Radiant Typhoon Deck #772268 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±12 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Blind-Second/OTK
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 41 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link-chain Sky Striker Ace monsters into high-ATK Link boss monsters (Surgical Striker - H.A.M.P., Combined Maneuver - Engage Zero!) and close with battle and direct pressure; Fusion boss monsters (Mudragon of the Swamp, Garura) reached through Super Polymerization, which is itself over the copy limit
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Sky Striker Mobilize - Linkage!, Radiant Typhoon Vision, or Sky Striker Ace - Raye/Roze to reach a Sky Striker Ace, then Link Summon Kagari, Zero or Zeke for board and recursion
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence or Forbidden Droplet to stop the opponent's first engine, then rebuild through Mulcharmy Fuwalos draws and Sky Striker spell recursion
• Recovery: Recover Sky Striker spells from the GY via Sky Striker Special Maneuver - Lemnisgate! and Sky Striker Ace - Kagari, then re-Link through the 10-copy Radiant Typhoon/Sky Striker core
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs no Side Deck, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

This list is Illegal in OCG: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and Super Polymerization are each run three times against a limit of two, so the score is a theoretical structural read capped low and not a normal final score. Structurally the deck reliably opens a Sky Striker Ace starter through its roughly 77% chance of at least one archetype-core card in a five-card opening hand (Inferred), and it has real redundancy in its Link engine and spell recursion. Its interaction density is solid, with six hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards, so it can slow an opponent's first engine. Consistency and conversion are held back by the absence of recorded boards, the lack of any Side Deck to adapt after game one, and a high pilot burden across many Link and spell steps. Archetype popularity and tournament share were not credited, and no card scores were averaged into the result.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 54, Going First ≈ 58, Going Second ≈ 52, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-8); no side deck (-4). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional); Illegal deck, so theoretical structural-only and capped low

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.77 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.23 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Archetype-core density gives about 77% chance of at least one core card in a 5-card opening hand (Inferred)
• Six hand traps and fourteen negation-text cards provide layered interaction (Inferred)
• Spell recursion through Sky Striker cards in the GY supports recovery (Inferred)

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy-limit violations on Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization (Verified)
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation (Verified)
• No recorded boards, so the combo floor and median are unverified (Verified gap)
• High pilot burden across many Link and spell steps (Inferred)

Critical choke points

• Reliance on a single Sky Striker Ace in hand or Extra for the Link engine (Inferred)
• Super Polymerization is needed for the fusion route and is itself over the limit (Verified)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 41 and Extra 15 are within size rules; Side is 0 which is legal; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring ×3 and Super Polymerization ×3 exceed the Semi-Limited limit of 2; Three Limited cards run at full legal count; no Forbidden cards; Archetype usage: Droll & Lock Bird is missing from the core (74%)
• Inferred: Starter probability ≈ 0.77 for at least one archetype-core card in hand of 5; Hand-trap group ≈ 0.64 when going second; Combo ceiling and median estimated from card text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: Deck is Illegal; the score is a theoretical structural read and not a normal final score No combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power remains provisional without a dated metagame sample Deck title is null in the export