

​@@sama9205sword soul

[@stfdcrst]

@@sama9205 swordsoul

[@roxas4587]

@@sama9205 swordsoul in this context.

[@lordzedd9453]

Dkayed been explaining and deck building so well for years now yugioh feels like a sport when I watch his videos or live 😂 your a goat

[@xypher5538]

I Love Swordsoul Thank You Dkayed! I was getting frustrated losing so much with this deck but I had hope seeing you play this deck again!

[@eonflutehza131]

Swordsoul was the deck that helped me compete when True King of All Calamities was legal. I'll always have respect for the deck and always fun to play

[@Seveinis]

I’ve had this deck since release and recently started playing master duel again. Watching this video shows I clearly did not spend enough time with the deck to learn its ins and outs

[@MrBeau119]

I’ve been play sword soul for a while now and it’s fun. I’m still learning when certain plays are better than others, but still ton of fun.

[@toji8302]

wow this was a very informative video. im excited to see u do more of these type of videos

[@lwandlebluestar4713]

I've never seen anyone play sword soul like this like damn father dkayed does it again making me get another deck with his amazing gameplay✅️

[@chaotic.rampage]

Love the way you break down decks and explain

[@PLazmSoul]

i love swordsoul been playing it since it came out great to see you covering it

[@alexanderthomas4425]

These are the vids we need play by play against various decks different situations

[@MarioLopez-xs3vc]

Swordsoul builds for ladder should honestly be optimized for going second. Deck has way more options for board breaking and OTKs than for turn 1 setups. For tourneys you're still probably fine going first just because of all the people on coinflip decks there.

[@gandalfdawhitekid913]

Ive been playing swordsoul since it came to master duel and ive loved every minute of it

[@wolf-marks9353]

This is very well explained thank you

[@arthurlees4341]

I’d really love an updated Branded Despia guide in the style of this video

[@DeathUsagi]

1:46 "Purrely player has forgotten to read"

[@aceondrills8151]

Man I had the most op swordsoul turbo vfd deck master duel had ever seen. You could summon vfd by punk engine into halq into auroradon and then finish with a 3 monster swordsoul board plus protos in some lucky cases. Masterduel hit this deck hard. The board was literally unbreakable.

[@lorekakashi]

This is the kind of video I like to see in this channel

[@psc6483]

best thing about this deck is that it is almost free because you get a whole starter deck around ss so you dont have to spend gems on mo ye or the synchros

[@gaming1zanagi-1999.]

Yep plus if you got Tenyi you are a beast cause I remember I almost OTK'd someone with two Synchros already summoned plus a full monster field

[@darkraisprodigy3696]

Ive been playing SS IRL for the past year and all these strats, interactions as well as explanations are great. Ive actually found that using the strat against Unchained actually stops alot of decks. What i mean hy that is. Ise Book of Moon and Eclipse. Yes eclipse gives ur opp cards but in the end if ur able to play around their cards and win its viable. Not only that but im using Borreload Savage with White Woman and it helps tremendously when im aboe to do the card combo. Especially when im up against Dogmatika.

[@darkraisprodigy3696]

Another thing I don't see myself going into Yazi or Chaofeng a lot. I play 10 duel one time with them and out of those 10 I had iirc 2 or 3 duels and I'm like these are wasted slots. And hardly anyone is using Nib everyone is using Kaijus, Golem or Santa.

[@junkymirnel6562]

Dkayed should be hired by Konami to cast official MD tournament. Dude is insane!

[@Mauroreq]

I love this because the artwork. Samurai dragons? Son of bit** im in!

[@anima_animus_self9988]

I’ve been playing SwSo since it dropped it’s my go to currently working in making it Royal SwSo just because it’s been my go to for so long.

[@rogermalpass5278]

Wow what an amazing video. im some what new and this helped me understand the deck i built a few days ago much appreciated!

[@Ultimate_neos]

I know Swordsoul. The best. But with who? Yang Zing combo is the craziest one. Try it. You won't regret it.

[@zekiel2533]

Most players sleep on the yang zing variant. I play it with the least amount of yangzing cards and it's still consistent

[@neverknew07]

I like matching up against swordsoul , its a fun matchup w Zombies

[@davy9303]

That was so much info 🤯

[@ricardocaceres9746]

Love your videos Dkayed, can we have this deck profile on Scareclaw? It is definitely a personal favourite of mine even if it's not that good.

[@The_Rizzen]

Super comprehensive video @Dkayed! But can this play through Fictinium's insane turn 1 Lyrulisc board? :P

[@Dokkan-yugioh1998]

Just summoned on the sword soul pack x10. Can’t wait to build a sword souls deck. I’m still a beginner only in gold tier rn but I’ll get to diamond and masters some day

[@Dokkan-yugioh1998]

Not a beginner to yugioh just master duel. Only lvl 9 rn

[@rickaaay3938]

ive been playing swordsoul tenyi for year and really enjoying it

[@fakesun1700]

Moye and Iris, my beloved cards

[@thebean6496]

Swordsoul is my favorite deck I was climbing through ranked with them

[@stickra524]

Love swordsoul! When diamond 1 was the best rank I hit it with swordsoul and last season I hit master 1 with swordsoul.

[@dcbizzy_]

Decklist?

[@mgreen1003]

SwoSwo rocks! Great vid!

[@johnnyblaze10]

its always funny how diffrent tournament and ladder is. purrely is a great example. i see people going for attack damage line. my deck focuses primarily on noir and gaining materials for it. clear oponnents field, have a fat unaffected noir and they will surrender 9/10 times. theres delicious if you need more atk but i dont think i had to reduce their life points to win in the last like 30 duels 😂

[@giancapa7]

Someone must have seen Dkayed doing this live, because that person did the Chaofeng Light block to me earlier today using Swordsoul, but for some reason that person didn't bring Protos. Sadly, I wasn't playing neither Light or Dark monsters, but that was like "hey! I saw Dkayed do that too!"

[@hel9157]

Chaofeng and Protos light and dark block was a already a common thing before during the dpe meta, it's just less used now cause halq was banned

[@QubeZ-one]

I would love to see a deck analysis of Dragon Link.

[@SR3TG119]

Ain’t nobody got 7 years worth of time to watch that long ass video lmao

[@Leonardo.ohime.i]

I never played the deck but I know every single play cause of how common it is

[@TheBlackBilly]

I was already playing ss but with a different build of course. It does in fact play well against most decks. Even plays well against Kash.👌🏿

[@sambunyan274]

Damn dude you are good. Thanks for the tips.

[@omarilockhart1552]

True King Lithosagyn…pop 2 earth (2 monk, adhara, etc)…special summon then banish 3 extra deck monsters with different names

[@hlopar3138]

you can use also Icejade Gymir Aegirine. Its amazing vs kashtira decks bc they cant bann anything :D

[@jacopocarrea1393]

That is why you use the other lirylusc xyz with purrely, so you don't die

[@gedeputrautama1184]

Ah, yes. The deck that had been bringing me to the top tier since 7 - 8 months ago (back when master 1 wa not introduced yet, top was still diamond 1)

[@JimIBobIJones]

The worst thing about maining swordsoul is that you spend most of your games watching the other guy do endless turns regardless of whether you win or lose. The best thing about going up against swordsoul is that they have relatively quick combos regardless of whether they win or lose.

[@gaming1zanagi-1999.]

Yeah and when it comes on fellow Swordsoul deck user it is a matter of who can utilise each cards better XD

[@JimIBobIJones]

@zanagizengamer5003 well now that Baronne is banned in the TCG RIP swordlsoul. I don't think the deck is viable without an omni negate.

[@thanderhop1489]

really good idea for a new series

[@peekay120]

I feel like swordsoul is honestly one of the most well designed archetypes in the game's history. It is very powerful, strong enough to have stuck around for like 2 years in the tcg now, but its not unfair (you could argue that protoss was unfair, but protoss has been banned, at least in the tcg, for ages now), and that is pretty rare in yugioh, also look at the fact that no swordsoul cards were ever hit on the banlist, support cards dont count obviously. Again, how many top tier decks can say that they have never had any of their core archetype cards hit on the banlist, basically none. Now i know that a lot of the criticism of the deck revolves around "Swordsoul is boring" or something like that, and yeah, Chixiao+Baronne pass is hella boring, but that is barely scratching the surface of what the deck is capable of, the deck has so many different lines of play, that if you are good enough, you are able to play your way out of almost anything with swordsoul, the ceiling on this deck is actually crazy.

[@gaming1zanagi-1999.]

Yeah the fact you can summon synchro summon alone is already good enough especially when you can summon link ones relatively easy especially xyz summons

[@songyiming4517]

I have been playing swordsoul here and there since it came out in md, from destiny fusion + vanity's emptiness, to massive combos with halq into auroradon, to dimensional fissure to counter tears, swordsoul always seems playable. In the current meta yeah it has outs to some of the other decks. But one big issue I have been having recently is that swordsoul absolutely sucks against mikanko. Whether it's lava golem, or just tributing over the 10* synchro and then leaving the 8* Chixiao with nothing to target on the field. Sometimes you know for sure it is versus mikanko cos they let you start first, but you don't have any solid play to stop them from OTKing you.

