Swordsoul is disgusting

[German Economy]

Tried the event deck out and it is ridiculous, i have no idea what i am doing and i get a free board with powerful monsters and effects for no effort, a single monster can just summon a 10 star synchro on its own, wtf

Hope the next event will be something fun, its getting harder n harder to enjoy the game as a casual with every new expansion release

[wildnike]

Swordsoul is a modern synchro deck. It was made late last year. Naturally, it was made for the power level of modern YGO, and has a habit of blowing almost everything else out of the water.

Expect to see Swordsoul and its variants as a very popular deck until we get a release which is totally cracked.

Which, if I had my money on something, will be Floowander. And then Spright and Tear.

[Ghost X]

Just wait for Spright lol

[Fatality]

While it is a good deck, it isn't that broken. Free synchros and synergy with the other wyrms make it very versatile. The end board is not that hard to break though. All in all good, but not perfect.

[German Economy]

Originally posted by wildnike:

Swordsoul is a modern synchro deck. It was made late last year. Naturally, it was made for the power level of modern YGO, and has a habit of blowing almost everything else out of the water.

Expect to see Swordsoul and its variants as a very popular deck until we get a release which is totally cracked.

Which, if I had my money on something, will be Floowander. And then Spright and Tear.

so rank will be flooded with this and i wont be able to compete if i dont play this too i guess

hope they improve single player at some point or add alternate modes in general for casual players like me, i really dont want to play the "10 minute turn, 2-5 negates on board" power point presentation,
its no fun being greeted by this and its even less fun doing that to someone else, whats the point of a game if noone gets to actually play

[German Economy]

Originally posted by Fatality:

While it is a good deck, it isn't that broken. Free synchros and synergy with the other wyrms make it very versatile. The end board is not that hard to break though. All in all good, but not perfect.

i wouldnt know, but the four people i played with couldnt break it at all, the moment they tried something it got nullified or destroyed, there is only so much one can do in the first turn with no actual cards on board, with just the 5 or 6 cards on hand

[Angel]

Originally posted by Shining Nipple Man:

Tried the event deck out and it is ridiculous, i have no idea what i am doing and i get a free board with powerful monsters and effects for no effort, a single monster can just summon a 10 star synchro on its own, wtf

Hope the next event will be something fun, its getting harder n harder to enjoy the game as a casual with every new expansion release

I agree, that loaner is by far the strongest one there which encourages easy wins for little effort

[Merilirem]

Once a deck is properly built its actually quite easy to fumble your way into an end board. Pure Swordsoul has very little complexity in its end boards which usually have at most 3 Synchro's.

See the complex part where you need to really think is in deck building. Once your deck is built figuring out lines and optimal plays is mostly just trial and error with a little bit of cleverness to really exploit more situational game-states.

Think of it this way, driving a car isn't that hard. A child could do it to some degree of success. Building one from parts? That's probably a little more difficult. Might need a Teen for that.

[Fatality]

Originally posted by Shining Nipple Man:

Originally posted by Fatality:

While it is a good deck, it isn't that broken. Free synchros and synergy with the other wyrms make it very versatile. The end board is not that hard to break though. All in all good, but not perfect.

i wouldnt know, but the four people i played with couldnt break it at all, the moment they tried something it got nullified or destroyed, there is only so much one can do in the first turn with no actual cards on board, with just the 5 or 6 cards on hand

One droplet or lava golem/sphere mode is usually enough to counter swordsoul, but you definitely need to have the proper cards to have some follow up or you are probably dead. You definitely need a good hand/deck to deal with such decks.

[Merilirem]

Originally posted by Fatality:

Originally posted by Shining Nipple Man:

i wouldnt know, but the four people i played with couldnt break it at all, the moment they tried something it got nullified or destroyed, there is only so much one can do in the first turn with no actual cards on board, with just the 5 or 6 cards on hand

One droplet or lava golem/sphere mode is usually enough to counter swordsoul, but you definitely need to have the proper cards to have some follow up or you are probably dead. You definitely need a good hand/deck to deal with such decks.

Not really. Just having all your cards be playable is usually enough. Baiting works really well when the opponent only has so many plays they can make. Swordsoul boards that aren't the crazy nonsense type have very limited interrupts. If you only have 2 cards you can play and neither dodges the negates they have, well then you are in trouble. Thats not a swordsoul thing though.

[Jeroly]

Enough destruction for me and i won all my game versus them. I play Danger Dark World and Grapha is enough for me (they draw the thing to remove Grapha from the grave when its already too late).

[Artuurs]

Same here, i tried to build a synchro deck with what i had to do the synchro summon quest done but it was awfull, it was too slow, so for the very first time, i thought to use the Swordsoul loaner deck to get that quest done, it being the archetype of solely doing that while the 3rd one was just xyz, and the 2nd one is a mix of both. And yeah, just like you, i had no idea what i was doing, but from the billion times i ran against Swordsouls, i kind of slowly, eventualy picked up the idea of how to play them step by step like starting with that strategist etc., id make mistakes but learn from them and even with mistakes id like you, end up with busted, negating, big nasty boards i mean, i can summon the main monster in turn ONE, in one turn, its crazy how easy and fast it is. and with just 1 monster, i can bounce back and be in good position again, sword soul is indeed, seriously duisgusting but its not as bad as the currently rampant running fussion dragon deck whatever that monster is, god i hate it. Boss monsters shouldnt be so easy to get yet they are if they are a recent, fresh, new archetype, anything basicaly added to this game is OP, the new hotness, the new goto for everyone to be using. Yugioh has gone in a bad direction man.

[Cha0zb0rn]

It'S not only the negates, it's the advantage as well. Mo Ye is a rank 8 synchro and a +1 as she's usually synchroed into chixiao which, additional to her graveyardeffect is a draw 2 cards of which 1 you can choose.

And with baronne being released at the same time is another 1 card omninegate.

And as you don't need many pieces to build a consistent deck as pretty much each card of the archetype somehow ends up in a full board you can easily fit in another 12 negates into your deck in the form of handtraps. My average game against swordsould feels pretty similar to playing against drytron/herald of ultimateness with 5 negates but way more consistent and more difficult to interrupt. And it's only getting worse from here on out.....

[German Economy]

Getting big monsters with decks like this is just free, it takes no skill just playing the most powerful cards and clicking on everything that shines, which this loaner pretty much proved to me.

I dont like that you get all this big monsters right at the start before the oponnent even has anything, the only thing you can do is to have like half of every deck be handtraps while the other half are cards that dont need any support and just make the big monsters on their own, fusion summoning with monsters from deck being one such example too

And then the monsters are immune to everything, cant be targeted, negate multiple cards per turn.. >.>

[Bad Distraction Carnifex]

Without Halq the deck is annoying but not blowout overpowered. They definitely were the start of "Handtraps aren't enough. Need mass board wipes" meta though...which is both good and bad? Hand traps are hard to interact with and are inherently a little broken for it but we're now power crept so badly that they're just not enough anymore and slight/tears are going to make it so much worse.

[Lazer]

Even so called bad Swordsoul monsters are very strong, You can tribute this bird thing on your monster to dodge Impern and Veiler for a monster effect, Iris can be special summoned at any time with your Level 8 Synchro by negating your own monster effects lol. Its the best laoner deck by far because its still Swordsoul.