Trap
ContinuousRadiant Typhoon Mandate
Archetype:
Radiant Typhoon
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Once per turn: You can target 3 Quick-Play Spells in your GY, including a "Radiant Typhoon" card; apply the following effects in sequence. ● Shuffle them into the Deck, then draw 1 card. ● All WIND monsters you control gain 300 ATK/DEF this turn. Once per Chain, when "Mystical Space Typhoon" is activated: You can target 1 face-up card your opponent controls; negate its effects. If this card is destroyed by the effect of "Mystical Space Typhoon": You can Set this card.
Radiant Typhoon Mandate — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 59 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Removal/Negation · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion
Why it scores here
Radiant Typhoon Mandate is a continuous Trap whose value comes from two linked effects: a once-per-chain negate on the opponent's face-up card when Mystical Space Typhoon is activated, and a graveyard recycle that shuffles 3 Quick-Play Spells back and draws 1. It is in all 400 sampled decks at one copy, almost always alongside Mystical Space Typhoon (99.8%) and the Radiant Typhoon family, so accessibility and deck fit are real. The score stays moderate because the negate depends on a specific trigger the opponent can respond to, the draw is a single card, and the card is not a body or material. Its high inclusion rate and theme popularity did not raise the score; the combo data is empty, so conversion is text-only.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Set-and-play Trap present in 400/400 decks, usually reached through Mystical Space Typhoon (observed; the MST-linked timing is verified text). |
| Combo & Conversion | 40 | No recorded boards and no combo examples, so conversion rests on text alone: a draw plus a +300 ATK/DEF pump, with no board-building body (inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 60 | Shuffling 3 GY Quick-Play Spells back for 1 draw is a recycle that partly refuels the GY (verified text, inferred net value). |
| Effect & Interaction | 60 | Conditional negate on a face-up opponent card, gated on MST activation and once per Chain (verified text; reach depends on MST, so it is situational). |
| Material Utility | 5 | A Trap card cannot be material and cannot be Summoned, so body value is essentially zero (verified frame type). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 50 | Set-back if destroyed by MST gives a second use from the same card, but one copy is the norm and no redundancy data exists (verified text, observed copy distribution). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 50 | One copy in almost every deck and no garnet cost, but it pulls the player into the Radiant Typhoon shell to get value (observed copies, inferred restriction). |
Calculation
Weight profile: 0.7 Removal/Negation + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 56, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Present in every sampled deck at one copy, with a stable core partner set (MST, Radiant Typhoon family)
- Conditional negate on a face-up card that is hard to use without the MST trigger
- Graveyard recycle gives a draw from spells that would otherwise sit dead
Weaknesses
- Negate only fires off Mystical Space Typhoon activation, so it is conditional
- Single draw and no body, so board presence and material value are near zero
- Real value depends on the Radiant Typhoon shell being built around it
Counters / choke points
- Opponent can respond to Mystical Space Typhoon activation or avoid activating it (inferred from the activation-gated text)
- Opponent removal or negation of the card before it can use its MST-linked effect (inferred)
Best use
MST-linked negate and graveyard recycle inside the Radiant Typhoon shell. Decks: Radiant Typhoon, Zoodiac. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Trap Card, Continuous, with once-per-turn GY shuffle-and-draw and once-per-Chain MST-linked negate text; Set-back condition when destroyed by MST is written on the card; Trap cannot be material and has no body
- Observed: In 400/400 sampled decks at 1 copy (399 at 1, 1 at 2); Mystical Space Typhoon appears in 99.8% of those decks; Inclusion is 100% in Radiant Typhoon and Zoodiac StatisticsCard rows
- Inferred: Net graveyard value is a partial refuel rather than card advantage; Negate is situational because it depends on MST activation; Restriction to the Radiant Typhoon shell for full value
- Data gaps: no combos supplied, so combo conversion is text-only inference no banlist token, so assumed 3 copies (unlimited) single guide snippet only, so role context is thin