Resonator Deck #772445 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro beatdown and boss monsters from the Red Dragon Archfiend line (Red Dragon Archfiend, Scarlight, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss/Bane, Bystial Dis Pater) backed by Crimson Gaia and Red Rising Dragon recursion; Light and Darkness Ritual package (Black Chaos, Magician of Dark Chaos, Black Luster Soldier) for a second threat and Ritual Spell searches
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Resonator tuner with Soul Resonator or Synkron Resonator, use Crimson Call or Crimson Gaia to find a Red Dragon Archfiend route, then Synchro Summon a boss while holding Ash Blossom or Ghost Ogre for interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Skull Meister, Ghost Ogre and Infinite Impermanence to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Red Rising Dragon and Crimson Blade Dragon
• Recovery: Recover the Resonator tuners and Red Dragon Archfiend from the GY via Vision Resonator, Red Rising Dragon and Crimson Call, then re-Synchro through the Extra Deck
• After siding: Not evaluable: the list has zero side deck cards, so there is no post-side plan to score

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens a Resonator tuner or searcher in most hands: the archetype core has about a 95 percent chance of at least one copy in a 5-card opening hand, and searcher text covers about 89 percent. Its strength is the system, not the card list. Fifteen hand traps and sixteen negation effects give it layered interaction that is most visible going second, where a hand-trap hand is live about 86 percent of the time. Closing power comes from several 3000+ ATK Synchro bosses and Red Dragon Archfiend's destruction effect, backed by Synchro recursion through Red Rising Dragon. Score is capped because the list runs three copies each of two Semi-Limited cards (Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse) and has no side deck, so there is no legal list to rate as a tournament deck. Popularity and archetype usage were not credited, and card scores were not averaged. No combo boards were supplied, so the ceiling and median come from text reading only and carry low confidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 68, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: Banlist exposure (-8); No side deck (-4). Final formula: Uncapped: 0.80*Structural(60) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-12) = 46; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (over copy limit on two Semi-Limited cards). Theoretical/structural-only. Meta provisional (null).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.05 (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 with 15 hand traps and 16 negation texts
• Searcher density (19 cards) makes the Resonator and Ritual engines reliably accessible
• Strong Synchro closers with Red Dragon Archfiend and Abyss/Bane bosses
• Recursion via Red Rising Dragon, Vision Resonator and Crimson Call sustains resources

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: three copies of two Semi-Limited cards
• Zero side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low exact-name archetype purity (11.3 percent) and a split engine across Archfiend, Resonator and Ritual
• No combo data, so ceiling and median are unsupported by recorded boards

Critical choke points

• Red Dragon Archfiend and Crimson Gaia / Crimson Call routes depend on a Synchro Tuner being alive
• Hand-trap interruption before the first Synchro Summon ends the turn for many openers

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 (within size rules for OCG); Ash Blossom and Dominus Impulse run 3 copies vs Semi-Limited limit of 2; Archetype core open-hand probability 0.947 and searcher-text group 0.886
• Inferred: Starter reliability and brick risk from hypergeometric estimates and copy histogram; Interaction quality from negation and removal text counts; Going-second strength from hand-trap group probability
• Provisional: Meta Power is null: no dated metagame sample is supplied; D13 matchup fit is a neutral placeholder
• 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 in YGOVN: going-first, going-second, matchup and brick/starter rates are Inferred or Unknown no side deck: post-side plan cannot be scored Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied