Traptrix Deck #772318 — Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 30/100 (±8 · Confidence: Low)

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

Legality

Main 58 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status under the rules at evaluation time: Illegal. 1 violation(s).

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz boards built from Traptrix and Ragnaraika Link/Xyz monsters (Ragnaraika Stag Sovereign, Ragnaraika Chain Coils, Traptrix Pinguicula, Traptrix Allomerus), with hand traps protecting the engine; Hole Normal Trap recursion and Traptrix/Ragnaraika graveyard recursion to rebuild after disruption
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a searcher (Traptrix Mantis, Traptrix Myrmeleo, or Traptrix Pudica) to fetch a Traptrix or Hole trap, then extend into a Link or Xyz from the Extra Deck
• Turn 2 (going second): Open with one of the 14 hand traps (Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Infinite Impermanence, Nibiru) to break the opponent's first summon chain, then rebuild through Traptrix searchers and Hole traps
• Recovery: Recurse Traptrix monsters and Hole Normal Traps from the graveyard (Traptrix Dionaea, Traptrix Holeutea, Traptrix Trap Hole Nightmare) and re-enter Link or Xyz boards
• After siding: Not evaluable: the deck runs 0 side cards, so there is no post-side plan

Why it scores here

The deck is scored as a system, not as an average of its cards. Its archetype core has a hypergeometric chance of about 0.79 to appear in a 5-card opening hand, and a single 3-copy starter lands in hand about 0.24 of the time, so the engine is reachable but not reliable on the first turn. Interaction is the strongest part of the list: 14 hand traps, 16 negation-text cards and 28 removal-text cards give dense interaction, which lifts going-second strength and the end-board score. Combo conversion and floor/median output cannot be measured because no recorded boards were supplied, so those scores rest on card text and are Low confidence. The deck is Illegal as submitted (3 copies of Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring against a limit of 2), so the Final score is capped at 30 and labelled theoretical and structural only. Popularity did not earn points: the archetype usage stats confirm the list is real but do not add to the score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Midrange. Structural ≈ 52.7, Going First ≈ 48, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 40. Modifiers: banlist_exposure (-4); illegal_list_cap (-16). Final formula: No reliable metagame: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability = 0.80*52.7 + 0.20*40 = 50.2 before modifiers; modifier -4 applied gives 46.2; Illegal cap applied (theoretical and structural only) gives 30

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.24 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.21 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Dense interaction: 14 hand traps and 28 removal-text cards
• Strong going-second hand-trap coverage (0.83 chance of at least one in hand)
• Large Link and Xyz end boards once the Extra Deck is reached
• Graveyard recursion through Traptrix and Hole cards

Weaknesses

• Illegal as submitted: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring over the copy limit
• No side deck, so no post-side plan
• Starter access on the first turn is low (0.24 for a 3-copy starter)
• 58-card Main Deck with 46 off-archetype copies raises brick risk

Critical choke points

• Engine depends on a small set of searchers (Mantis, Myrmeleo, Pudica) that each appear in hand only about one time in four
• Extra Deck Link and Xyz summons require the right materials in the field

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main Deck 58 cards, Extra Deck 15 cards, Side 0 cards; Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring copy limit violation (3 run, 2 legal); Archetype usage stats: 6 of 15 core cards present (40%); Copy histogram sums to 58 Main Deck cards
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter probability 0.24 and archetype core probability 0.79; Interaction density read from card text (14 hand traps, 28 removal-text cards); Going-second hand-trap probability 0.83; Engine conversion ceiling inferred from text only
• Provisional: Meta Power (null, no dated metagame sample); Matchup and format fit
• Data gaps: No combos supplied: floor, median and ceiling are text-only inference No tournament link: archetype meta-share and pilot match record absent Deck title is null No side deck: post-side performance cannot be scored No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN for this deck Meta Power is provisional without a dated metagame sample