Resonator Deck #772588 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 64/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro extension into Red Dragon Archfiend / Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss / Crimson King boards, using Resonator tuners and searchers to make the Synchro summons; Attrition through hand traps and negates, then a single large Synchro beater (Red Dragon Archfiend ATK 3000, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss ATK 3200)
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Resonator (Soul Resonator / Vision Resonator / Synkron Resonator) with a searcher, bring a Tuner and a non-Tuner to Synchro Summon a Red Dragon Archfiend-family monster, and keep Ash Blossom / Infinite Impermanence / Lightning Storm up as protection
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold 1-2 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first summon or search, then use Resonator searches to rebuild the Synchro line on the following turn
• Recovery: Recover from the GY with Synkron Resonator and Vision Resonator recursion, Crimson Call, and Red Zone to restore a Synchro monster from the banished or Extra zones
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so no post-side plan can be executed; the list is fixed for every game

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: 30 copies of the Resonator core give a 0.985 chance of at least one archetype card in a 5-card opening hand, and 19 searcher-text cards give 0.89 for at least one searcher, so a Synchro engine is usually live by turn 2 (Inferred from hypergeometric estimates). Conversion into a Synchro boss is a real but narrow route, with a large Extra Deck of Red Dragon Archfiend-family monsters that gives several ways to finish. Interruption resilience and going-second strength come from 10 hand traps and multiple negates, which can break the opponent's first summon or search before the engine starts. The score is built from consistency, median output and interaction on the whole system; it is not an average of card scores, and the archetype's popularity does not add points. The deck has no Side Deck, no combo records and no tournament data, so the score uses the Combo profile with Meta Power left provisional and the tournament reliability and pilotability sub-scores kept conservative.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 68, Going First ≈ 65, Going Second ≈ 67, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 62. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-1); no Side Deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers (-3) = 0.80*68 + 0.20*62 - 3 = 63.8, rounded to 64

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.89 · 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 almost always accessible (archetype core 0.985 in a 5-card hand)
• Strong layered interaction: 10 hand traps plus Ash Blossom, Dominus Impulse, Solemn Judgment, Infinite Impermanence and Lightning Storm
• Multiple high-ATK Synchro finishers across the Extra Deck, including Red Dragon Archfiend, Hot Red Dragon Archfiend Abyss and Crimson King

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Synchro starters need a Tuner and non-Tuner on board, so some hands bricks or hand-only dead ends
• Several Limited/Semi-Limited cards in the Main Deck raise banlist exposure

Critical choke points

• A single Tuner on board is needed for most Synchro lines; losing it to a hand trap or removal ends the turn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal size (55 Main, 15 Extra, 0 Side) and copy limits for all restricted cards; Card text and stats for all listed Resonator, Archfiend and Synchro monsters; Core/proxy probabilities from the hypergeometric table
• Observed: Usage statistics: 16 of 25 core cards present (64%)
• Inferred: Engine accessibility and brick estimates; Combo ceiling and floor from card text only; Interaction quality and going-second strength from hand-trap density
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No Side Deck registered; post-side performance cannot be assessed