Resonator Deck #762718 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 56/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Synchro
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 60 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beats from the Extra Deck: Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul (3500 ATK), Chaos Angel (3500), Bystial Dis Pater (3500), Storm-Bane Dragon Destorbim (3000), The Crimson King (3000), Red Dragon Archfiend (3000).; Albion the Branded Dragon fusion pressure, supported by Fallen of the White Dragon and The Fallen & The Virtuous (Inferred from card text; not an engine the deck is built around).
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on Soul Resonator / Vision Resonator / Bone Archfiend / Mulcharmy bodies, use Resonator Call or Crimson Gaia to search a Resonator or Red Dragon Archfiend-linked monster, and Synchro Summon into a 3000+ ATK boss (Inferred from text and hypergeometric odds).
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird x2, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence, Maxx C, Nibiru, and others) to break the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a Synchro board from the GY through Red Rising Dragon and Resonator recursion (Inferred).
• Recovery: Searchers (23 copies of searcher text) and GY recursion (Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Red Rising Dragon) rebuild a starter after a disruption; the deck has no single choke point in its searcher set (Inferred).
• After siding: Not applicable: the deck runs 0 side cards in a Bo1 format; no post-side plan exists in the evidence.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reasonably often: the 3-copy starters and 23 searcher-text cards give P(at least one searcher in a 5-card opening hand) of about 0.92 and P(at least one archetype-core card) of about 0.88 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Its ceiling is high because the Extra Deck holds several 3000+ ATK Synchro bosses with board-clearing or negation text, and interaction density is strong with 9 hand traps and 14 removal-text cards. Its median is not measurable because no combo boards were supplied, so the floor is scored conservatively. Points are held back by low archetype purity (17.3% exact Resonator; 62 off-archetype copies), a 0-card side deck, and extra-deck summon restrictions that conflict with the Albion/Branded fusion line. The score comes from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system; it is not a sum of card scores, and the Resonator popularity in the usage data did not earn points by itself.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and weights renormalised to 97, meta-neutral). Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Engine conflict (-3); Engine compactness (-2); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; Structural 64.0 with D13 renormalised; 0.80*64.0 + 0.20*56 = 62.4; modifiers -6 gives 56.4, rounded to 56)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Dense Synchro boss suite (3000-3500 ATK) with negate/banish/destroy text.
• Nine hand traps and 14 removal-text cards give layered interaction.
• High searcher density (23 copies of searcher text) and GY recursion for rebuilding.
• Legal in Master Duel with no copy-limit violations.

Weaknesses

• Low archetype purity: 62 off-archetype copies and only 13 exact-name Resonator cards.
• Over-run non-engine cards: Bone Archfiend x3 and Power Vice Dragon x3 against typical usage of 1.
• Engine conflict between the Albion/Branded fusion sub-plan and the Synchro core, through Extra-Deck summon restrictions.
• No side deck, so no adaptability; no combo or tournament evidence to confirm the median output.

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend line depends on a Resonator Tuner and specific GY/Extra-Deck resources; loss of the core Tuners removes most Synchro access (Inferred).
• Limited-status Maxx C and Crossout Designator and Bystial Magnamhut are single-copy; restrictions reduce interaction depth (Verified banlist field).

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal in master-duel: 60 main (40-60), 15 extra (0-15), 0 side; all Limited/Semi-Limited copy counts within legal limits.; Copy histogram 1:21, 2:3, 3:11; 13 Synchro and 2 Fusion in the Extra Deck.; Exact Resonator purity 17.3%; 62 off-archetype copies.; Usage stats: Bone Archfiend and Power Vice Dragon run 3 copies vs typical 1.
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in hand5) ~0.92 and P(>=1 archetype-core in hand5) ~0.88.; Hand-trap coverage ~0.64 in a 6-card going-second hand.; Ceiling read from 3000-3500 ATK boss text; floor and median not measured.
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit (dropped from Structural).; Side-deck adaptability (D12) is not applicable in Bo1 Master Duel.
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN: going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied usage_statistics in_this_deck flags disagree with the card list: The Crimson King (67809530), Red Rising Dragon (66141736), Red Dragon Archfiend (70902743) and Scarred Dragon Archfiend (87451661) are in the Extra Deck but marked in_this_deck=false, so core_present_pct (36%) is likely understated; flag likely a Main-Deck-only match usage_statistics lists Red Nova Dragon (97489701), while the deck runs Red Nova Dragon - Burning Soul (65541655); these may be different cards, so core matching is unverified