Radiant Typhoon Deck #762408 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 7 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-climb into Sky Striker Ace Link monsters (Zero 2000 ATK, Raye/Kagari/Azalea 1500-plus ATK) and push damage with Sky Striker recursion; Attrition through hand traps and draw spells (Pot of Sloth, Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Radiant Typhoon Vision) while the opponent is locked out
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker Mobilize or Raye starter, Link Summon an Ace, then hold Ash Blossom and Droll for the opponent's response (Inferred; no combos supplied)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Evenly Matched, Solemn Judgment) to answer the opponent's first summon or activation and then rebuild a Link board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Sky Striker Ace recursion from the GY after a Link monster is destroyed, plus Lemnisgate and Mobilize searches (text-based, Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no side deck (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal: it runs three Forbidden cards (Albion the Branded Dragon, Called by the Grave, Triple Tactics Talent) and four over-limit Limited or Semi-Limited cards, so it gets the illegal cap and this score is theoretical and structural only. Structurally, the deck is a Sky Striker Link engine with a strong interaction suite (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Evenly Matched and Ghost Ogre), which earns credit for going-second and interruption resilience. The engine is diluted by roughly 67 off-archetype copies across Greed, Branded, Solemn, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Ecclesia and Albaz, and the Albaz and Ecclesia extra-deck cards have no listed Fallen of Albaz material or target in the main deck, so they read as dead slots (Inferred). There is no side deck, no combo evidence, and no tournament or meta data, so Meta Power is null and Tournament Reliability is low. The score comes from consistency, interaction and resilience on the system, not from averaging card scores and not from the archetype's popularity; the usage statistics show only 2 of 25 core cards present.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 42, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-8). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*49 + 0.20*35 - 8 = 38; capped to 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical and structural only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · 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

• Layered hand-trap suite (Ash Blossom, Droll and Lock Bird, Ghost Ogre, Evenly Matched, Solemn Judgment) gives strong going-second interaction
• Sky Striker recursion and Link monsters give a real end-board and finishing power ceiling
• Multiple draw and search spells (Pot of Sloth, Pot of Desires, Upstart Goblin, Radiant Typhoon Vision) support card flow

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: three Forbidden cards and four over-limit copies must be removed before this deck can be played in TCG
• Engine is diluted across Greed, Branded, Solemn, Mulcharmy, Forbidden, Ecclesia and Albaz, with only 4.3 percent exact-archetype purity
• Albaz and Ecclesia extra-deck cards have no listed Fallen of Albaz material or target, so they are likely dead slots
• No side deck, so there is no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace monsters must be Link Summoned with specific materials, so a single lost starter can stall the engine
• Going first with no hand trap in hand leaves the engine exposed to a single interruption (Inferred)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: 55 main and 15 extra cards, three Forbidden cards, and seven copy-limit violations; Hypergeometric draw odds and archetype usage statistics (2 of 25 core cards present); Card text for the Sky Striker, hand-trap and draw cards in the excerpts
• Inferred: Consistency and brick estimates from hypergeometric odds and composition; Going-first and going-second plans from card text, since no combos are recorded; Interaction quality and resilience read from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and matchup fit, pending a dated metagame sample
• 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 are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN, so going-first and going-second splits are Inferred No side deck, so post-side performance is unknown Meta Power stays provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied