Radiant Typhoon Deck #769935 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 49 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Extra Deck boss monsters from Gladiator Beast Fusion and Link lines (Claudius 3700, Domitianus 3500, Heraklinos 3000, Shuraig 3000) reached through searcher-driven Gladiator Beast and Tri-Brigade plays; Horus recursion from the GY with 2 King's Sarcophagus, and Mulcharmy draw-based card advantage
• Turn 1 (going first): Search a Level 4 or lower Gladiator Beast (Proving Ground, Flavian, Gistel), special-summon into a Tri-Brigade or Gladiator Beast link or fusion line, and protect the turn with Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Droll, Maxx C and Nibiru to break the opponent's first board, then force through with Domitianus or Heraklinos negates and Claudius pressure
• Recovery: Recycle GY Gladiator Beasts with Gistel, Equeste and Gladiator Beast's Comeback, and re-search via Test Panther or Gladiator Proving Ground
• After siding: Not evaluable: the export lists 0 side-deck cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a Midrange system built around a Gladiator Beast searcher engine, with Tri-Brigade and Horus lines as secondary engines. It reliably opens a functional plan: about 85% of going-first hands contain at least one searcher (Inferred), and the 15 searchers are spread across Gladiator Beast cards. Interaction is layered, with Ash Blossom, Droll and Maxx C as hand traps and Gladiator Beast War Chariot, Domitianus and Heraklinos as negates, which carries resilience and going-second board-breaking. Closing power comes from the Extra Deck bosses, not from popularity: the usage data confirms the core list but earns no points by itself. No combos were supplied, so ceiling and median are text-only reads, and the score is not an average of card scores. The lack of a side deck and the missing Radiant Typhoon core cards cap the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange, D13 dropped and renormalized over 95 (meta-neutral structural). Structural ≈ 63, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 55. Modifiers: Side deck absent (-2); Split engine across sub-archetypes (-1); Limited hand traps in format (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural(63.0) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(55) + ContextModifiers(-4) = 57.4, rounded to 57; no reliable metagame so Meta is provisional

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.85 · 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

• 15 searchers give high starter access and redundancy (Inferred)
• Layered hand traps and negates (Ash, Droll, Maxx C, Nibiru, War Chariot, Domitianus, Heraklinos) for interaction (Inferred)
• High-ATK Extra Deck bosses with recursion lines (Verified text)

Weaknesses

• No side deck: no post-side plan and no way to adapt across a best-of-3 (Verified absence)
• Label/list mismatch: the deck is tagged Radiant Typhoon but has no Radiant Typhoon cards (Verified)
• Three sub-engines (Gladiator Beast, Tri-Brigade, Horus) with only partial overlap; Horus needs 2 King's Sarcophagus (Inferred)
• Heavy singleton count (18 cards at 1 copy) raises variance in opening hands (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Gladiator Beast searcher or starter on T1 (about 85% of hands have a searcher; the core is about 50%)
• Horus line depends on 2 King's Sarcophagus (about 20% in a 5-card hand)
• Limited hand traps Maxx C and Droll are single copies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legal list: 49 main, 15 extra, 0 side, copy limits respected (Droll and Maxx C at 1, Ash at 2); Card text and banlist status for all listed cards; Usage stats: Mulcharmy, Droll, Ash are core; Radiant Typhoon Vision is missing
• Inferred: Starter access about 0.85 via 15 searchers; Going-second hand-trap access about 0.62; Consistency and brick estimates from text and hypergeometric draws; Interaction layering from negate and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; no dated metagame sample; D13 matchup fit is neutral 50 and excluded from structural
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: ceiling and median are text-only inference No tournament link: no meta share or match record No win-rate telemetry in YGOVN No side-deck list: post-side scoring impossible Deck labelled Radiant Typhoon but contains no Radiant Typhoon cards