Radiant Typhoon Deck #772919 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

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

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Extra Deck pressure from the Sky Striker Ace monsters (Zero, Kagari, Hayate, Camellia, Zeke) plus the 3000-ATK Extra Deck boss monsters (Lava Golem, Nibiru, The Dragon that Devours the Dogma) that the hand traps help set up (Inferred); Draw-engine value from Radiant Typhoon Vision, Mulcharmy, Upstart Goblin and Pot of Sloth to outgrind a board (Inferred)
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker starter (Mobilize, Mecha, Special Maneuver) that searches or summons an Ace, then Link Summon through the Sky Striker Ace line (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, Droll and Lock Bird, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to interrupt the opponent, then rebuild through the Link Monsters and Mulcharmy draw effects (Inferred)
• Recovery: Sky Striker Mecha Hornet Drones and the Mulcharmy monsters rebuild a board from an empty field; Super Starslayer TY-PHON is an Xyz recovery path (Inferred)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has an empty Side Deck (0 cards), so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal as built: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring and The Fallen & The Virtuous are each run three times against an OCG limit of two, so it receives a capped, theoretical-only score rather than a normal contextual one. Structurally it is a Midrange shell built on a Sky Striker Ace Link engine, with 11 archetype-core copies that open at least one core card in about 69% of five-card hands (Inferred). Interaction is the strongest part of the system, with 12 hand traps and about 14 negation and 15 removal effects, which lifts D7 and D5. The Main Deck is diluted: only 3 of 67 off-name copies are exact Radiant Typhoon cards (4.3% exact-name purity), and 34 level-0 Spells and Traps plus conditional 'if you control no monsters' effects raise brick risk and lower D2 and D10. Popularity did not earn points; the usage stats show only that the core is run as expected, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score. There is no combo data and no Side Deck, so floor, median, ceiling and post-side plan are unmeasured.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 48. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (-8); Archetype identity dilution (-4). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 51, then modifiers -12 = 39, then capped at 30 because the deck is Illegal (theoretical-only, structural evaluation)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.69 · 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

• Interaction density: 12 hand traps and about 14 negation / 15 removal effects give layered answers
• Core engine is run as the archetype expects: all 5 usage-stat core cards are present (100%)
• Extra Deck gives multiple 3000-ATK closers and Link flexibility

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: two cards exceed the OCG copy limit
• Low exact-name purity (4.3%): the list leans on Sky Striker, Mulcharmy and off-theme staples rather than a single engine
• Empty Side Deck: no post-side adaptability
• 34 level-0 non-monsters and conditional 'no monsters' effects raise dead-draw risk

Critical choke points

• Lines that need 'no monsters in your Main Monster Zone' are unavailable once a monster is on the field
• Ace Link summons depend on a live Sky Striker Ace monster; a single removal or negation can end the line
• Two over-limit cards make the list unplayable under current OCG rules until corrected

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main count 55 (within the 40-60 OCG range); Extra count 15 (within 0-15); Side count 0; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring: 3 copies vs OCG legal 2 (over limit); The Fallen & The Virtuous: 3 copies vs OCG legal 2 (over limit); Exact-name purity 4.3%; usage stats: 5 of 5 core cards present (100%); Extra Deck boss ATK values (Lava Golem 3000, Nibiru 3000, Dragon that Devours the Dogma 3000, Super Starslayer 2900)
• Inferred: P(at least one archetype-core card in a 5-card hand) = 0.69; Hand trap presence in going-second hands = 0.79; Interaction quality (D7) and engine accessibility (D1) read from card text; Midrange primary strategy and Tempo / Stun secondaries
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit (D13)
• Data gaps: No parseable combos: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first / going-second, matchup, brick and OTK rates) Side Deck is empty: post-side adaptability cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample