Resonator Deck #771821 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 41/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro pressure from Red Dragon Archfiend-named monsters (Red Dragon Archfiend, Scarred Dragon Archfiend, Crimson King) and Bystial/Hot Red Dragon Archfiend extra-deck boards; Red Supernova Dragon and Bystial Dis Pater as late-game boards; Crimson Gaia and Crimson Call as recursion-driven follow-up
• Turn 1 (going first): Resonator search and Synchro starter (Soul Resonator, Vision Resonator, Power Vice Dragon) into a Synchro Summon, protected by Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence where legal
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru, Dominus Impulse) to break the opponent's first summon chain, then Synchro through the remaining board
• Recovery: Graveyard recursion via Crimson Call, Synkron Resonator, and Monster Reborn; Red Zone to revive banished DARK Dragon Synchro monsters
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be scored; treated as unavailable

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its card scores. Its Resonator core (27 core-group copies, about 97% chance of at least one in a 5-card opening hand per the hypergeometric proxy) gives it a reasonably reliable starter route into Synchro Summons, and 15 Synchro cards in the Extra Deck give it real closing power through Red Dragon Archfiend-named boards. Interaction is dense (12 hand traps and about 21 negation-text cards), which supports end-board and going-second strength. However, the deck is illegal in OCG as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse are each run at 3 copies against a limit of 2, so the evaluation is theoretical and structural only. Its archetype purity is low (12 exact Resonator copies, 17.1%) and it mixes Archfiend, Bystial, Dominus, Forbidden and Branded pieces, which weakens consistency and pilotability. Popularity of the Resonator archetype did not earn points, and no combo boards were supplied, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 52, Going Second ≈ 50, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); engine conflicts (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional); illegal-deck modifiers applied, theoretical only

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.97 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.03 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense hand-trap and negation package (12 hand traps, about 21 negation-text cards)
• Real Synchro closing power from Red Dragon Archfiend-named boards
• Strong core-group access: about 97% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (proxy)

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards over the OCG copy limit
• Low archetype purity (17.1%) across five related sub-archetypes
• No Side Deck, so no adaptability
• Heavy pilot burden across Synchro material and hand-trap timing

Critical choke points

• Over-limit Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse must be cut to 2 copies before the deck is playable
• Synchro Summons depend on Soul Resonator or Vision Resonator reaching the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Dominus Impulse at 3 copies vs 2 legal in OCG; Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules; Extra Deck: 15 Synchro monsters, including Red Dragon Archfiend 3000 ATK and Red Supernova Dragon 4000 ATK
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.97 via archetype-core hypergeometric proxy; Consistency and brick estimates from copy histogram and card-text role tags; Interaction density read from text tags (12 hand traps, about 21 negation-text cards)
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit and tournament reliability (no tournament link or dated meta)
• 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 exists in YGOVN for this deck No Side Deck registered, so post-side performance is unscoreable Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied