Resonator Deck #769942 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 20/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Red Dragon Archfiend and Synchro boards (Crimson King, Bystial, Archfiend monsters) reached through Resonator and Archfiend starters (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards); Bystial Synchro boards using banish-revive effects (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Turn 1 Normal Summon of a Tuner (Soul Resonator, Chain Resonator or Ghost Belle) into a Synchro follow-up, with Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence held for interaction (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Ghost Ogre, Droll & Lock Bird, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first summon, then engine recovery through Resonator searches (Inferred)
• Recovery: Resonator monsters that return themselves from GY to hand (Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator) and Crimson Gaia searches (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: side deck is empty (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The score is capped because the list is illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run three times against a limit of two, and Triple Tactics Talent is a Forbidden card. The deck's core Resonator and Archfiend starters are present in about 97% of opening hands by a hypergeometric proxy, so the engine can usually start, but this is Inferred and not a recorded result. Its interaction suite (10 hand traps and 15 negation-text cards) gives it real disruption on paper, but there is no recorded board data, so conversion and median output are text-only estimates. The main deck spreads across many off-archetype Tuners and 0-level spells (13.9% exact-name purity), and the empty side deck leaves no post-side plan. Popularity and archetype usage were not used as points, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 48, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 45, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-12); illegal_list_cap (-26). Final formula: Illegal cap applied: structural-only estimate ≈ 46 (0.80*48 + 0.20*40) with banlist/copy-limit modifier -12; final score capped at 20 for an Illegal list (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · 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

• Archetype core is dense: 28 copies give about 97% opening-hand access (Inferred)
• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps plus 15 negation-text cards (Inferred)
• Several 3000+ ATK Synchro bosses with Resonator recursion (Verified stats)

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom is at 3 copies (limit 2) and Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden (Verified)
• Low exact-name purity (13.9%) and many off-archetype Tuners dilute the engine (Verified composition)
• No side deck, so no post-side plan (Verified)
• No recorded combo or win data to validate the conversion ceiling (Verified gap)

Critical choke points

• Tuner availability: most Synchro lines need a specific Tuner from a mixed pool of 14
• Ash Blossom and the hand-trap suite are the only early interaction; loss of one leaves the deck open

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom over copy limit (3 vs 2); Triple Tactics Talent is Forbidden; Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 sizes; Card stats and archetype tags from the resolved card list
• Inferred: Opening-hand access to the archetype core (about 0.97 with proxy); Interaction density from hand-trap and negation text; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and tournament reliability (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: Deck title is null No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck is empty, so post-side behaviour cannot be evaluated