[@drmbilals]

if you're lucky you ll have enough cards to go into Chao Feng via Baxia... otherwise RIP

[@Immortal-sr8gq]

Mikanko: let Me introduce myself.

[@lman2047]

Honestly love the deck. Dont know why i just do, Maybe because of the designs and effects? I just love the deck, and its honestly been the only deck I've been playing ever since it got released into MD.

[@Did_No_Wrong]

I'm honestly surprised Protos has dodged the banlist for so long.

[@thebean6496]

Same I love playing that card but I am really surprised it was never banned

[@Leonardo.ohime.i]

I mean it's a UR it's legal in ocg and it's worse I a b01

[@jetherarroz1118]

Imagine disabling dark when your opponent doesn't have dark RIP I guess hahahahahahaha

[@harrya9458]

The card is only unfair in a bo3 format where you can summon it on the first turn and call your opponent’s key attribute without giving them a chance to stop you. In Master Duel the most you can do going first is call dark or commit based on a read

[@TheDeadlyTikka]

still personally the best deck ever made. Not in terms of power but balance and fun. Nothing cheesy or annoying just a good deck with a simple play style but plenty of quirks to make it interesting

[@hansygr8130]

FINALLY YOU TALK ABOUT SWORDSOUL

[@zoltorortegus6259]

@Dkayed Well Sordsoul is kind of broken in the sence that you need atleast 3 negates to stop their comboing. In older formats that was possible, but in modern yugioh that's not viable, as it will mean you brick too much. This doesn't make Swordsoul unbeatanle, but it means you have to handle them differently then any other deck. Instead of countering/negating their turn 1, It's more about outing their field. Yhe weakness of Swordsoul is their field is never all that strong(generally if you have a hand good enough to bait baron, and then still have plays afterwards, you'll beat swordsoul easily).

[@Midneight0]

Good video dekayed. I don't think 95% of swordsoul players know what baxia does so this might help a bit

[@TurboDude9111]

My favourite deck in master duel!

[@travisdinham6084]

Deep down i know SS is Dkayed's favourite deck in MD for a while now

[@GyzelE]

I was messing around and found an unlikely deck- Swordsoul Stardust Dragon! If you summon mo-ye, reveal wyrm, summon token, use Stardust synchron to banish token, then voilà! You have access to both Stardust and Swordsoul plays.

[@gaming1zanagi-1999.]

Just don't mixed it with pendulums cause apparently it is like water and oil

[@BladeEdge86]

No wonder Swordsoul decks always wipe me out. I have considered making a Swordsoul deck for a while now, and now I have decided to go ahead and do it.

[@doomadreadon]

Finally! A good reason to play Swordsoul!

[@arnabsamanta576]

Sir this deck is top tear to your hand some year ago this deck is good

[@chief_eeph4732]

SWORD SOUL 🔛🔝!!!

[@tatoo777]

i have a dyna deck...with barrier statue of the Fire and 2 Fenrir(kashtira) ...Moon Barrier...Power of the Guardians ( and a lot of drawing cards)... is putting this deck in his knees (sometimes they surrender without playing 1 card ) 💪💪💪(i reposted )

[@kyleroll95]

Swordsoul is great deck to play with a good spell, trap disable board

[@marktwayne9796]

My favourite deck centered around my favourite summoning mechanic. My only disappointment with Swordsoul is they never received any "real" support besides Qixing Longyuan.

[@user-xt5ps5nl3o]

Indeed. I still can't believe that the latest support is a useless trash spell. That's sad.😢

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

I feel like this deck doesn't need more support... unless protos gets banned i guess

[@jetherarroz1118]

Bruh they need supports like other decks have just look at the usual end board that SS have it's either GM, Barrone, and blackout/protoss or GM, qixing and protoss/blackout. See it's not even good againts other end board like dlink, spright, and branded also remember that SS bricks a lot when Moye is negated.

