Resonator Deck #768449 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 58/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Combo (Synchro mechanic)
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Red Dragon Archfiend, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss and Red Supernova Dragon attacking through a Synchro board, with Red Dragon Archfiend's destroy-Defense-Position effect for board breaking.; Red Nova Dragon and Crimson Dragon Quetzalcoatl as extra-deck pressure once a Resonator Tuner and Synchro base is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Soul Resonator or Crimson Gaia (both 3 copies) fetches a Red Dragon Archfiend enabler, Resonator bodies build a Tuner + non-Tuner Synchro base, and the Extra Deck follows.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold the 9 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Effect Veiler, Ghost Belle, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Dominus Impulse, Chains) to stop the opponent's first summon, then rebuild a Synchro through the Resonator GY/hand searches.
• Recovery: Synkron Resonator and Vision Resonator send Resonators back to hand from the GY, and Crimson Call and Bone Archfiend re-add Fiends and extend, so the engine can reload after a hand trap or negate.
• After siding: No side deck is registered (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan to evaluate.

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a Synchro base: 15 Tuner monsters and a 3-copy Soul Resonator or Crimson Gaia give a live starter in roughly a third of opening hands, while the searcher text (16 cards) is almost always reachable. Its interaction layer is the strongest part of the system: 9 hand traps and 11 negation-text cards let it survive a first summon or a single negate, then rebuild through Resonator recursion. Its ceiling comes from the Red Dragon Archfiend and Red Supernova lines, but no recorded boards exist, so the floor and median are text-based inference and the score is not an average of card scores. Popularity of the Resonator archetype confirms that the list is real and accessible, and it earned no points by itself. The score is held down by an empty side deck, 23.6% exact-name purity across Resonator, Archfiend, Bystial and Dominus pieces, and a lack of matchup or win-rate evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 65, Going First ≈ 68, Going Second ≈ 70, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 61. Modifiers: Empty side deck (-3); Banlist exposure (-2); Engine conflicts (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional; no dated metagame sample)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Nine hand traps and eleven negation-text cards give layered interaction on both turns.
• Soul Resonator and Crimson Gaia (3 copies each) plus a 16-card searcher group give a high chance of finding a starter.
• Strong Synchro extra deck (Red Supernova 4000 ATK, Hot RDA Abyss 3200, Red Nova 3500) with two copies of each engine.

Weaknesses

• No side deck, so no best-of-3 adaptation.
• Exact-name archetype purity is 23.6%, so the engine splits across Resonator, Archfiend, Bystial and Dominus.
• No combo or board evidence, so the floor, median and ceiling are inferred from text.

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend or a Synchro base is required for most conversions; if the Tuner plus non-Tuner base is negated, the single-copy Extra Deck slots limit recovery.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 40 and Extra Deck 15 sizes are legal for OCG.; All six restricted cards are within legal copies.; Copy counts, card stats and the 15-card Synchro breakdown come from the export.; Hypergeometric draw probabilities recompute from the 40-card list.
• Inferred: Synchro starter access and bootstrap (D1).; Hand-trap and negation interaction quality (D5, D7).; Extra Deck ceiling from card text (D3, D9).; Going-second hand-trap plan (D8).
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample).; Matchup coverage (D13).
• 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 are absent. usage_statistics.missing_core and in_this_deck flags are inconsistent with the card list. Red Dragon Archfiend, Red Supernova Dragon, Hot RDA Abyss, Crimson Blade Dragon, The Crimson King, Bystial Dis Pater and Zalen are listed as absent, yet they appear in the Extra Deck, so core_present_pct (60%) was not used. No win-rate telemetry exists (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates). Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed.