Traptrix Deck #750819 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 62/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Stun, Midrange
• Format: duel-links

Legality

Main 28 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Land a Link or Xyz finisher (Underworld Goddess, Super Starslayer TY-PHON, Traptrix Pinguicula) after the opponent's board has been stripped by Hole-trap and hand-trap interaction.; Traptrix Atypus and Cularia pressure through Normal Trap recursion and Hole Normal Traps; no recorded boards confirm either line.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon Traptrip Garden or Traptrix Pudica (Pudica searches Garden), extend through Myrmeleo or Dionaea, and hold Void Trap Hole, Floodgate Trap Hole or Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare for the opponent's first summon.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Nibiru, Ghost Belle or Infinite Impermanence as hand traps on the opponent's first summon or effect, then rebuild through Holeutea and the Traptrix monsters in the Graveyard.
• Recovery: Rebuild from the Graveyard: Dionaea and Holeutea recover Traptrix monsters from the GY, Holeutea can be banished from the GY to Special Summon a Traptrix, and Sera and Pinguicula can add or reuse Traptrix cards.
• After siding: No Side Deck is run (side_count 0), so there is no post-side plan in the list as built; Duel Links is evaluated here without a sideboarding step.

Why it scores here

The deck opens reliably: the three-copy Traptrip Garden, Traptrix Pudica and Traptrix Myrmeleo package gives roughly 46% odds of at least one of them in a 5-card opening hand, and the archetype core group reaches about 99.9% for at least one archetype card. Interaction is the main strength, with 8 hand traps, 7 negation-text cards, 22 removal-text cards and a Floodgate Trap Hole, which earns the end-board and going-second scores. Interruption resilience and resources come from Graveyard recursion (Dionaea, Holeutea, Sera) and six searcher-text cards with about 73% odds of hitting at least one in the opening hand. Closing power is moderate: the Link and Xyz finishers are strong but no recorded boards exist to confirm how often they convert. The score comes from consistency, interaction and recursion on the system, not from Traptrix's popularity or from averaging individual card scores; no tournament or matchup data supports a meta claim.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61.8, Going First ≈ 60, Going Second ≈ 66, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 60. Modifiers: engine compactness (2); banlist exposure (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.46 · 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

• Three-copy starter package (Garden, Pudica, Myrmeleo) with high opening odds
• Eight hand traps and 22 removal-text cards give layered interaction
• Graveyard recursion through Dionaea, Holeutea and Sera
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (about 0.90 for one or more in six cards)

Weaknesses

• No recorded boards, so conversion and median output are unmeasured
• Hole and Normal Trap dependence risks dead draws
• Only 8 of 24 usage-stat core cards are present; the list deviates from the archetype standard
• No side deck and no post-side plan

Critical choke points

• Normal Trap density for Hole recursion and Holeutea lines
• Single-copy finishers in the Extra Deck if Goddess or TY-PHON is not drawn

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 28, Extra 9, Side 0 within Duel Links size rules; Abyss Dweller is Limited at 1 copy, legal; Usage stats: 8 of 24 core cards present (33.3%); Traptrix Pudica, Garden, Holeutea, Myrmeleo copies confirmed in the list
• Inferred: Opening-hand odds for starters (hypergeometric); Hand-trap coverage for going-second; Resilience from Graveyard recursion; Finisher conversion from card text
• Provisional: Meta power (no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit; Post-side plan (no Side Deck)
• 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 for going-first/second, matchup, or brick/starter rates Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample No Side Deck, so D12 is structural only Usage stats show many archetype core cards absent from this list; deviation rationale unknown