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

@@jetherarroz1118Swordsoul obviously doesn't have a comparible endboard to spright or d-link (although protos is better in the right matchups), but its the fact that it is so versatile that makes it strong. Going first it is worse than spright or d-link, but i would argue that it has a better time going second than those decks do. Swordsoul still prefers to go first, but it is very capable of winning going second. Also remember that swordsoul is currently the 4th best (most tournament represented) deck in the game, which makes it better than any version of spright. Swordsoul has been on the tierlist for more total time than any other deck in the history of md. It probably could use some support in the tcg, but in md, it is still very very good. TL:DR Swordsoul is rly fking good

[@kresnakristiadi2106]

Yep, no doubt, swordsoul still in top tier, the consistency is too good

[@abdullazizalia7776]

Amazing

[@Jester-15]

you should def play swordsoul

[@IDragov]

The lvl 10 icejade synchro could also be a great addition to the deck.

[@user-wx6ms9rv2m]

its just not as good as sinister or baronne, this deck doesn't make enough lvl 10 synchros per turn for this to work

[@SR3TG119]

@@user-wx6ms9rv2mmight be decent when ariseheart comes since she can prevent banishing

[@Miguelon88888]

Swordsoul is a deck I kind hated it when it dropped because everyone using then I started to play it and is one the best modern high tier decks because you don't summon a million times to make your board.

[@ALLORD-YGO]

I'm a DM player and I love playing against swordsoul so much, I decided to build the swordsoul deck. Hated people complaining about swordsoul, it's a very good deck.

[@hunggf]

Okay imma SwordSoul'ing

[@charleslindita8635]

Thank you! Swordsoul strongest😊

[@danielscheiermann6384]

Please do scareclaw next. I feel like the deck has a lot of potential but I am unsure how to make it work

[@alibaagil6284]

Wait until manadome release

[@snooze5124]

I play a blind 2nd Scareclaw and I hit master with it

[@anima_animus_self9988]

Play blind second till support drops to play with scareclaw even the Kashtira cards that about to drop go well with scareclaw. I also hit Master 5 with blind 2nd scareclaw.

[@SR3TG119]

Blind second is the way currently until further support drops

[@danielscheiermann6384]

Thanks guys! Do you use the adventure engine or Kashtira or are you playing pure scareclaw? Also is tri heart still relevant with the new support ?

[@starbomber]

Wait what the heck Psychic end punisher outa nowhere! That's not a Wyrm!

[@Alberto-nj5ig]

Which is the decklist that you used for the replays?

[@SlaytonSlaytonSlayton]

"Why you should play Swordsoul, reason 1: Your IQ is in the double digits"

[@emg4912]

These cards are goated.

[@ronaldorellana8890]

Change title to how to make your opponent lose because he fell asleep to the same combo

[@irvan4784]

P.U.N.K next

[@jayr1ot389]

Well I guess I'll be playing a ton of mirror matches now 😂😂

[@1337Cammy]

How did you manage to get the oponents cards as transparent in the replay?

[@Namelessstew]

I'd like to know too

[@user-mn6ir2hg3e]

Does Swordsoul remain a powerful and difficult-to-out deck IF Protos gets banned?

[@eggsee_]

Even after Halq banned Swordsoul still chilling on the tier list 😂

[@cooldars007]

so this is what happened before I joined the stream btw this deck works even better w kashtira

[@mathewsrivera8136]

I honestly don't like pot of desires, so I would use kashtira for those lol

[@Real_Infinity95]

@Dkayed Hi I have a quick question for you: Can Blackwing Jetstream the blue sky protect Blackwing Full Armor Master from being destroyed by battle one time only?

[@Real_Infinity95]

Never mind. I have my answer.

[@phylicialevy5396]

My first deck ever swordsoul

[@phylicialevy5396]

Punk kashtira is becoming my new favorite way to play

[@jaffplumbs26]

Class vid

[@axzxnxboi]

Ur so good with Swordsoul can u do it for tcg!

[@cipherwing4211]

I play 2 Auspice cause i get to banish 3 cards XD also i can use it to tribute nibiru token

[@SuperSilver316]

Mo Ye one card combo + protos, I just wish we had different lines for the deck

[@jetherarroz1118]

Yeah fuckboi albaz already get so many why not put some to SS instead. And both of them have connection in storyline

[@SuperSilver316]

No matter what the line is, we always end up with Mo Ye, the video does show some flexibility here and there, so that’s not bad, I just wish the deck had a different opening play.

[@kda_1599]

Would you say swordsoul is a modern day version of original blackwings?

[@teletubbyted3995]

Wouldn’t it be good to run about 2 Red Woman if you are playing Swordsoul in this Meta? It would work really great against Purrely and others while you are going 2nd.

[@siruno6024]

Yes, when kashtiras become meta you will need kurikara

[@jetherarroz1118]

True I have 1 red woman jumpscare in my deck and when arise comes I guess I'll add more