Instructions for playing and building Swordsoul

Instructions for playing and building Swordsoul

With the newly released Swordsoul deck, there will probably be some newbies who don't know how to build and use this deck properly. So, today YGO Vietnam will bring you an article on how to play and build Swordsoul !




overview

Swordsoul is a Synchro-based archetype from the Selection Pack Refined Blade, making an impact on the Master Duel meta upon release after previously being a top contender in both TCG and OCG formats.

But why is the deck considered so strong, one might ask, in this guide I hope to provide a good explanation as to why this is so, as I will look at the cards lesson and explains the basics of how Swordsoul works, along with a sample decklist and a brief combo guide.

And above all, the content of this tutorial article will largely be inspired by masterduelmeta , YGO Vietnam only contributes to translating and bringing you the most understandable content in the article!



Core

Main Deck

Swordsoul of Mo Ye (3x)
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye

Your most basic starter, Mo Ye serves as an introduction to Swordsoul's main theme: Token Generation. Especially Tuner Token, which up to this point has never existed.

Mo Ye is the Swordsoul you'll want to see most often due to its Token spawn effect being the easiest way to get into your level 8 Synchro plays, requiring virtually no setup and also having a strong GY effect Best among all Swordsoul monsters. Never go with less than 3 copies.

Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan (3x)
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Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan
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Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan

If Mo Ye is your most basic starter, then Longyuan is your most basic extender. The discard effect is basically pretty harmless since you'll be sending something that has a GY effect or can be taken back from it, and that effect itself combined with Longyuan's level makes for a very simple Baronne de Fleur Or any Level 10 Synchro Monster in the game, giving you ample space for a flexible toolbox.

Swordsoul of Taia (1-2x)
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Swordsoul of Taia
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Swordsoul of Taia

Although less desirable as a drawn card than any of your other cards, Taia is a good card and a potential agent in play, especially since it is searchable (like any other card). anything in the Deck) and special GY effects that work very well with Tenyi Monster's effects. Generally there can be 1 or 2 copies in the Main Deck

Incredible Ecclesia the Virtuous (2-3x)
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Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous
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Incredible Ecclesia, the Virtuous

Giving you more ways to access Mo Ye, in addition to having a pretty versatile Special Summon condition AND a Tuner, makes Ecclesia a pretty good card. The only downside is that she is neither a Swordsoul nor a Wyrm Monster, making her completely unsearchable and unusable because of the effects of your other Swordsoul monsters, which can sometimes be a problem. topic, but that doesn't really cost you maximum Deck space .

Swordsoul Emergence (3x)
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Swordsoul Emergence
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Swordsoul Emergence

This card is quite simple, it searches for any Swordsoul monster in your Deck or if you control a Synchro Monster, it can search for any Wyrm monster in the game.

A great starter with Mo Ye, a great extender with Longyuan and even a potential addition to the endgame deck when used to search Archnemeses Protos , these are 3 very obvious duplicates in any build any of Swordsoul.

Swordsoul Blackout (1-2x)
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Swordsoul Blackout
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Swordsoul Blackout

An Icarus Attack archetype, due to its ease of access it is mostly only used with 1 copy in the game, but it does not avoid the fact that this is a very stable card when used as your main end-of-the-field deck in most of the deck's field ratio.

Archnemeses Protos (1x)
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Archnemeses Protos
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Archnemeses Protos

In the TCG, Swordsoul causes this card to be banned. And not without reason, this card has the ability to completely lock your opponent out of the match thanks to its effect. Even if said effect doesn't end the fight, such as if you choose to be DARK, as you usually do, it can still lock your opponent out of generic OTK activations like Accesscode Talker or Borrelsword Dragon , keep you able to float a turn before you hit your opponent again. It's unbelievable this was even made up, if I have to be honest. Note that Protos does not need to destroy a monster to apply its floodgate effect (but that Attribute must still be on the field). Since it is immune to destruction, you can always choose DARK for at least no cost.



Extra Deck

 

Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao (2x)
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Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao
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Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao

When it comes to Swordsoul, this is the Extra Deck card that NEEDS to be created. Thanks to Swordsoul Emergence (if not already in use), Chixiao can search any Swordsoul OR Wyrm Monster in the game when summoned. The second effect is a relatively free disruption to the deck and cannot be chain-blocked, as it does not need to respond directly to activations. Remember that you can only use one of Chixiao's effects per turn .

Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying (1x)
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Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying
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Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying

Chengying is less important, but still a strong monster. In terms of level 10 Synchro, it is superior to Baronne de Fleur , however it is almost always your second best choice. Good protection, a strong banish effect (even if it's not always the easiest to use), and a stat manipulation effect that can get pretty big in the late game make for a great card. Overall article is great.

Baronne de Fleur (1x)
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Baronne de Fleur
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Baronne de Fleur

This is the second most important card in the Extra Deck. A generic level 10 Synchro negate is quite easy to create, it can even replace Swordsoul to continue after you're done negating. If you haven't already then this might be a good time to get your hands on Baronne, the card only gets better from this point on.

Baxia Brightness of the Yang Zing (2x)
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Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing
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Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing

One of your main forms of removal, for both monsters and backrows. It can rarely act as a next extender / extended play by destroying itself (or any of your other cards) to revive monsters in the GY, this is often used as a result. works well with Taia's GY effect, as you can Summon any level 4 or lower Wyrm Monster from your Deck.

Draco Berserker of the Tenyi (1x)
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Draco Berserker of the Tenyi
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Draco Berserker of the Tenyi

Draco Berserker proves his worth quite well with Swordsoul, being a generic level 8 Wyrm (which is an important factor in synergy with the Tenyi version of the deck) with effects that make it a pretty good card to end and the second effect that makes it up deals the second most damage. You're not really tight on space in the Extra Deck anyway, so in any build I'd recommend running at one copy.



Engine

 

Tenyi
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Shaman of the Tenyi
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Shaman of the Tenyi
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Monk of the Tenyi
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Monk of the Tenyi
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Vessel for the Dragon Cycle
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Vessel for the Dragon Cycle
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Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda
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Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara

One of the main downsides of pure Swordsoul is that the Deck can feel a bit weak at times, lacking both power and even a bit in extended plays (this is compensated for by the large amount of handtraps). , Tenyis fixed those problems by turning Swordsoul into an almost aggressive combo deck, serving as a starter, extender, and bait for handtraps. The sheer number of things they enable makes them the go-to engine, allowing for more Extra Deck possibilities. The only downside this brings is that the main Tenyi, Ashuna, locks you into Wyrms for the rest of the turn, forcing you to end up on the occasional sub-optimal field set (Also because of this, in some builds won't use Ashuna much...)

Crystron Halqifibrax, Deskbot 001 and Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon (Halqifibrax Auroradon Engine)
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Forbidden
Crystron Halqifibrax
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Forbidden
Crystron Halqifibrax
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Deskbot 001
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Deskbot 001
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Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon
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Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon

An add-on for the Tenyi Engine, this small package adds consistency, power, and resilience to the Deck. Tenyi Monsters will usually be able to go into Halqifibrax before you Normal Summon, and from there by Summoning Deskbot 001 into Auroradon, you'll be able to spawn Baronne de Fleur before being locked into anything important , can remove nibiru or any other handtrap. In addition, this engine also allows for better use of Level 7 Synchro Monsters, especially Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing and since Auroradon can destroy any of your own cards via a second effect , you can get access to the Swordsoul engine with just one play of Halqifibrax, even without a Normal Summon.

Chaofeng Phantom of the Yang Zing (1x)
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Chaofeng, Phantom of the Yang Zing
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Chaofeng, Phantom of the Yang Zing

Another card enabled by the Tenyi engine, Chaofeng is an auto-win against Decks that rely on LIGHT Monsters like Invoked (by turning off Invoked Mechaba ) or Drytron (By turning off pretty much everything).

The reason is that you will be summoning this card primarily using Baxia and Adhara, which means your opponent will be completely unable to use any LIGHT effects in your hand, field, GY, anywhere. where. This is especially important because it means that Nibiru, the Primal Being becomes unusable once Chaofeng hits the field, so you always force your opponent to use it, usually before you are Normal Summoned.

However, Chaofeng should never be your primary target, and you should only summon it knowing that you can continue playing with some other cards you have.

