Traptrix Deck #769687 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 35/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 57 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Traptrix Extra Deck pressure (Allomerus, Pinguicula, Rafflesia, TY-PHON, ZEUS) built from Traptrix searchers and Hole traps, with hand traps protecting the board.; Link and Xyz beatdown through Traptrix Sera and Atypus once the board is established.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Traptrix searcher (Pudica, Mantis or Myrmeleo) to fetch a Traptrix or Hole trap, set Traptrip Garden or Holeutea, and hold Ash Blossom and Infinite Impermanence for the first opposing response.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use the hand traps (Ash, Infinite Impermanence, Ghost Mourner, Sneaky C, Artifact Lancea, Droll and Lock Bird) to break the opponent's first summon, then rebuild through Traptrix recursion.
• Recovery: Recover through Traptrix Dionaea and Arachnocampa from the GY and Holeutea's banish-to-summon effect, then re-link or re-Xyz from the remaining board.
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck has no side deck (side count 0), so there is no post-side plan.

Why it scores here

The deck has a reasonable opening engine: Traptrix searchers (Pudica, Mantis, Myrmeleo) reach the core and the searcher-text group hits at least one in 5 cards about 59% of the time (Inferred). Its strongest quality is interaction: 10 hand traps, 18 negation-text cards and 36 removal-text cards give the board layered protection, and the going-second hand-trap profile is the main source of its score. The Extra Deck (8 Link, 7 Xyz across 12 distinct cards) gives real closing options, but there are no recorded boards, so the combo floor, median and ceiling are unmeasured and only structural estimates are possible. Popularity did not earn points: the Traptrix archetype appears in usage stats, but archetype presence was not treated as strength, and card scores were not averaged. The list is illegal (Ash Blossom at 3 copies against a Semi-Limited limit of 2), so the score is capped at 35 and labelled structural-only.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 55, Going First ≈ 50, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 45. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-4); no Side Deck (-3). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural(55) + 0.20*TournamentReliability(45) = 53 before modifiers; modifiers -7 gives 46 uncapped; Illegal cap sets final to 35

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.82 · 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

• Layered interaction: 10 hand traps and 18 negation-text cards protect the board
• Traptrix searchers give a reasonably accessible starter line
• Extra Deck covers several Link and Xyz boss options at 2200 to 3000 ATK
• Traptrix recursion through the GY supports grind

Weaknesses

• Illegal list: Ash Blossom at 3 copies exceeds the Semi-Limited limit of 2
• No side deck (side count 0), so there is no post-side adaptability
• Low main deck compactness: 57 cards with 26 distinct cards and many one-ofs
• No recorded combos, so floor, median and ceiling are unmeasured

Critical choke points

• A single Traptrix searcher (Pudica, Mantis or Myrmeleo) is the main route to the engine on going first
• Hand traps are the main interaction, so a single disruption on the first turn can leave the deck without a second line

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Legality: Ash Blossom at 3 copies vs legal limit 2 (Semi-Limited), so the list is illegal; Main 57, Extra 15, Side 0 counts within the OCG size rules; Card text for all 26 main and 12 extra distinct cards; Usage stats: Traptrix core cards at 50% to 83% inclusion
• Inferred: Searcher-text group access of about 59% in a 5-card opening hand; Hand-trap access of about 70% in a 6-card opening hand going second; Midrange profile fit from interaction density and Extra Deck mix; Interaction quality from negation and removal text
• Provisional: Meta Power is null because no dated metagame sample exists; Matchup and format fit (D13) is neutral pending a dated meta
• 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) exists in YGOVN Meta Power is provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied Data inconsistency: usage statistics marks Traptrix Allomerus, Pinguicula, Atypus, Cularia, Rafflesia, Time Thief Redoer, TY-PHON and ZEUS as in this deck=false, yet the cards list places them in the Extra Deck, so core-card presence is understated and needs a re-export