LIGHT
1Barrier Resonator
Archetype:
Resonator
ATK:
300
DEF:
800
View:
3758
During either player's turn: You can send this card from your hand to the Graveyard, then target 1 Tuner monster you control; this turn, it cannot be destroyed by battle, also you take no battle damage from attacks involving it.
Barrier Resonator — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 55 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 57 · Deck: 53 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Material body · Secondary: Utility
Why it scores here
Barrier Resonator's value is its body: a Level 1 LIGHT Fiend Tuner that is a clean, generic Tuner and Synchro material, and a single-copy slot that fits into 19 archetypes. Its effect is narrow and cost-heavy: it sends the card from hand to the Graveyard to make one Tuner unable to be destroyed by battle and to negate battle damage for one turn. No combo evidence shows it building a board or gaining card advantage, so the 300 ATK / 800 DEF and the protection effect earn little on their own, and the score rests on Tuner utility and deck cost.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 60 | Normal-summonable at Level 1 and present in 71 sampled decks, but no searcher or combo-starter data shows a reliable route into the opening hand (observed/inferred). |
| Combo & Conversion | 25 | Its effect protects a Tuner for one turn and adds no board presence or summon; with no recorded combos, conversion is text-only inference (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 20 | Hand-to-GY cost with no draw, search, or recursion is a pure -1 for the card's own effect (verified from text). |
| Effect & Interaction | 15 | Battle protection and battle-damage negation for one of the player's own Tuners, not opponent interaction (verified from text). |
| Material Utility | 70 | Level 1 LIGHT Fiend Tuner is a clean Synchro material and fits many Tuner-based lines; the body converts even though the effect is hand-cost only (verified from text and deck sample). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 40 | The effect only works from hand and is limited to one Tuner per turn, so it is dead once used; the body alone gives some flexibility across zones (inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 75 | Single-copy generic Tuner with avg 1.13 copies per deck and no garnet or lock; cheap and splashable (observed from deck sample). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Material body + 0.3 Utility. Intrinsic ≈ 57, Deck ≈ 53, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Generic Level 1 LIGHT Fiend Tuner with clean Synchro material value
- Present in 71 sampled decks spanning 19 archetypes
- Cheap, single-copy deck slot with no garnet or lock cost
- Battle protection for a Tuner on the player's own turn
Weaknesses
- Hand-cost effect with no board presence or card advantage
- Protection is one Tuner for one turn, a narrow effect
- No recorded combos to show conversion into a winning board
- Dead once its effect is used
Counters / choke points
- Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (inferred: a hand-activated effect that sends the card to the GY as cost is a typical target for hand-effect negation)
Best use
Generic Tuner body with one-turn battle protection. Decks: Resonator, Archfiend, Blue-Eyes, Fiendsmith. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Level 1 LIGHT Fiend Tuner, 300 ATK / 800 DEF, Resonator archetype (card text); Hand-to-GY cost; targets one Tuner you control; that Tuner cannot be destroyed by battle and you take no battle damage from attacks involving it this turn (card text); Present in 71 sampled decks across 19 archetypes; avg 1.13 copies, 62 decks at 1 copy and 9 at 2 (deck evidence)
- Observed: Resonator Call co-occurs in 62% of sampled decks; Red Dragon Archfiend 60.6%; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 56.3% (deck evidence); Gameplay distribution: 66.2% type 7, 22.5% type 4, 11.3% type 6 (deck evidence)
- Inferred: Card's effect does not contribute to a summon or board; its value is as a Tuner body (inferred from text); Hand-to-GY cost makes it a plausible target for hand-effect negation (inferred from text, not from a recorded counter)
- Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo conversion is text-only inference no guides supplied no usage statistics (StatisticsCard): inclusion % inferred from the 71-deck sample only no banlist token: assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no legal_copies data per format no rulings supplied for interactions with its own protection timing