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Silent Swordsman: deck recipe [Feb 3]

Duel Links Silent Swordsman deck, Silent Swordsman in the meta, how to use Silent Swordsman cards.
update 03/02/2023

Overview

Silent Swordsman is a powerful card that can easily fit in any deck that mostly runs Warrior-Type monsters like Gouki. The ability to negate a Spell every turn, floating into Silent Swordsman LV7, and support from Silent Sword Slash make Silent Swordsman quite a difficult monster to deal with.

Required Card Boxes

Main Deck

Arena of Sanctuary Future Circuit Selection Box Vol.04 Mini Swordbound Silence Imperial Joker

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Example Deck

Arcana Knight Version

Arcana Triumph JokerArcana Triumph JokerArcana Triumph JokerSilent Swordsman LV7Silent SwordsmanSilent Swordsman
Silent SwordsmanImperial BowerImperial BowerImperial BowerKings KnightKings Knight
Kings KnightJacks KnightQueens KnightQueens KnightQueens KnightReinforcement of the Army
Jokers StraightJokers StraightJokers StraightSilent Sword SlashSilent Sword SlashCompulsory Evacuation Device
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Heroic Champion - ExcaliburStarliege PaladynamoNumber 70: Malevolent SinBujintei TsukuyomiKnightmare UnicornKnightmare Phoenix
Ferocious Flame SwordsmanLink Disciple----

Set Skill

[Skill] descriptionUser
Gathering of Cards
When you control "Queen's Knight", you can Summon one of the following monsters during your Main Phase in addition to your regular Normal Summon/Set.
In addition, the following effect can be used once per Duel. Send 1 Level 10 non-DARK monster with ? ATK from the hand to the Graveyard, and add to your hand one of the following monsters or 1 monster whose text specifically lists all of the following monsters from your Deck. Then, add all of the following monsters from outside of your Deck to the bottom of the Deck. If you use this Skill, you can only Special Summon 1 monster from your Extra Deck until the end of the turn.
This Skill can only be used/applied if you begin the Duel with a Deck (excluding Extra Deck) that contains at least 10 LIGHT Warrior-Type monsters.
Queens Knight
Jack's Knight
Kings Knight
Yami Yugi
Yami Yugi

How to Use

Silent Swordsman

Silent Swordsman
Silent Swordsman
LIGHT Warrior ★4
ATK 1000 / DEF 1000
Swordbound Silence [UR]
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned (from your hand) by Tributing 1 Warrior-Type monster, and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Once per turn, during the Standby Phase: This card gains 500 ATK. Once per turn, during either player's turn, when a Spell Card is activated: You can negate the activation. If this card is destroyed by battle, or if this card in its owner's control is destroyed by an opponent's card effect: You can Special Summon 1 "Silent Swordsman" monster from your hand or Deck, except "Silent Swordsman", ignoring its Summoning conditions.

You can Special Summon Silent Swordsman by tributing Gouki monsters, while also triggering the tributed Gouki's search effect. The inherent ATK gain is pretty slow but it helps. You will want to use Silent Sword Slash, to quickly make Silent Swordsman a more formidable beater on the field.

The Spell card negation will mostly be used to negate Invocation, Neos Fusion, Mask Change, and other fusion spells so your opponent can't get their boss monsters out. It can also negate Enemy Controller, Dark Magical Circle and other Spells that disrupt your board.

Watch out for Samurai Destroyer, Blue-Eyes Spirit Dragon, and other cards that can negate Silent Swordsman's floating effect.

Silent Swordsman LV7
Silent Swordsman LV7
LIGHT Warrior ★7
ATK 2800 / DEF 1000
Crusaders Battleground [UR]
Cannot be Normal Summoned/Set. Must be Special Summoned by "Silent Swordsman LV5", and cannot be Special Summoned by other ways. Negate all Spell effects on the field.

