Radiant Typhoon Deck #772924 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

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

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Control, Mechanic: Link
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 55 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Sky Striker Ace link monsters (Kagari, Zero, Hayate, Shizuku, Azalea, Zeke, Camellia) and Ecclesia / Albaz Dragon Extra Deck threats, accessed through Sky Striker spells and searchers.; Removal and negation-heavy disruption (Forbidden Crown, Forbidden Droplet, Raigeki, Harpie's Feather Duster, Mystical Space Typhoon) that keeps the opponent off a board.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Sky Striker searcher (Mobilize - Engage!, Radiant Typhoon Vision draw) and convert into a Link Summon of a Sky Striker Ace, using Mecha tokens and spell-based recursion where the no-monsters-in-Main-Zone condition allows.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre and Solemn Judgment to protect the first line, then Forbidden Crown or Widow Anchor on the opposing monster and a Link Summon to rebuild the board.
• Recovery: Draw-based recovery via Pot of Desires, Pot of Sloth and Upstart Goblin, with Sky Striker spells recurred from the GY to re-enable Aces.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs zero side-deck cards, so no post-side plan exists in the evidence.

Why it scores here

This deck is scored as a structural system, not as an average of its cards, and it is capped low because the list is Illegal: The Fallen & The Virtuous is run three times against a Semi-Limited limit of two. Its engine is accessible through Sky Striker searchers (Mobilize - Engage! and the Radiant Typhoon Vision draw), but the hypergeometric odds of a searcher in an opening five are only about 0.56, and most Sky Striker spells are conditional on having no monsters in the Main Monster Zone, which raises brick risk in a deck with 38 spells in 55 main slots. Interaction is the strongest part of the system (negation, destruction and control effects across roughly 17 interaction cards), which lifts going-second strength, and the Link Extra Deck gives several independent closing lines. Popularity did not earn points: the Radiant Typhoon archetype purity is only 4.3 percent exact-name, and the deck is mostly Sky Striker with Greed and Forbidden staples, so the archetype label is not a strength by itself. No combo evidence, tournament record or side deck exists, so the score is theoretical only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 55, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: Illegal copy-limit violation (cap) (-12); No side deck (0); Banlist exposure (Limited and Semi-Limited in-format) (0). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 52.8 before modifiers; Illegal status applies a cap, so the reported score is 30 (theoretical/structural-only). Meta Power is null (provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.56 · 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

• Broad interaction suite: negation, destruction and control effects on both monsters and backrow
• Strong draw density through Pot of Desires, Pot of Sloth, Upstart Goblin and Radiant Typhoon Vision
• Multiple independent Link Ace closers and two non-Link Extra threats (Ecclesia synchro, Dragon fusion)
• Hand traps (Ash Blossom and Ghost Ogre) give going-second protection

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: The Fallen & The Virtuous exceeds its copy limit
• No side deck at all, so there is no best-of-3 adaptability
• Heavy spell count (38) with many no-monster-zone conditions creates brick and dead-hand risk
• Low exact-archetype purity (4.3 percent); the list mixes Sky Striker, Branded, Greed, Forbidden and generic staples
• No combo evidence, so floor, median and ceiling are inferred from card text only

Critical choke points

• The Sky Striker Ace Link Summon depends on the no-monsters-in-Main-Zone condition on several spells, so a single monster-in-zone state can stall the line
• Searcher density is about 0.56 in an opening five, so a non-searcher hand may have no engine start

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is 55 main and 15 extra, within OCG size rules (main 40 to 60, extra up to 15, side up to 15); The Fallen & The Virtuous runs 3 copies against a legal limit of 2, making the list Illegal; Radiant Typhoon exact-name purity is 4.3 percent; Sky Striker is the largest archetype family at 30 copies; Side deck is empty; no tournament link or combo boards are present
• Observed: Archetype usage statistics show Radiant Typhoon Vision (71.7 percent) and Mystical Space Typhoon (65 percent) as core cards that are present
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency estimates from the hypergeometric table; Interaction density and going-second strength from card text; Brick risk from the 38-spell main deck with no-monster-zone conditions; Closing power from Link Ace and Extra Deck ATK values
• Provisional: Matchup and format fit (D13) without a dated meta sample; Tournament reliability without any recorded performance data
• Data gaps: No combos supplied, so combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link, so archetype meta-share and per-pilot records are absent No win-rate telemetry for going-first, going-second, matchup, brick or starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No side deck, so post-side performance cannot be assessed