Resonator Deck #768198 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Toolbox
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon a DARK Dragon Synchro (Red Supernova Dragon, Red Nova Dragon, Red Dragon Archfiend, Red Hypernova Dragon or Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss) from a Resonator-based Tuner and non-Tuner engine, then attack through the board; Resonator recursion from GY (Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Red Rising Dragon) rebuilding a Synchro board after interaction
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon a Tuner (Soul Resonator, Effect Veiler or Crimson Resonator), search with Resonator Call or Crimson Gaia, then Synchro Summon into a Red Rising Dragon or a Dragon Synchro
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Infinite Impermanence, Evenly Matched, Effect Veiler, Mulcharmy draw effects) to blank the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a Synchro board from the GY and Deck
• Recovery: Use GY-triggered Resonators (Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator, Soul Resonator) and Red Rising Dragon's GY revival to re-establish a Tuner and a Synchro after the board is cleared
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck has no sideboard slots to adapt

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Synchro plan on the system level: 25 archetype-core copies give about 94 percent odds of at least one in a 5-card opening hand, and 19 searchers give about 86 percent, so the Resonator engine is accessible but not guaranteed on any single starter, since each 3-copy starter sits at about 23 percent. It converts that plan into pressure through 13 Synchro-capable Extra Deck monsters with 3000 to 4500 ATK and a Synchro-heavy end board, which earns the closing and ceiling reads, but no combo replays were supplied, so the ceiling and median stay text-only inference. Interaction is the strongest part of the system: 9 hand traps, 13 negation-text cards and 17 removal-text cards let it survive a first-turn interruption, and GY recursion from Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator and Red Rising Dragon keeps a second line available. The score is held down by the absence of a side deck, the sub-archetype spread (only about 19 percent exact Resonator name purity), and three engine conflicts; popularity and archetype usage stats confirm the list is real and accessible but did not add points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.80 Combo + 0.20 Stun. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-3); Weak or absent post-side plan (-4); Banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.94 · 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

• Broad, layered interaction: 9 hand traps, 13 negation-text and 17 removal-text cards
• Redundant Resonator engine with 19 searchers and 25 core copies
• Strong Synchro ceiling with 3000 to 4500 ATK bosses
• GY recursion keeps a second line alive after a clear

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no post-side adaptability
• Exact Resonator name purity is only 18.7 percent; many generic or off-engine staples
• Several conflicting cards (Dimensional Fissure, Deck Lockdown) work against the deck's own recursion and summons
• No recorded combos, so median output is unknown

Critical choke points

• A single Tuner plus non-Tuner pair is needed for almost every Synchro, so losing the Tuner to hand traps or a board wipe stalls the engine
• Going second, the opponent's first summon is the main choke point; a hand trap has about a 64 percent chance to be in the opening six

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal OCG list: 60 main, 15 extra, 0 side; Three Limited cards at one copy each (Magnamhut, Lubellion, Foolish Burial); Exact Resonator name purity 18.7 percent; Usage stats: Soul Resonator, Crimson Gaia, Power Vice Dragon and Bone Archfiend are core in about 79 to 90 percent of lists
• Inferred: Core-group opening odds 0.94 and searcher-group 0.86 (hypergeometric); Hand-trap odds 0.64 going second; Interaction breadth from card text; Pilot difficulty and median output
• Provisional: Meta share and matchup fit (no dated meta sample)
• 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/second, matchup, brick and starter rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null, so the list is identified only by its archetype and ID