Radiant Typhoon Deck #769681 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 42 / Extra 10 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters (Red-Eyes Black Dragon Exceed, Number 61: Volcasaurus, Gilford the Lightning) and Dark Time Wizard board-clearing fusion/XYZ pressure, both supported by searchers and hand traps; Going-second disruption into a late boss Extra Deck summon; Albion and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon would add fusion/removal reach but are not legal in this format
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a searcher (Radiant Typhoon Vision, Alligator's Dragon Knight or Dark Time Wizard) to reach a Radiant Typhoon or Dark Time Wizard starter, protect it with Ash Blossom or Infinite Impermanence, and extend into a Extra Deck boss
• Turn 2 (going second): Use hand traps (Ash Blossom, Droll & Lock Bird, Maxx C, Infinite Impermanence) to slow the opponent's first combo, then rebuild a board through Dark Time Wizard searches and Extra Deck summons
• Recovery: Recycle Dark Time Wizard and Foolish Graverobber from the graveyard and continue with Searcher effects from Radiant Typhoon Vision and Chant
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in this list

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its searcher density (14 searcher-text cards, about 88% chance of at least one in an opening 5) gives it a reasonable chance to reach a starter, and the seven hand traps plus removal text give it real interaction, which is the main source of its points. Consistency and output are held back by a weak archetype core (only 9.6% of the main deck uses the exact Radiant Typhoon name, with 47 off-archetype copies), a high share of situational cards, and no recorded boards to show median output. Archetype popularity earned no points, and the Forbidden Albion (2 copies) and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (1 copy) make the list illegal, so the structural score is capped low and the result is theoretical only. There is no side deck, so adaptability scores near zero.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 49, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 35. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-12); illegal cap (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 46, then -12 banlist exposure modifier = 34, capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (Forbidden cards in the list)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.88 · 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

• Dense searcher suite (14 searcher-text cards) gives a high chance of reaching a starter
• Seven hand traps plus a removal layer give strong interaction on both turns
• Two independent starter lines (Radiant Typhoon and Dark Time Wizard) reduce single-choke-point risk

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Albion x2 and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon x1 are Forbidden
• Low exact archetype purity (9.6%) and 11 archetype labels mean engine coherence is weak
• No side deck and no recorded combos or tournament data

Critical choke points

• Every Dark Time Wizard payoff needs a Dark Time Wizard or matching searcher to be in hand
• Hand-trap-dependent interaction is lost if the opponent's first combo is not a monster or Spell effect

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is Illegal: Albion the Branded Dragon (2 copies) and Red-Eyes Dark Dragoon (1 copy) are Forbidden in OCG; Main 42 cards (within 40-60), Extra 10 (within 0-15), Side 0; Exact archetype purity 9.6%; 11 archetype labels in the main deck; Searcher-text count 14, hand-trap count 7, negation text 8, removal text 20
• Inferred: P(at least one searcher in opening 5) approx 0.88; Hand-trap and removal interaction layering rated from card text; Going-first versus going-second split estimated from hand-trap count
• Provisional: Meta Power (null) and D13 matchup/format fit are unsupported by a dated metagame sample
• 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 and brick rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied No side deck registered (side_count 0) Guides: 0 snippets for Radiant Typhoon