Heavenly Dragon Circle (1-2x)
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Heavenly Dragon Circle
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Heavenly Dragon Circle

Depending on the format, Heavenly Dragon Circle is a great alternative to Vessel (even if there's nothing stopping you from playing them both together) for playing through handtraps, as this card allows you to avoid all the type of targeting effect, which can obviously be useful against cards like Effect Veiler and Infinite Impermanence or even if just going second in certain decks.



Tech

 

Pot of Desires (3x)
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Pot of Desires
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Limited to 1 copy
Pot of Desires

Your staple pot for consistency. Outside of very rare cases, you hardly have anything you don't want to banish, and when you do, you can take it out of the Deck at a time when you wish to use it or are too tempted to play it. You probably won't care about it, your main engine doesn't rely on any one of these.

There's also a bit of interesting synergy with Chengying, as using Desires will give it a 1000 ATK/DEF boost and knock everything the opponent controls by 1000 ATK/DEF.

Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir (1x)
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Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir
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Number 41: Bagooska the Terribly Tired Tapir

There aren't many Xyz Monsters worth running in the deck, but if I had to choose one, I'd go with Bagooska. It's not particularly hard to get and it can be quite good in some matchups (mainly mirror matchups), so it's not a bad choice at all in case you get locked out of Synchro Summon by a card like Token Collector .

Swordsoul Sacred Summit (0-1x)
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Swordsoul Sacred Summit
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Swordsoul Sacred Summit

The only Swordsoul card outside of the cores that you would consider using. Being a searchable recycler itself proves to be quite good, however Swordsoul already has quite a few ways to get resources back from GY so that's not a huge priority, its best trading element is that it can increase the level of escalation to synchro in some cases where you need to bring out good monsters.

Extra Deck Toolbox
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Borreload Savage Dragon
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Borreload Savage Dragon
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Crimson Blader
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Crimson Blader
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PSY-Framelord Omega
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Limited to 1 copy
PSY-Framelord Omega
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Ruddy Rose Dragon
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Ruddy Rose Dragon
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Adamancipator Risen - Dragite
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Adamancipator Risen - Dragite

As I said before, you should think of your Extra Deck as a toolbox, and as such, you can fill it with any Level 8 and 10 Synchro that you think will be useful to you.

The five cards above are some of my personal suggestions, but you can experiment a little and figure it out for yourself.



Combo

Swordsoul's combos tend to be different from each other but end up relying on similar results, in the end you're always looking for an optimal ending deck that features something around Chi Xiao, Baronne's combo lines de Fleur, Blackout, other Synchro or Protos, now obviously there will be stronger decks than that but they will be a very rare exception.

Most of my featured combos will only show 2 card combos, so you won't see any big ending decks, this is just to get a general feel for the deck and how to act on what you have withdrawn.

Swordsoul of Mo Ye and Tenyi Spirit - Adhara (Mo Ye + Wyrm)
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara

  1. Normal Summon Swordsoul of Mo Ye .
  2. Activate Mo Ye's effect, revealing a Wyrm Monster in your hand to Summon Tokens.
  3. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao , using Mo Ye and Token.
  4. Activate Chixiao's effect as Chain Link 1 to search Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan , then use Mo Ye's effect as Chain Link 2 to draw a card.
  5. Activate Longyuan's effect in hand, discarding 1 Wyrm monster you previously revealed to Summon itself and a Token.
  6. Summon Synchro Baronne de Fleur , using Longyuan and Token.
  7. Use Longyuan's GY effect to deal 1200 damage to your opponent.
Yard staging:

Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda and Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna (2 Tenyi)
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Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda
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Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna

  1. Activate the effect of Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna to Summon yourself.
  2. Link summons Monk of the Tenyi using Ashuna.
  3. Activate the effect of Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda to Summon yourself.
  4. Activate Ashuna's GY effect, Special Summon from Deck Tenyi Spirit - Adhara . You are now locked into the Wyrms for the rest of the turn
  5. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao , using Vishuda and Adhara.
  6. Activate Chixiao's effect, search Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan .
  7. Activate Adhara's GY effect, adding back your banished Ashuna.
  8. Activate Longyuan's effect in hand, discard Ashuna to Summon yourself and Token.
  9. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying , using Longyuan and Token.
  10. Use Longyuan's GY effect to deal 1200 damage to your opponent.
Finished pitch:

Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan and Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna (Longyuan + Ashuna)
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Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan
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Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna

Finished pitch:

Swordsoul of Taia, Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna and Tenyi Spirit - Adhara (Chaofeng Line)
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Swordsoul of Taia
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Swordsoul of Taia
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara
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Tenyi Spirit - Adhara

  1. Activate the effect of Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna to Summon yourself.
  2. Link summons Monk of the Tenyi using Ashuna.
  3. Activate the effect of Tenyi Spirit - Adhara to Summon itself.
  4. Activate Ashuna's GY effect, Special Summon from Deck Tenyi Spirit - Vishuda . You are now locked into the Wyrms for the rest of the turn
  5. Synchro Summon Baxia, Brightness of the Yang Zing , uses Vishuda and Adhara.
  6. Using Baxia's resurrection effect, destroy the Monk of the Tenyi to revive Adhara.
  7. Synchro summon Chaofeng, Phantom of the Yang Zing , using Baxia and Adhara. Your opponent is currently not allowed to use LIGHT monster effects , meaning Nibiru is no longer usable after this point.
  8. Normal Summon Swordsoul of Taia .
  9. Activate Taia's effect, banish Baxia from the GY to Summon Tokens.
  10. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao , using Taia and Token.
  11. Activate Chixiao's effect, search Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan . (At your option, you can use Taia's GY effect to send any Wyrm you want from the Deck to GY)
  12. Activate Adhara's GY effect, adding back your banished Ashuna.
  13. Activate Longyuan's effect in hand, discard Ashuna to Summon yourself and Token.
  14. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Supreme Sovereign - Chengying , using Longyuan and Token.
  15. Use Longyuan's GY effect to deal 1200 damage to your opponent.
Finished pitch:

Tenyi Spirit - Shthana and Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (Halqifibrax Line (Shthana + Ash Blossom))
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Tenyi Spirit - Shthana
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Tenyi Spirit - Shthana
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Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring
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Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring

This combo works by accessing Halqifibrax in any way possible, this is simply an example.

  1. Activate the effect of Tenyi Spirit - Shthana to Summon yourself.
  2. Normal Summon your Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring .
  3. Link summons Crystron Halqifibrax using two Summoned Monsters.
  4. Use Halqifibrax's effect to Special Summon Deskbot 001 from the Deck.
  5. Link to summon Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon with Halqifibrax and Deskbot 001.
  6. Activate Auroradon's effect, Summon 3 Level 3 Tokens.
  7. Activate Deskbot 001's GY effect to Special Summon yourself.
  8. Synchro Summon Yazi, Evil of the Yang Zing with Deskbot 001 and two Tokens.
  9. Activate Auroradon's second effect, sacrificing itself (and only itself) to destroy Yazi.
  10. Using Yazi's GY effect, Summon from Deck one Swordsoul of Taia .
  11. Activate Taia's effect, banish Shthana from the GY to Summon Tokens.
  12. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao , using Taia and Token.
  13. Activate Chixiao's effect as Chain Link 1 to search for Swordsoul Strategist Longyuan , then use Taia's effect as Chain Link 2 to send GY a Tenyi Spirit - Adhara .
  14. Activate Adhara's GY effect, adding back your banished Shthana. (You can do this because you still control a monster with no effects, which is the final Mecha Phantom Beast Token )
  15. Activate Longyuan's effect in hand, discard Ashuna to Summon yourself and Token.
  16. Synchro Summon Baronne de Fleur , using Longyuan and Token.
  17. Use Longyuan's GY effect to deal 1200 damage to your opponent.
Finished pitch:

Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna and Swordsoul of Mo Ye (Smallest summon combo)
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Tenyi Spirit - Ashuna
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye
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Swordsoul of Mo Ye

This combo is intended to be used when you want to play around Nibiru and don't have enough resources to do so effectively, or when you get hit by Maxx "C" and still want to end up based on 1 thing what.

  1. Normal Summon Swordsoul of Mo Ye .
  2. Activate Mo Ye's effect, revealing a Wyrm Monster in your hand to Summon a Token.
  3. Synchro Summon Swordsoul Grandmaster - Chixiao , using Mo Ye and Token.
  4. Activate Chixiao's effect as Chain Link 1 to search for a Swordsoul Blackout , then use Mo Ye's effect as Chain Link 2 to draw a card.
Finished pitch:




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