Traptrix Deck #773647 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 65/100 (±5 · Confidence: Medium)

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

Legality

Main 30 / Extra 9 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Out-grind with Traptrix Link/Xyz loops and Hole traps, then close with Pinguicula, Atypus, TY-PHON, or Underworld Goddess.; Going-second Kaiju/Nibiru plus Extra Deck removal into a simplified game.
• Turn 1 (going first): Normal Summon a Traptrix searcher, search Traptrip Garden or a Hole trap, set 1-2 traps, and build Sera/Rafflesia/Pinguicula when available.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use Fuwalos, Droll, Kaiju, or Nibiru to slow or break the opponent's board, then resolve a Traptrix engine and remove remaining threats with S:P, Underworld Goddess, or Atypus.
• Recovery: Recover through Dionaea and Holeutea Graveyard effects, then use Cularia and Sera to re-set Hole traps and Pinguicula to search follow-up.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered; in a best-of-3 context this list has no demonstrated post-side configuration.

Why it scores here

Traptrix is a legal 30-card Duel Links trap-control list whose main engine is dense: 11 Traptrix monsters give roughly 92% to open at least one in a five-card hand, with seven searcher-text copies and Traptrip Garden backing up the Normal Summon. Its realistic median is a Traptrix body plus one searched or set Hole trap, with Sera/Rafflesia adding protection and recursion; the deck is not a high-ceiling combo build, and no recorded boards exist, so floor/median/ceiling are text-inferred. It gains most of its structural value from the grind loop (Sera, Cularia, Holeutea, Pinguicula) and the breadth of reactive traps, but loses points going second, on dead reactive cards, on Extra Deck choke points, and because no Side Deck or post-side plan is registered. The score is a system score, not an average of card power; usage share and Traptrix popularity did not earn points, and matchup/meta power remains provisional without a dated metagame sample.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 67, Going First ≈ 72, Going Second ≈ 58, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 64. Modifiers: Engine compactness (2); Hard-garnet burden (-2); Extra Deck choke point (-1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional)

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 0.92 · key two-card combo ≈ 0.38 · full-brick estimate ≈ 0.07 (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• High density of 3-of Traptrix starters and searchers keeps the engine live in most opening hands.
• Strong grind loop through Sera, Cularia, Holeutea and Pinguicula.
• Broad reactive trap suite including Floodgate, Time-Space, Break Off and Traptrix Nightmare, with Rafflesia as a Hole-trap toolbox.
• Extra Deck includes generic removal and closeout options such as S:P, Underworld Goddess and TY-PHON.
• Legal, compact Duel Links list with no restricted-card exposure.

Weaknesses

• The trap-first shell is much weaker going second and lacks a reliable turn-two board breaker beyond Kaiju/Nibiru and Extra Deck removal.
• Several reactive cards (Droll, Nibiru, Kaiju, Fuwalos) can be poor going first, increasing dead-hand risk.
• No Side Deck and no post-side plan are present in the evidence.
• Dependence on the Normal Summon and on Extra Deck names like Sera and Rafflesia creates choke points.
• No combo evidence, no Duel Links skill data, and no dated metagame sample; power is inferred rather than measured.

Critical choke points

• Normal Summon is answered before a Traptrix search resolves.
• Sera or Rafflesia is removed before the grind loop starts.
• Backrow removal clears set Hole traps before the opponent commits.
• No Side Deck means no demonstrated best-of-3 adaptation.
• Duel Links skill is not supplied, so an important power component is unknown.

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Deck is legal in Duel Links: 30 Main, 9 Extra, 0 Side, no violations.; Card text and banlist statuses for all resolved cards are present.; Composition is 19 Effect Monsters, 8 Traps and 3 Spells in Main; Extra is 6 Link and 3 Xyz.; Usage statistics contain 24 rows and show Holeutea, Pudica, Traptrip Garden and other Traptrix cards as high-inclusion cards.
• Observed: No parseable combo boards were supplied (combo data total 0).; Only one guide mention is attached, with no strategic sections.
• Inferred: Opening-starter probability and brick estimates are hypergeometric inferences.; The trap-control plan, grind loop, going-second weakness and choke points are inferred from card text.; Extra Deck utility and interaction quality are inferred from card text, not measured boards.
• Provisional: Meta Power and matchup/format fit are provisional because no dated metagame sample or tournament link exists.; Post-side performance is provisional because no Side Deck is registered.
• Data gaps: No combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference. No tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent. No win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN (going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates) — those signals are Inferred or Unknown. Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied. No Duel Links skill supplied; skill effects are not evaluated. Usage_statistics 'in this deck' flags conflict with the resolved Extra Deck list for several cards; the actual resolved card list was used.