Resonator Deck #772117 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 32/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro Summon high-ATK Dragons (Red Dragon Archfiend, Centur-Ion Legatia, Chaos Angel, Bystial Dis Pater) off a Resonator Tuner plus non-Tuner base, then close through board-breaking Synchro attacks.; Hand-trap-protected Synchro chains that recover the engine through Resonator and Centur-Ion recursion in the GY.
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Fiend or Resonator Tuner with Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator or Vision Resonator, then build a Level-matched Synchro base and hold Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence for the turn-2 Extra Deck summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Keep Ash Blossom, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird or Evenly Matched to stop the opponent's first board, then Synchro through the remaining Extra Deck monsters.
• Recovery: Recover Resonators and Centur-Ion monsters from the GY via Synkron Resonator, Centur-Ion Bonds, Stand Up Centur-Ion! and Crimson Call, and re-Synchro the next turn.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck's engine is accessible: the Resonator/Archfiend core has a 95.6% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand, and 16 searcher-text cards add redundancy, so the Synchro base usually comes online by turn 2 (Inferred, hypergeometric). Interaction is dense for OCG: 12 hand traps, Infinite Impermanence, Droll & Lock Bird, Dark Ruler No More and Bystial Magnamhut give a 78% chance of at least one hand trap in a going-second 6-card hand, which supports resilience and going-second play. The Extra Deck is a strong closer, with several 3000+ ATK Synchro monsters and Red Dragon Archfiend's board-breaking attack. The score is held down by the deck's structure rather than its cards: no recorded boards exist, so combo floor and median are text-only estimates, there is no Side Deck, and the list breaks the copy limit on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring (3 copies, legal 2), which makes it structural-only. The score is not based on the Resonator archetype's popularity, and card scores were not averaged.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 60.3, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 42. Modifiers: Illegal: copy limit exceeded (-10); Banlist exposure (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*60.3 + 0.20*42 = 56.6; the Illegal legality status then caps the result at 32 (theoretical/structural-only). Modifiers below are the reasons for the cap and the banlist exposure.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · 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

• Core engine is highly accessible (P ≈ 0.96 for at least one core card in a 5-card hand).
• Dense hand-trap and negation suite (12 hand traps; 78% chance of one in a going-second 6-card hand).
• Strong Extra Deck closers (3000–3500 ATK Synchro monsters).

Weaknesses

• Copy-limit violation on Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring makes the list illegal as built.
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptability.
• No recorded boards, so combo floor and median cannot be measured.
• Low archetype purity (8.5% exact-name) with 27 generic and 13 Centur-Ion copies.

Critical choke points

• Resonator Tuner in hand is required for most Synchro lines; Soul Resonator, Synkron Resonator, Vision Resonator and Darkness Resonator are the only bases.
• Ash Blossom is over the copy limit, so the illegal list cannot be played as built.
• Several Limited cards are single-copy, so losing one to a banlist change would break a Synchro route.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Illegal, Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (OCG Semi-Limited).; Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 within OCG size rules.; Archetype core: 25 copies, 95.6% P(≥1 in opening 5).; Extra Deck: 15 Synchro monsters, 13 distinct.
• Observed: Archetype usage: 56% of core cards present in this list (usage_statistics).
• Inferred: Consistency and hand-trap probabilities are hypergeometric estimates.; Recovery and interaction reads are semantic readings of card text.; Going-first and going-second power estimates come from the text-based dimension scores.
• Provisional: Meta power is null: no dated metagame sample.; Matchup and format fit (D13) is provisional: no tournament context.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference. No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent. No win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick and starter rates). Meta power is provisional without a dated metagame sample. Deck has no title and no Side Deck; post-side plan cannot be evaluated.