Resonator Deck #772726 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Synchro-based boss pressure (Red Dragon Archfiend line and Bystial/Red Supernova-style Synchro bosses) once a Resonator Tuner is on the field; Bystial banish-and-summon value into Dragon Synchro bosses
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with a Resonator searcher or Resonator Call, send to GY, and Synchro Summon a Dragon boss while holding hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Infinite Impermanence) for the opponent's first interaction
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler and Droll & Lock Bird to answer the opponent's starter, then rebuild a board through Soul Resonator and Crimson Gaia
• Recovery: Resonator monsters recurse from the GY (Synkron, Vision, Crimson Resonator) and Crimson Gaia/Resonator Call refill the hand
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The Resonator shell reliably opens with a searcher (Soul Resonator x3, Resonator Call, Vision Resonator, Synkron Resonator) at about 95% for at least one searcher-text card in a 5-card hand, which is the main reason D1 is high. The deck converts that opening into Synchro bosses with strong closing stats (Red Dragon Archfiend family, Red Supernova Dragon, Bystial Dis Pater), and eleven hand traps plus negation and removal text support D7 and D5. The weaknesses are a missing Side Deck (D12 near zero), a 15-card Extra Deck with no recorded board data, and most importantly an illegal main deck: three copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a Semi-Limited limit of two. The score is therefore capped at 35 under the illegality rule, and the structural read of 60 is theoretical only. The score comes from consistency, interaction and closing power on the system, not from averaging the card scores, and not from archetype popularity, which earned no points because there is no tournament or meta-share evidence.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: 0.8 Combo / 0.2 Midrange. Structural ≈ 60, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure: copy limit exceeded (-6); no side deck (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*60 + 0.20*50 = 58 before modifiers. Modifiers total -10 gives 48, then the Illegal legality cap (rubric Step 2: illegal deck does not receive a normal Final score) sets the final score to 35, labelled theoretical/structural-only.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.95 · 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

• Opening access is very consistent: about 95% for a searcher-text card in a 5-card hand
• Eleven hand traps and ten negation-text cards give layered interaction
• Synchro boss closing power reaches 3500–4500 ATK
• Extra Deck of 15 Synchro cards is fully used with broad options

Weaknesses

• The Main Deck is illegal: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies, two over the Semi-Limited limit
• There is no Side Deck, so post-side adaptation is impossible
• Only 10 of 40 Main Deck copies are the exact Resonator name, so the engine depends on sub-archetype and generic cards
• Pilot demands are high across multi-step Synchro and negation timing

Critical choke points

• Dropping Ash Blossom to 2 copies is required before the list is legal; the other choke points cannot be judged without combo data
• Resonator Tuners (Soul Resonator, Synkron, Vision, Darkness) are the only Synchro enablers in the opening hand

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck is 40 cards and Extra Deck is 15 cards, both legal sizes; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring runs 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2 (illegal); Printed ATK/DEF and effect text for the Synchro bosses and hand traps; Usage stat: Soul Resonator and Crimson Gaia are core cards (83.8%) and both are present at 3 copies
• Inferred: P(>=1 searcher in opening 5) ≈ 0.95 from hypergeometric estimate; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.88; Engine consistency and brick rate from text and composition; Interaction density from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit (D13) because no dated metagame sample exists; Combo floor and median (D4) because no boards were supplied
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchups or brick rates Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Deck title is null in the export No Side Deck: post-side plan cannot be assessed