Resonator Deck #769087 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend / Red Nova / Red Supernova style Dragons off Resonator tuners and Crimson Gaia / Crimson Call searches; Bystial Dis Pater / The Crimson King board presence via Synchro Zone and Red Zone
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Resonator tuner, search a second Resonator or Fiend, and Synchro into a 3000+ ATK Dragon (Inferred from text; no combo data)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Ghost Belle and Ghost Mourner for hand-trap interruption, then convert the surviving tuner into a Synchro (Inferred)
• Recovery: Crimson Call and Resonator Call re-search a Level 4 or lower Fiend or Resonator; Red Rising Dragon and Crimson King can re-summon from the GY (Inferred)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan; the deck cannot adapt between games

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in OCG because it runs 3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2, so it receives the capped, theoretical-only score under the rubric's legality rule. Structurally the list is coherent around the Resonator tuner and Red Dragon Archfiend Synchro package: the core Resonator tuners and Archfiend-family Synchros are present at high inclusion, and the 15-card Extra Deck is entirely Synchro, which keeps the engine conversion simple. The score reflects consistency and closing power on the system: the archetype core is reached in about 96% of 5-card openings (Inferred), and the Dragon Synchros reach 3000 to 4000 ATK. No combo boards were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference and are not separately measured. The deck has 7 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards, but these are not credited as performance; the 55 off-archetype copies and the empty side deck keep the score down. Popularity and archetype usage were not used to raise the score, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-10); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53, then -12 modifiers (legality/banlist -10, no side deck -2) = 41, then capped to 35 as theoretical-only because the deck is Illegal (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype core reaches 96% of 5-card openings (Inferred)
• Single-type Synchro Extra Deck of 15 with multiple 3500+ ATK Dragons
• Layered hand-trap and negation text (7 hand traps, 15 negation-text cards)
• Multiple search and recursion routes for the Resonator engine

Weaknesses

• Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceeds the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• Empty side deck, so no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (23.6% exact name), with many off-archetype generic cards
• No combo or win-rate data to confirm the engine converts reliably

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring must be reduced to 2 copies before the list is legal
• A Level 3 or 4 Tuner in hand is needed to start most Synchro lines
• Several Limited 1-copy cards (Solemn Judgment, Droll, Foolish Burial, Lubellion) are single points of failure

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal due to Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs limit 2 (OCG Semi-Limited); Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts and size rules; Card text and stats for the listed cards; Archetype core inclusion and hypergeometric draw odds
• Observed: Usage statistics: Resonator core cards have 55 to 92% inclusion across 36 deck variants
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick estimates from draw odds and text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text; Interaction and resilience reads from text role hints
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record are absent no win-rate telemetry in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates) no side deck registered, so post-side evaluation is absent Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied