Radiant Typhoon Deck #762986 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link Summon Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Engage Zero, Azalea) for board pressure and attacks; not a combo finish (Inferred from card text, no recorded boards); Board-clearing and interaction (Dark Hole, Raigeki, Lightning Storm) to make the opponent's board empty before attacking (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter or Radiant Typhoon monster, use Mobilize/Mecha effects while controlling no Main Monster Zone monsters, then Link Summon an Ace (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hand trap (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Droll & Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence) to break the opponent's first line, then Dark Hole or Raigeki to clear the board (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover Sky Striker Spells from the GY through Raye, Mobilize and Mecha effects to rebuild Ace access (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no Side Deck (0 of 15 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from its system rather than from averaging its cards. Its interaction suite (Dark Hole, Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment) gives it real board-clearing and disruption density, which is the strongest part of the score. Its engine is weaker: the archetype core (21 copies) is present in about 92% of opening 5-card hands, but any single starter is only about 25% likely to be live, and many Sky Striker effects are conditional on controlling no Main Monster Zone monsters, which produces dead draws. There is no recorded board data, so the combo ceiling and median are text-only inference. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the deck has no side deck, so going-second and post-side scores are capped. The list is Illegal (Forbidden Maxx "C", Triple Tactics Talent and Albion, plus three copies of a Limited card), so the score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical/structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Toolbox. Structural ≈ 51, Going First ≈ 47, Going Second ≈ 56, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 38. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); no side deck (-2); illegal-list cap (0). Final formula: Structural 50.7 -> 0.80*51 + 0.20*38 = 48.4; modifiers -8 -> 40.4; capped at 30 because the list is Illegal (theoretical/structural-only). Meta provisional and not used.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.08 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction suite: Dark Hole, Raigeki, Lightning Storm, Infinite Impermanence, Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Solemn Judgment, Dark Ruler No More
• Link Summon Extra Deck is full and uses several Sky Striker Ace monsters, giving multiple attack routes
• Sky Striker Spells can recur from the GY, which helps rebuilds

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: four copy-limit violations (Chant over limit; Maxx "C", Triple Tactics Talent and Albion Forbidden)
• Starters are conditional on an empty Main Monster Zone, creating dead draws
• No Side Deck (0 cards) for best-of-3
• Only 8 of 55 Main cards are exact Radiant Typhoon; 26 are Sky Striker spillover, so engine coherence is mixed

Critical choke points

• Sky Striker Ace monsters in hand or Extra Deck: no single starter is above about 25% likely to be live in an opening 5
• Link Summon route depends on the Extra Deck resolving with the required Ace materials

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: 4 copy-limit violations (Chant 3 vs 1; Maxx "C", Triple Tactics Talent and Albion Forbidden); Main 55 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0 (legal range 0-15); Card text for all listed cards comes from the resolved evidence
• Inferred: Primary Toolbox strategy with Combo and Control secondaries, from the Sky Striker/Link composition and interaction density; Opening-hand probabilities from hypergeometric estimates (0.2529 per 3-copy card, 0.92 for the core group); Going-first and going-second scores from dimension inference
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and Matchup/format fit (D13) because no dated meta sample or tournament link 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 match record are absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN; going-first/second, matchup and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Inconsistent usage data: Sky Striker Ace - Kagari appears in the cards list (3 copies, extra zone) but usage statistics marks it in this deck=false Deck has no title (title null) and no Side Deck