- This card has several counterparts:
- "Dust Tornado" was the first, being a Normal Trap Card with the same activated effect.
- "Mystical Wind Typhoon", "Twister", "Tornado" and "Double Cyclone" are direct downgrades, all of which were released while this card was Limited or Semi-Limited.
- "Cosmic Cyclone" and "Twin Twisters" are direct upgrades, both released after this card became Unlimited.
- "Nobleman of Extermination", "Night Beam" and "Galaxy Cyclone" can be considered Normal Spell Card counterparts, each of them only able to target 1 Set Spell/Trap with their activated effects.
- This card also has an Xyz Monster counterpart: "Tornado Dragon".
- This card has been reprinted twenty-eight times, more than any other card.
- As it has been reprinted in many Structure Decks, most of its reprints are as a Common.
- Many players joke that "MST negates", due to beginners often mistakenly believing that destroying a card negates its effect, and thus that "Mystical Space Typhoon" can be chained to an activated Spell or Trap Card to negate its effect.
- However, it is possible to activate "Mystical Space Typhoon" in Chain to the activation of or the activation of the effect of a Continuous, Equip, or Field Spell Card or Continuous Trap Card to cause that activation to resolve without effect.
- This was the first Spell Card ever to be released as Ghost Rare.
- Additionally, counting both the TCG and OCG, this card has been printed in every rarity besides Holographic Rare.
- This is one of the few cards that are known by two different names in the Spanish TCG, along with "Twin-Headed Behemoth" and "Blackwing Armed Wing".
- This is one of only two Spell cards to have appeared in all Yu-Gi-Oh! movies, along with "Polymerization".