EARTH
4Traptrix Atrax
Archetype:
Traptrix
ATK:
1800
DEF:
1000
View:
5377
This card is unaffected by the effects of "Hole" Normal Trap Cards. You can activate "Hole" Normal Trap Cards from your hand. The activation and effects of Normal Trap Cards activated on your side of the field cannot be negated.
Traptrix Atrax — Power Evaluation
Final Score: 58 ± 8 · Confidence: Medium
- Intrinsic: 56.3 · Deck: 58.5 · Meta: provisional
- Primary role: Utility · Secondary: Material body
Why it scores here
Traptrix Atrax is a Level 4 Earth Insect whose printed text does two things: it cannot be affected by 'Hole' Normal Traps, and it lets you activate 'Hole' from hand. Its score comes mainly from being a live, single-copy body in a shell that runs it in all 400 sampled decks, with no garnet cost. The 3 recorded boards it appears in average a power index of 96, but no board records it as a starter, searched, material or payoff piece, so that high index does not show what Atrax itself converts. Its 1800 ATK and 1000 DEF earn no points.
Axis scores
| Axis | Score | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Accessibility | 70 | Present in 400/400 sampled decks and 3/3 recorded combos, but no searcher route is in the evidence, so the hand access is inferred from deck counts (observed). |
| Combo & Conversion | 45 | Appears in 3/3 boards with an average power index of 96, yet combo role is empty and no starter or payoff share is recorded, so attribution is unclear (observed, inferred). |
| Resource Economy | 30 | The card text grants no draw, search, refuel or advantage, and no combo record shows net card gain tied to it (verified). |
| Effect & Interaction | 40 | Its hand activation of 'Hole' and its protection of your own Normal Traps from negation are interaction-adjacent, but it is not itself a negate or removal (verified, inferred). |
| Material Utility | 50 | Level 4 Earth Insect is a usable material body, but no material role record exists and the text says nothing about material value when its effect is negated (inferred). |
| Resilience & Flexibility | 60 | Immune to 'Hole' Normal Traps only, which covers the mirror-match Hole interaction but not other interruption (verified, inferred). |
| Deck-Building Efficiency | 80 | Average 1.11 copies per deck with 368 of 400 decks at one copy, and no garnet or lock text, so it is cheap to run (verified, observed). |
Calculation
Weight profile: Utility / no clear role (default), single role, no blend. Intrinsic ≈ 56.3, Deck ≈ 58.5, Meta = provisional. Modifiers: none. Final formula: 0.40*Intrinsic + 0.60*Deck
Strengths
- Live in essentially every sampled Traptrix deck, one copy each
- Immune to Hole, so it survives the common mirror-match Hole interaction
- Hand activation of Hole is a low-cost enabler for the Traptrix shell
- Cheap to run with no garnet or lock text
Weaknesses
- Text contains no direct search, draw, refuel or negation of its own
- No recorded starter, searched or material role in the combo data
- Value depends on the Traptrix shell and Hole being present
- Its contribution to the 96 average power index cannot be separated from its partners
Counters / choke points
- Non-Hole traps and effects that do not depend on Hole's activation are unaffected by its immunity
- Anything that negates the effect of the Traptrix body does not remove its material value, which is unverified
Best use
Single-copy Hole-enabling Level 4 body in Traptrix shells. Decks: Traptrix (archetype 623), Traptrix (archetype 1737), Ragnaraika. Suggested copies: 1.
Evidence & gaps
- Verified: Card text: unaffected by Hole Normal Traps; can activate Hole from hand; own-side Normal Trap activations cannot be negated; Present in 400/400 sampled decks, avg 1.11 copies; Appears in 3/3 recorded combos, average power index 96
- Observed: Gameplay type 7 in 79.2% of decks; Top partners Myrmeleo 98% and Dionaea 97.8%
- Inferred: Hand access is reliable through deck saturation rather than a verified searcher; Material value holds up when the body is effect-negated
- Data gaps: no banlist token; assumed 3 copies (unlimited) no usage statistics (StatisticsCard); inclusion inferred from deck sample only combo combo role empty on all 3 examples, so starter/material/payoff attribution is unknown no searcher or material route data in evidence no rulings for the Hole-from-hand interaction