Trap Hole Deck #588796 — Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 23/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo, Toolbox
• Format: tcg

Legality

Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Illegal. 4 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion/Xyz boards from Dinomorphia and Evolzar Extra Deck monsters, backed by trap-based negation and floodgates to stop the opponent's plan.; Trap Hole and Dinomorphia traps as a second layer of removal and recovery, with Supreme King Z-ARC as a pendulum finisher.
• Turn 1 (going first): Set Dinomorphia Domain or a hand trap and wait for an opponent's summon, then use Pot of Duality to find a Dinomorphia engine piece. Full-combo boards are not recorded, so this is a theoretical line.
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Evenly Matched, Solemn Strike, Dinomorphia Intact) for the opponent's turn and negate their first engine, then convert with Fusion or Xyz monsters.
• Recovery: Dinomorphia Therizia, Dinomorphia Diplos and Dinomorphia Alert recur from the GY, and Dinomorphia Kentregina and Stealthbergia provide some protection, so a broken board can partly rebuild.
• After siding: No side deck is present (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan. A best-of-3 deck would need to be rebuilt.

Why it scores here

The deck is Illegal in the TCG format: Forbidden cards (Anti-Spell Fragrance, Rivalry of Warlords, Crystal Wing Synchro Dragon) are in the Main/Extra deck, and Droll & Lock Bird is run at 3 copies against a Limited limit of 1. Per the legality rule, the score is capped and labelled structural-only. The structural read (36.6) comes from the system: a large trap count (41 Trap Cards) gives many negations and floodgates, but there are few searchers and only 2 non-Trap-heavy engine lines, so starter access and brick risk are weak. Interaction is the strongest area (18 negation-text cards, 6 hand traps), while the Dinomorphia and Evolzar Extra Deck monsters carry the win condition with no recorded combos to confirm it. The deck has no side deck, which lowers adaptability and format fit. Popularity was not credited: the Trap Hole archetype usage stats show core cards (Dark Hole, Raigeki, Upstart Goblin) that this list does not run, and card scores were not averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control primary, Combo secondary (approximately 80/20 by weight). Structural ≈ 36.6, Going First ≈ 35, Going Second ≈ 38, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 30. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-10); no_side_deck (-2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) = 35.3, then modifiers total -12 = 23; illegal deck, structural-only reading

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.25 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Broad negation and floodgate suite (18 negation-text cards, 6 hand traps)
• Dinomorphia recursion gives some recovery after disruption
• Extra Deck has strong 3000–4000 ATK finishers and multiple fusion/xyz options

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Forbidden and over-limit cards
• No side deck
• Low compactness: 41 Trap Cards with 71 off-archetype copies
• Weak starter access: most engines need 2+ specific cards

Critical choke points

• Dinomorphia Domain and Dinomorphia Frenzy as the engine link to the Extra Deck fusion monsters
• Solemn-family negations as the only defence against a going-second opponent's first play

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: 3 Forbidden cards and Droll & Lock Bird over the Limited limit (legality block); Main 56 / Extra 15 / Side 0; main is within the 40–60 range, extra is at the 15 cap; Archetype purity: 0% exact name, 71 off-archetype copies
• Inferred: Starter P(≥1 in 5) ≈ 0.25 per 3-copy card, so live T1 engines are unlikely; Hand-trap dead-hand rate is high with 41 traps; Interaction density is high from negation text and floodgates
• Provisional: Meta Power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format-fit dimensions (no tournament link)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied; combo floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference no tournament link; archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry (going-first/second, matchup, brick/starter rates) no side deck, so no post-side evidence Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample