Resonator Deck #412795 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 33/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Synchro
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 10 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro boss (Majestic Red Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Chaos King Archfiend) converting board pressure into attacks through a Tuner-plus-non-Tuner Synchro line.; Piercing and direct damage from Strong Wind Dragon and Lancer Archfiend once the opponent's defence is cleared.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Level 1 or Level 3 Tuner (Dark Resonator, Creation Resonator, Sinister Sprocket or Attack Gainer) plus a Level 4 or Level 5 body, then Synchro Summon an Extra Deck boss.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Battle Fader or Mirror Force against the opponent's attack and use Torrential Tribute or Heavy Storm to clear the board before summoning a boss.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard with Dark Bug, Revival Gift or Call of the Haunted, since Resonator-specific recursion is thin and the deck has no archetype core.
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the list cannot adapt between games.

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system: a Resonator-themed Synchro list in which only 3 of 40 Main Deck cards carry the exact Resonator name, with 35 generic cards and 9 Archfiend cards alongside them. Starter access is thin, since the single-copy Resonator Tuners reach a 12.5% chance of appearing in the opening 5 and the Dark Bug and Dragon engines reach about 24%. Interaction is the deck's strongest area: 14 removal-text cards and 4 negation-text cards, including Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute, Heavy Storm and Swords of Revealing Light, give it layered answers. The Extra Deck boss package has real closing power, led by Majestic Red Dragon at 4000 ATK with a negation effect. The score is capped low because the list contains one Forbidden Giant Trunade, which makes it illegal in Master Duel. No recorded boards, win rates or dated meta exist, and the popularity of the Resonator theme was not treated as evidence of strength. No card scores were averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 44, Going First ≈ 40, Going Second ≈ 46, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (Forbidden card in list) (-10). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers; illegal-deck cap applied (theoretical/structural only)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.13 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered interaction: 14 removal-text and 4 negation-text cards plus 3 hand traps
• High-impact Extra Deck boss package, including Majestic Red Dragon at 4000 ATK with a negation effect
• Broad going-second answers: Mirror Force, Torrential Tribute and Battle Fader

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: Giant Trunade is Forbidden
• Thin archetype core: only 3 exact-name Resonator copies and no usage-stat core present
• Single-copy starters give a 12.5% chance of appearing in the opening 5
• No side deck, so no adaptation between games

Critical choke points

• Every Synchro line needs a Level 1 or Level 3 Tuner from hand or field, and single-copy Tuners make that line fragile
• No recovery route for a board wiped by Torrential Tribute or Heavy Storm

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Giant Trunade is Forbidden and over the copy limit (Illegal); Main 40 and Extra 10 are within the Master Duel size rules; Majestic Red Dragon is 4000 ATK with a negation effect; Only 3 exact-name Resonator copies; 47 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Starter-access and brick estimates from hypergeometric odds; Interaction quality from removal and negation text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated sample); Matchup and format fit (D13 neutral)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry; going-first, going-second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck registered; post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied