Traptrix Deck #756348 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 34/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

• Primary strategy: Midrange
• Secondary strategies: Toolbox, Stun
• Format: ocg

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boss monsters (Ragnaraika Stag Sovereign, Ragnaraika Chain Coils, Ragnaraika Mantis Monk) built from Traptrix and Ragnaraika Insect/Plant/Reptile bodies, with Mitsurugi Ritual as an alternate ritual route; Ritual boss monsters (Ame no Murakumo no Mitsurugi, Futsu no Mitama no Mitsurugi) when the Mitsurugi ritual chain resolves
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Traptrix Myrmeleo or Traptrip Garden, Normal Summon a Traptrix body, use Pudica or Myrmeleo searches to convert into a Link or Xyz boss, and hold Infinite Impermanence or Ash Blossom for the first response (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird, Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence in the six-card hand to blunt the opponent's first board, then rebuild through Traptrix Sera and Ragnaraika link summons (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recover through Ragnaraika the Evil Seed and Ragnaraika Armored Lizard from the GY, plus Traptrix Holeutea and Pre-Preparation of Rites as searchers (Inferred from card text)
• After siding: No side deck is registered, so no post-side plan exists in this export; the deck cannot adapt between games (Verified from legality data)

Why it scores here

The structural read is the only read this evaluation can support: the list is Illegal because it runs three Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi and one King of the Feral Imps, both Forbidden in OCG, so it does not receive a normal contextual score. Within the system, the Traptrix core (Myrmeleo x3, Holeutea, Dionaea, Pudica) gives a reasonable chance of a live engine on turn one (P(at least one Myrmeleo in a 5-card hand) ≈ 0.34; archetype-core group ≈ 0.85), and seven hand traps plus Ash Blossom, Maxx C and Droll & Lock Bird give it real going-second interaction (P(at least one hand trap in a 6-card hand) ≈ 0.71). Offense comes from Ragnaraika Link bosses, but the 40-card main mixes three archetypes (Traptrix 15, Mitsurugi 13, Ragnaraika 8 by name) with 23 singleton slots, which weakens the core and raises brick risk. No combo boards, tournament record or guides exist in the export, so floor, median and ceiling are text-only inferences and the deck's popularity earned no points. The deck was scored as a system and not by averaging its card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 47, Going First ≈ 45, Going Second ≈ 55, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-11). Final formula: Theoretical only: 0.80*Structural(47) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(40) = 45 pre-modifier; modifiers -11 → 34. Illegal status (Forbidden cards run) means this is a structural-only read, not a normal contextual score. Meta Power is null (Provisional).

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.34 · 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

• Traptrix core is consistent enough to open a live engine on turn one (about one in three hands with Myrmeleo, about 85% with any archetype-core card)
• Seven hand traps and three going-second answers (Ash Blossom, Maxx C, Droll & Lock Bird) support a strong going-second plan
• Ragnaraika Link bosses (Stag Sovereign ATK 3300, Chain Coils ATK 2900) give high end-board stats

Weaknesses

• Illegal as built: three Forbidden Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi and one Forbidden King of the Feral Imps
• Three archetype clusters (Traptrix, Mitsurugi, Ragnaraika) share 40 main slots, with only 27.3% exact-archetype purity
• No side deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Lots of singleton slots (23 of 30 distinct main cards) raise brick risk

Critical choke points

• Ritual monsters depend on Mitsurugi Ritual and tribute Reptiles; the Forbidden Habakiri is a Ritual boss that cannot be run as built
• Traptrix engine opens on Myrmeleo / Traptrip Garden, so a single disruption to these early searches stalls the route

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Illegal status: Ame no Habakiri no Mitsurugi (3 copies) and King of the Feral Imps (1 copy) are Forbidden in OCG; Main size 40 and Extra size 15 are within limits; Side size 0; Archetype purity 27.3% exact-name; 40 off-archetype copies; No side deck registered
• Inferred: Opening-hand probabilities from the hypergeometric draw table; Going-second hand-trap coverage ≈ 0.71; Structural dimension scores D1–D14 from card text and composition; Recovery plan and going-first/second plans from card text
• Provisional: Meta Power (null); Matchup coverage (D13) without a dated meta sample; Tournament reliability estimate (40)
• 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, going-second, matchup or brick rates Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Side deck absent, so post-side plan cannot be assessed