Radiant Typhoon Deck #774529 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Combo
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Interaction-heavy Midrange
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Quick-Play-triggered Special Summons of Radiant Typhoon monsters (Krosea, Varuroon, Fonix, Shiina) building a board of 2200-3000 ATK bodies and then pressuring with the Extra Deck.; Hand-trap and negation interaction (Ash Blossom x3, Artifact Lancea x3, Varuroon, Dark Ruler No More, Forbidden Droplet) that stops the opponent's engine so the Radiant Typhoon board can attack.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open on a Radiant Typhoon monster that can Special Summon from hand (Eldam/Swen/Meghala) when the opponent controls no Spell/Trap or Mystical Space Typhoon is in the GY, then search a Spell/Trap or Mystical Space Typhoon and use Quick-Play Spells to trigger Krosea, Fonix and Varuroon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea and Varuroon as hand traps against the opponent's first engine, then respond with Quick-Play activations that trigger Special Summons from hand and rebuild the board.
• Recovery: Radiant Typhoon Mandate can target up to 3 Quick-Play Spells in the GY to shuffle them back, draw 1, and boost WIND monsters; Krosea and Vision provide additional draws and searches.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered (side count 0), so there is no evidenced post-side plan; best-of-3 adaptation is not supported by the list.

Why it scores here

The deck's score comes from how the Radiant Typhoon system behaves as a whole, not from averaging its 56 cards. It reliably opens an engine: the 25-copy archetype core has about a 96% chance of at least one card in a 5-card opening hand (hypergeometric, Inferred), and 18 searchers add redundancy. Its Quick-Play-triggered summons, six hand traps and roughly 15 negation or removal effects give it strong interaction density and some resilience to a single disruption. Pressure is credible through 2200-3000 ATK monsters and Extra Deck options, but the median board is unobserved because no combos were supplied, so ceiling and floor are text-based. The score is capped at 40 because the list is illegal: Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization are over their copy limits. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, not that it is strong, and the lack of a Side Deck and of any dated meta sample keeps the score low.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Combo (D13 dropped and weights re-normalized to 97). Structural ≈ 63.7, Going First ≈ 66, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 56. Modifiers: Banlist / copy-limit exposure (-3); Engine conflicts (-2). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(63.7) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(56) + ContextModifiers(-5) = 57 uncapped; Illegal cap applied -> 40 (theoretical/structural-only, not a normal Final Contextual score)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.96 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.04 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Three Mystical Space Typhoon plus several Quick-Play summoners give a consistent engine trigger
• Six hand traps and around 15 negation or removal effects provide layered interaction
• Archetype core is reliably accessible in opening hands (about 96%, Inferred)
• Extra Deck has Link, Xyz and Fusion options for flexible finishing

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: two cards exceed their Semi-Limited copy limits
• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Low archetype purity (34%) with 47 off-archetype copies, creating brick and conflict risk
• No recorded combos, tournament data, or matchup data

Critical choke points

• Dependence on Mystical Space Typhoon and Quick-Play triggers for most Special Summon lines
• Limited Radiant Typhoon Chant (1 copy) and S:P Little Knight (1 copy) are single-copy restricted cards

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 counts within size rules; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring 3 copies vs legal 2 (over limit); Super Polymerization 3 copies vs legal 2 (over limit); Radiant Typhoon Chant and S:P Little Knight each at 1 copy vs Limited legal 1; Archetype core 25 copies; purity 33.8%
• Inferred: Opening-hand consistency figures from hypergeometric estimates; Engine and interaction read from card text excerpts; Going-first and going-second estimates
• Provisional: Meta and matchup fit (D13); Tournament reliability context
• Data gaps: no combos supplied: combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link: archetype meta-share and per-pilot record absent no win-rate telemetry for this deck Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample usage statistics marks Hraesvelgr, S:P Little Knight, Wynn, Maple Maiden and Varuroon (Marine Eidolon) as not in deck, but cards[] lists them as extra-deck entries; cards[] was treated as authoritative and the mismatch should be checked No Side Deck present