This is supposed to be a very loose introduction, not a comprehensive guide, and honestly not enough people are talking about this deck. Let me know how you are building the deck. There are so many different options that I wanna hear from you all.

This deck seems interesting. Looks like it really pops off when it does get to play! I just played against Lightsworn Runick earlier. The new Cards seem like they are really what the deck needed. That Minerva synchro seems really good! For context was testing vs a friend on EDOpro. Lightsworn is his favorite deck. It is lowkey terrifying that the deck ends on really consistent boards by just seeing any way to dragonling + any Runick spell. He also uses the Heaven Dragons in his build which while being bricks they are good discards off Hugin and Punishment dragon specifically is a surprisingly great interruption on the opponent’s turn.

Very nice, good to spread the news about Tear! Like your Lightsworns, would only play 2 Dragonling if you arent running punishment, since its a worse mill in that case. Good Tear ratios as well, not falling into Scream Reino x3 trap and knowing that Metanois is a card - good good Not going for Trivikarma is an interesting take, not unreasonable, but I like Foolish Goods into planet a lot... Foolish Burial without Millers has been cut by me, never really feel its good enough, sure mill 2 with Tear Kash or set up for this or that is nice - idk tho. the nice too have vs 1 more bad mill is not convincing me 100% (may have to look at this again tho). About the Dangers, why not 2 Nessi? Nessi is the best, then potentially Mothman or Jacko; the part about more Darks sure is cool - but Nessi is also an Aqua, something we need for Kalaido. Based Nightsword Serpent Enjoyer - and 2 Beastkings - bro knows whats good - nothing to add, you know you are correct. Correct Toad is now key, but we can make a spell trap negate very easily... not with the one random Destrudo... but with Felis and Weiss to go into Dragite. If you play more tuners for Lvl 7 - like a idk 2 Destrudo 1 Revolution - then sure go AfD and F.A. - but since the Lightsworns are a Level 4 Syncro engine, making a Lvl 8 SpellTrap Negate is just natural. You can use the lightsworns for your regular plays and then bring them back with Cross Sheep for example, or go Weiss Wulf with Dragonling (in that case you need 2 Felis...). Just what I found to work pretty well; you play 3 Talents and keep it at 40 - okay comendable and maybe the best "competetive" way to go about it. In a more greedy world - or how ever you want to call it - go to 48 cards - add 3 Mali and the mini 5 card Horus pack - 4 Bricks and 4 "hand cleaners" so it doesnt make the hands that much worse, but gives you more avenues to play and with Mali at 3 we better abuse it - also gives you more Darks ^^ Personally, with 3-4 Lightsworn bricks, id already considered the Horus cards to have a higher "hand card efficiency" but with 3 mali it just works - makes it way easier to have cards lying around for Apo and other Link plays, to have the good lvl 4 for XYZ or Synchros. Anyway thats a text wall - hope you have good mills ^^

maybe a dumb question, but any reason to run beastking over king of the swamp? the only thing I could see coming is the levels for synchro/xyz plays, but idk

I feel this deck is great at milling but when you pass your turn I often find myself wondering ... "this is the end board"?

Do the lightsworns & Tearlaments get their effects if sent to the graveyard by Charge of the light brigade & by Solar recharge?

With the new support and a heavy lightsworn build I can triple JD 1st turn almost every time.

Play Punishment Dragon. Its makes mudragon with any tear. Its great disruption against decks that have setup graves, PD puts all the gas and KakleodoHeart back into your deck/extra. The visas Synchro main job is to find the Sulek not the field spell. (Use power tool synchron to make fairy dragon, and nat beast)

I have been testing alot of tear builds recently from paleo to horus and I just don't think this is it chief. Having to make 2 syncros to get a field spell is kinda trash. The horus cards make vampire just fine and can break boards on their own. Adding spell and traps seems good but I have never had much trouble getting to planet or a sulliek with normal mills/fool goods etc. Charge milling for cost and not activating mills sounds really awful. I didn't see malicious in your list but it going back to 3 has made a huge difference and to replace a good card with bricks like wulf and felis just hurts. I love your content man and it sounds like I'm just shitting on you so apologies but I think the lightsworn stuff is very gimmicky but maybe I'll be proven wrong in events to come.