Resonator Deck #770041 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox, Synchro
• Format: ocg

Legality

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

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon Red Dragon Archfiend and related Dragon Synchro boards (Red Nova, Red Hypernova, Bystial Dis Pater, The Crimson King) and attack through a thin defense; Light and Darkness Ritual subsystem: Black Chaos and Black Luster Soldier ritual pressure
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a starter (Soul Resonator, Bone Archfiend, Power Vice Dragon, Darkness Resonator) and extend into a Tuner plus non-Tuner Synchro with the Extra Deck Dragon, while holding Ash Blossom or Droll and Lock Bird for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, and Dominus Impulse for the opponent's first summon or search, then use the surviving starter to reach a Synchro board
• Recovery: Recover through Synkron Resonator, Crimson Call and Vision Resonator from the GY, plus Pot of Sloth and Pot of Prosperity draws
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; the deck plays the same 60 and 15 every game

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a connected Synchro system, not as an average of its 33 main-deck and 14 extra-deck distinct cards. Its starter density is strong: the archetype core of 24 copies has an estimated 93 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and 18 searcher-text cards give about 84 percent (Inferred from the hypergeometric table). Interaction is layered across four hand traps, three Solemn Accusation, Dominus Impulse, Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains and single-copy Appointer, Droll, Maxx C and King's Resonance, so the deck can answer both turn-one plays and a second-turn board. Its closing power comes from Synchro Extra Deck bodies with 3000 to 4500 ATK, which is why the offensive score is high. The score is held back by three competing engines (Resonator and Red Dragon Archfiend, Light and Darkness Ritual, and Mulcharmy draw), a 12 percent exact-name archetype purity, no side deck, and no recorded boards to confirm a median output. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited as power.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.85 Combo / 0.15 Midrange (secondary Midrange weights were not applied; Combo profile used as shipped). Structural ≈ 65.5, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: engine conflicts (-3); weak post-side plan (-2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-6)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.93 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense starter and searcher coverage gives high odds of a live engine on turns 1 and 2
• Layered interaction: four hand traps, three Solemn Accusation, Dominus Impulse, Red Dragon Archfiend's Chains
• High-ATK Synchro Extra Deck closers with 15 of 15 Extra slots used
• Synchro-heavy Extra Deck is coherent around Dragon Synchro and Red Dragon Archfiend

Weaknesses

• Three competing engines dilute the core: exact Resonator purity is only 12 percent
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation for best-of-3
• Gozen Match is a self-harming floodgate in a deck that runs many monsters
• Pot of Sloth scales off the opponent's field and is weak in the early game
• High pilot demand from multiple engines and Extra Deck sequencing

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend and Dragon Synchro access depends on Tuners from the hand; a hand with only Ritual or Mulcharmy cards bricks
• Limited single copies (Maxx C, Droll and Lock Bird, Foolish Burial, Pot of Prosperity) cannot be replaced if they are removed

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal status under OCG limits; main 60, extra 15, side 0; Restricted copy counts within legal limits for all 8 restricted cards; Stats and card text for all 40 distinct cards, including Extra Deck ATK values; Archetype core and searcher counts from the composition block
• Observed: Usage statistics show Crimson King, Bystial Dis Pater and Soul Resonator as high-inclusion core cards in this archetype (28 rows)
• Inferred: Starter probabilities 0.93 and 0.84 and hand-trap probability 0.35 from hypergeometric estimates; Brick proxy about 0.07; Ceiling and interaction scores from text reads; Engine conflict modifier and going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 format fit, because no dated metagame sample exists
• Data gaps: 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 or matchup telemetry in YGOVN Meta Power provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side plan cannot be checked