Traptrix Deck #768806 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±10 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 2 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Traptrix board pressure: Traptrix Allomerus, Pinguicula, Atypus and Rafflesia convert a Traptrix board into attacks or removal (Inferred from card text); Utopia / Divine Arsenal / Underworld Goddess end-boards, backed by Lava Golem and Nibiru as high-ATK finishers (Inferred from card text)
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a searcher (Traptrix Mantis or Myrmeleo), search a Traptrix or Hole Normal Trap, and protect the starter with Infinite Impermanence and Ash Blossom (Inferred)
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold hand traps (Ash Blossom, Ghost Belle, Effect Veiler, Ghost Mourner, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to answer the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Traptrix recursion (Inferred)
• Recovery: Recur Traptrix monsters from the GY and reuse Normal Trap recursion through Traptrix Dionaea and Holeutea (Inferred from card text; no recorded boards)
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (0 cards)

Why it scores here

The score comes from the system: the deck reliably opens a Traptrix searcher line (about 0.71 chance of at least one archetype core card in a 5-card opening hand, Inferred), protects it with a dense layer of hand traps and negations (14 hand-trap cards, about 0.83 chance of at least one in a 6-card going-second hand), and has recursion and Hole-trap follow-ups to keep going after a disruption. It is not built to win through combo conversion, since no recorded boards exist and the combo floor and median are text-only inferences. The deck has no side deck, so its post-side adaptability is scored at the floor. Popularity did not earn points: Traptrix is a common archetype, and its usage statistics only confirm that this is a real list. Card scores were not averaged into the result. The deck is Illegal (Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring is run 3 times against a 2-copy limit), so the final score is capped at 35 and the evaluation is structural only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange only; Stun noted as secondary, weights not blended. Structural ≈ 55.4, Going First ≈ 56, Going Second ≈ 60, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 50. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-6); empty_side_deck (-3). Final formula: Final = 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers = 0.80*55.4 + 0.20*50 - 9 = 45.3, then capped at 35 because the deck is Illegal (copy-limit violation). Meta provisional.

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.71 · 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

• Dense hand-trap and negation layer (14 hand traps, 21 negation-text cards) with multiple independent answers
• Accessible Traptrix searcher and core package (archetype core P(>=1 in hand 5) ≈ 0.71)
• Layered end-board interaction: Solemn Judgment, Lightning Storm, Trap Holes, Raigeki
• Extra Deck covers Link and Xyz access without a single point of failure

Weaknesses

• Illegal copy count: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring run 3 vs a limit of 2
• No side deck; no post-side plan
• Low archetype purity (32%): many off-archetype Holes and staples dilute the engine
• No recorded combo boards, guides, or tournament data; ceiling and median are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• Ash Blossom copy limit must be fixed before the deck is legal
• Traptrix searchers (9 copies) are the only route to the core engine; Traptrix Mantis and Myrmeleo are single points for the opening line
• Hole/Traptrix recursion depends on Normal Traps being in the GY

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0; Main and Extra sizes are legal for OCG; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy limit violation (3 vs 2 Semi-Limited); Harpie's Feather Duster and Solemn Judgment are Limited and run 1 copy each (legal); Archetype purity 31.9% (23 of 72 archetype-tagged copies)
• Inferred: Core P(>=1 in hand 5) ≈ 0.71 and hand-trap P(>=1 in hand 6) ≈ 0.83 from hypergeometric estimates; Traptrix searcher lines are the main engine; Interaction density is high based on negation and removal text; Going-second plan leans on hand traps
• Provisional: Meta power and matchup fit (no dated metagame sample); Tournament reliability (no win-rate telemetry)
• 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, or OTK rates) No side deck: post-side performance cannot be assessed Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied