Notes & Combos

ROOKIE TO M1 complete after a year of afk. was a pretty fun climb imo. Now, if yall haven't seen my m5 list i would encourage yall to check it out before reading my reasons of playign this version of radiant typhoon rather than the m5 version.

Ok so why did I switch to this version of pure radiant typhoon? lets break down the reasons.

1. rookie to master 5 was filled with rougue decks, low turn 1 ceiling almost no turn 2 capability and some meta decks. full zoo rt combo = ez claps.
2. after m5 I started to see way more meta decks, like branded, kt, elfnotes, striker, some mirrors, dracotail etc. with my luck, coinflips stopped coming my way after m5 and i needed a better conversion going second rather than securing the turn 1 to actually climb up with a positive risk to reward. therefor, i switched to pure rt for which i immedietly got a huge friggin winstreak. granted it was nothing like lower ranks where i had a 17 game winstreak and went almost undefeated in diamond, but i got like a 7 win streaks and 5 winstreak in master.

Now lets talk tech choices.

1. why no spoly? simply because its too expensive of a cost and gets played around so easily. against branded sure it can win games but is it worth spending 2 cards in hand for when branded just reborns all their litle critters and out grinds us. kewl tunes looks at our hand and sets our deck. Do u really think they gonna let us resolve spoly? Yeah buddy keep coping. Raye laughs in the face of spoly. She genuinly chortels at it. the mirror or zoo rt just reborns their stuff. magnets/elfnotes is the only real reason to run spoly but i barely saw them.
2. why only 1 shiina? Well tbh i was very broken up about this card. at 3 i was drawing more than 1 which is horrid. Some people run 3 some ppl run 1-2. honestly i want to kinda take it out but its won me a bunch of games so it can stay at 1 for now. If you look at darevil's challenge cup winning list, he uses 3 of them. But, if u look at Ryan Yu's list from wcq day 1 climb he removed it completely. its just dependant on your attatchment to the card and i'm simply not attatched enough to run 3.
3. Why no ash? it doesnt do enough in this deck. we can play pretty well under fuwa and roach at 1. also barely does **** against other decks going second so nah im not gonna keep it in favor of droplet, tactics, roach, or fuwa which can genuilly affect the game and win it for us.
4. fnv is mandatory in this list. can dodge stuff, start plays etc.
5. 1 ascension 1 manifestation. i mean idk im trying it out and i like it so far but no big difference of runnign 1 and 1 instead of 2 ascension. the 1 and 1 has helped me play under purulia with manif send ascension summon and has also helped me double blathnir hand rip so ig ill keep it like so.
6. extrav. card advantage is everything. visions + extrav gives the extra oomph that we need. also, works pretty well with tactics to remove cards from opponent hand in case we get hand trapped.
7. noble knights is extra consistency. we are runnign extrav as well just to help since pure is a little less consistent than zoo rt.
8. 2 albion and 3 varuroon is so we don't lose plays from using extrav. also, 2 albion comes up if we use fvn on our turn to dodge effects, again on opponents turn to disrupt, and then double interuption on our turn again to secure the kill. totem bird is mandatory and 75 is mandatory. make it based on what u banish from blathnir.
9. wyn is pretty cool for adding starters. i don't like simorg plus its ur so as an f2p since game release i dont wanna make it. doom eagle is doom eagle and mandatory. also the best link if i wanna get rid of blathnir bc as mentioned in m5 list it puts in work against alot of the meta.

overall: This deck is fire. I do think it's better than zoo rt bc of its turn 2 capabilites. However, i dont think/know if its better than kewl tunes, branded/branded draco, or sky striker. Yes it can compete with them but the other decks just have so much gas and kt at hand and setting ur deck is too broken. rotary to 1 and 1 other hit like ban jj and semi limit mix or smth like that. cue is broken af and annoying. We might suffer a hit due to our engine being so splashable in maliss, sky striker and other decks so i could see chant to 2 or vision to 2. any more than that and its propaganda and targeted hate from konami.

Feel free to comment below or hmu in the mdm discord in the radiant typhoon chat if u have questions!

endboard: double hand rip, doom eagle, fonix/vortex in gy, mandate + at least 1 mst/negate + non engine like droplet fnv etc.