The non-LV Silent Swordsman can float into Silent Swordsman LV7 when it is destroyed. This is useful in cases where you don't have Silent Sword Slash, so you can crash Silent Swordsman into an opponent's monster to get a powerful beater onboard. Silent Swordsman LV7 has a more oppressive version of Silent Swordman's effect, entirely negating all Spell cards put on the field. This is why we use minimal Spells in this deck, excluding Silent Sword Slash which is immune to negation.

Silent Sword Slash

Silent Sword Slash
Silent Sword Slash
Quick Spell
Crusaders Battleground [R]
Swordbound Silence [R]
Target 1 "Silent Swordsman" monster you control; that target gains 1500 ATK and DEF, and if it does, it is unaffected by your opponent's card effects until the end of this turn. This card's activation and effect cannot be negated. You can banish this card from your Graveyard; add 1 "Silent Swordsman" monster from your Deck to your hand.

This is the “Silent Swordsman” version of Silent Burning, it’s much easier to activate compared to its counterpart and has an arguably better effect. This Quick-Play Spell permanently increases the ATK and DEF of a “Silent Swordsman” monster you control by 1500, and the best part is it makes that monster immune to all your opponent's effects until the end of the turn. Sphere Kuriboh, Drowning Mirror Force and other battle traps won’t be able to stop your monster, and you can even activate this card in response to them for protection. The immunity to negation is there so that Silent Swordsman LV7 does not shutdown his own support, but also prevents your opponent from negating this card.

Lastly, you can banish this card from the graveyard to search Silent Swordsman. You can send Silent Sword Slash to the graveyard as cost for something like Karma Cut, then banish it to get your base Silent Swordsman.

Arcana Knights Engine

Arcana Triumph Joker
Arcana Triumph Joker
LIGHT Warrior ★10
ATK ? / DEF 2500
Imperial Joker [UR]
If this card is in your hand or GY: You can send 1 "Queen's Knight", "King's Knight", and "Jack's Knight" from your hand and/or face-up Monster Zone to the GY; Special Summon this card. This card gains 500 ATK x the combined number of cards in both players' hands. You can discard 1 card; destroy all face-up cards your opponent controls with the same type (Monster, Spell, or Trap) as the discarded card.
Imperial Bower
Imperial Bower
LIGHT Warrior ★4
ATK 1500 / DEF 1500
Imperial Joker [SR]
If you control no other monsters: You can Tribute this card; take 2 different monsters from your Deck among "Queen's Knight", "King's Knight", and/or "Jack's Knight", and either add to your hand or Special Summon each monster. You can only use this effect of "Imperial Bower" once per turn.
Kings Knight
Kings Knight
LIGHT Warrior ★4
ATK 1600 / DEF 1400
Generation Next [R]
Imperial Joker [R]
When this card is Normal Summoned while you control "Queen's Knight": You can Special Summon 1 "Jack's Knight" from your Deck.
Queens Knight
Queens Knight
LIGHT Warrior ★4
ATK 1500 / DEF 1600
Generation Next [N]
Imperial Joker [N]
This knight catches her opponents off guard, dominating them with swift yet graceful attacks.
Jokers Straight
Jokers Straight
Normal Spell
Imperial Joker [SR]
Discard 1 card, Special Summon 1 "Queen's Knight" from your Deck, add 1 "King's Knight" or "Jack's Knight" from your Deck to your hand, then, immediately after this effect resolves, you can Normal Summon 1 monster. You cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck for the rest of this turn, except LIGHT Warrior monsters. During the End Phase, if this card is in your GY: You can target 1 LIGHT Warrior monster in your GY; shuffle it into the Deck, and if you do, add this card to your hand. You can only use each effect of "Joker's Straight" once per turn.

