Radiant Typhoon Deck #774577 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 40/100 (±8 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Tempo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 3 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Radiant Typhoon board pressure: Fonix, Varuroon and Shiina as 2900-3000 ATK / DEF bodies, supported by Quick-Play Spell chains that special summon from hand; Extra Deck Link and Xyz boards (Varuroon the Marine Eidolon, Hraesvelgr, Totem Bird, Number 75) built off the Radiant Typhoon monsters
• Turn 1 (going first): Open with Mystical Space Typhoon, Radiant Typhoon Vision, Forbidden Droplet or Super Polymerization to clear a backrow or fuel Quick-Play special summons, then extend into the Radiant Typhoon Link/Xyz route
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Artifact Lancea and Varuroon as hand traps against the opponent's starter, then answer their board with Dark Ruler No More, Forbidden Crown or Varuroon's negation and rebuild through Radiant Typhoon searchers
• Recovery: Radiant Typhoon Chant, Ascendance and Manifestation send Mystical Space Typhoon back to hand or deck, and Vision and Krosea rebuild the hand; these are Inferred from card text, not observed in recorded boards
• After siding: None available: the deck has no side deck, so every best-of-3 game after the first is played without adjustment

Why it scores here

Scored as the system, not an average of card scores. The 25-copy Radiant Typhoon core reaches at least one starter in a 5-card opening hand about 96% of the time (Inferred, hypergeometric), and 18 searcher-text cards add redundancy, so the engine is easy to find. Interaction is dense: 6 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 16 removal-text cards give strong end-board control. The deck has no recorded boards, no combo ceiling and no median output data, so the floor and ceiling are text-only estimates and carry low weight. Popularity (the archetype core is in 91% of the reference list) and the deck's Limited and Semi-Limited cards did not earn points on their own. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2), so the score is capped as theoretical only, and the empty side deck drags down post-side adaptability.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 56, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 52. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-6); no_side_deck (-4). Final formula: Illegal cap: theoretical 0.80*Structural(56) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(52) + ContextModifiers(-10) = 45, capped at 40 as theoretical only; Meta Power provisional (null)

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

• Core engine is easy to find: 25 copies of the Radiant Typhoon core, with P(>=1 in opening 5) ~0.96
• Dense interaction: 6 hand traps plus negation and removal text on the field
• Strong end-board bodies: Fonix 3000, Varuroon 3000 DEF, Shiina 2900

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: 2 over-limit cards (Ash Blossom, Super Polymerization)
• No side deck, so no post-side adjustment
• Low archetype purity (34%) with many off-archetype copies

Critical choke points

• Mystical Space Typhoon count drives the Quick-Play special summon routes and the recovery plan
• Hand-trap coverage at going second depends on 6 cards (P>=1 in hand of 6 ~0.51)

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 56, Extra 15, Side 0 are within the TCG size rules; Ash Blossom and Super Polymerization each run 3 copies against a limit of 2; Radiant Typhoon Chant and S:P Little Knight are each at 1 copy against a Limited limit of 1; Card text and stats come from the resolved card list
• Inferred: Starter access (~0.96 for the core) and brick rate (~0.04) from hypergeometric estimates; Interaction density from text flags; Going-first and going-second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup fit (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: No recorded combos; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only No tournament link; archetype meta-share and pilot match record are absent No win-rate telemetry; going-first and going-second splits are Inferred Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample