Traptrip Garden

Traptrip Garden — Power Evaluation

Final Score: 56 ± 6 · Confidence: Medium

• Intrinsic: 51 · Deck: 60 · Meta: provisional
• Primary role: Extender · Secondary: Recovery/Recursion

Why it scores here

Traptrip Garden is a Field Spell that adds one extra Traptrix Normal Summon per turn and, for a banish cost, Special Summons a Traptrix from hand or GY, so it converts a board of Traptrix into tempo and recursion rather than into card advantage on its own. It is in all 400 sampled decks and all 3 recorded combos, but it is never a starter or a searched card in those boards, so the high combo power indices (88 to 100) come mostly from the Traptrix partners and are not credited to this card. Its battle protection covers only Insect and Plant monsters and only once per turn, so the interaction score stays low. The card scores in the mid-50s because it is a near-universal, cheap, and reliable enabler inside one archetype, not because of its power on its own.

Axis scores

Calculation

Weight profile: 0.7 Extender + 0.3 Recovery/Recursion. Intrinsic ≈ 51, Deck ≈ 60, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck

Strengths

• Adds one extra Traptrix Normal Summon per turn, which speeds up the archetype's board development
• Banish-to-summon recursion can bring a Traptrix back from the hand or GY, so it creates reusable value
• Appears in every sampled Traptrix deck with a 100 percent partner rate for the core Traptrix monsters
• Cheap to run, a single field slot with no garnet cost

Weaknesses

• Not a starter or searcher, so it needs Traptrix monsters already on hand to be useful
• Battle protection is limited to Insect and Plant monsters and happens once per turn
• Only the Traptrix-specific effects matter, so it has little value outside the archetype
• Field spells are vulnerable to field removal and to Mystical Space Typhoon style cards

Counters / choke points

• Field-destroy effects and Mystical Space Typhoon style removal
• Negating the field effect while the Traptrix monsters on the board stay active

Best use

Extender. Decks: Traptrix. Suggested copies: 1.

Evidence & gaps

• Verified: Card text: extra Normal Summon of a Traptrix once per turn, a Field Spell battle protection for Insect or Plant monsters, and a banish-to-Special-Summon effect from hand or GY, each once per turn; Present in 400 of 400 sampled decks, average 1.94 copies, with a 3-copy maximum; Spell Card, so it cannot be used as material
• Observed: Appears in 3 of 3 recorded combos with an average power index of 96, but starter role, searched-for role, and material role are all 0; Usage statistics show 100 percent inclusion in the main Traptrix homes, with typical copies of 1 to 3; Distinct archetype IDs of 27 map to about 6 distinct archetype names, mostly Traptrix variants
• Inferred: The extra Normal Summon and GY recursion are what allow the Traptrix board to be built quickly; Its value depends on the Traptrix monsters already being in hand or GY
• Data gaps: no banlist token — assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no rulings or metagame sample supplied, so meta power is null only 3 recorded combos, all of them Traptrix boards, so the combo sample is thin only one guide mentions the card