Tech Choices

Reinforcement of the Army
Reinforcement of the Army
Normal Spell
Starter/Special Set Bundle Sale [UR]
Add 1 Level 4 or lower Warrior monster from your Deck to your hand.
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Compulsory Evacuation Device
Normal Trap
Selection Box Vol.04 Mini [UR]
Target 1 monster on the field; return that target to the hand.
Expendable Dai
Expendable Dai
Normal Trap
Future Circuit [SR]
Tribute 1 Warrior monster, then target 1 card on the field; destroy it, and if you do, draw 1 card.
Karma Cut
Karma Cut
Normal Trap
Selection Box Vol. 02 Mini [SR]
Discard 1 card, then target 1 face-up monster your opponent controls; banish that target, then banish all cards with the same name as that monster from your opponent's Graveyard.

Karma Cut is a good removal card while also providing some graveyard disruption. Discounting Shiranui, not many decks can interact with their banish zone so a boss monster banished by Karma Cut would be devastating to the opponent. The discard cost can be used to put Silent Sword Slash in your graveyard and use it to search Silent Swordsman.

Additional Notes

  • The chance of drawing Silent Swordsman as your only monster without anything to Tribute for it is not that high, but it should still be pointed out that certain combinations of cards can leave you without any play and completely open.
  • The ATK boost from Silent Swordsman’s effect and from Silent Sword Slash can be nullified by flipping it face-down. This also turns off the mass negation of Silent Swordsman LV7. You can still chain Silent Sword Slash to a Floodgate Trap Hole, but you are not always going to have one available.

Comments

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Anonymous
I run silent swordsman with my amazoness deck and it works pretty well
<< Anonymous
Heaven Reply
Can you mention your cards? I wanna try build it
<< Anonymous(Heaven)
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Anonymous
I run silent swordsman with my amazoness deck and it works pretty well
GhostBird
Im received 7500 damage direct attack from Silent Swordsman, 2 second later this guy surrender. Pathetic HAHAHAHA GG

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Yami Aster
What about a vision hero version of this now? Just to try it at least.
<< Anonymous(Yami Aster)
Anonymous Reply
Build one on your own and present it here or submit it to GameA. I'm sure that they will share it if it's decent.
<< Anonymous
Yami Aster Reply
Ok. I wasn't going to build one, but I got some ideas now.
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Anonymous
Still competitive even with only 2 silent sword slash allowed.
Broly
It probably wouldnt be a good idea but could you not run dna surgery to summon this guy?
Evil Wolf
I just ran into this sadly my 1st hand was 3 trap cards and a level 5 monster so I couldn't play my 1st hand. on his 1st turn he got the monster upto 4200 attack points and killed me in 1 move.
<< Anonymous(Evil Wolf)
Anonymous Reply
Use roll'n'boost man
SUPER EFFECTIVE
Anonymous
It seems like in fact some dudes feel INADEQUATE in front of this deck.

100% cringe lol
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
what's really funny is that this version of the deck is the outdated one
Learning
I've tried a noble knights strat w/ss. Bricks 46%of the time but it's given me the highest rank gain I've seen
<< Anonymous(Learning)
Anonymous Reply
because those are different archetypes lolz
<< Anonymous(Learning)
Anonymous Reply
I think they shouldn't be played together?, maybe just 1 lvl 5 copy of swordsman could work.
Anonymous
With the Transcendent Crystals build, one can more easily get away with running two Silent Swordsmen instead of the standard three and therefore bricking less. Using a slash at the beginning of the duel if you do not start with Swordsman is not the end of the world. The deck thins itself out and you can stall until you draw the second one. Absolute Crusader, Shield Warrior, and Decider are all great tech for those who don’t have three assailants. After today’s release of the Ancient Gear deck, Assailants will not be quite as good as before.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
*Discarding a slash for its search effect is what I meant by “using.”
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
hmmm
Anonymous
I thought with LV7's effect of negating all spell cards, silent sword slash shouldn't be able to work since it's a spell card?!
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
Silent Sword Slash (and Silent Burning) cannot be negated.
<< Anonymous
Anonymous Reply
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