Traptrix Deck #774346 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 60/100 (±6 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Midrange, Toolbox
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 40 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Link and Xyz board presence from Traptrix and Ragnaraika link monsters (Stag Sovereign 3300 ATK, Pinguicula 2500 ATK, Cularia 1800 ATK), protected by Hole Normal Traps and negation.; Traptrix Atypus and Mantis Monk pressure after the opponent's engine is shut off by hand traps.
• Turn 1 (going first): Open Traptrix Mantis or Myrmeleo, Normal Summon for a Traptrix search, and hold Ash Blossom, Ghost Ogre or Droll as the first interaction; link up on T2 with Traptrix Sera or Cularia.
• Turn 2 (going second): Use a hand trap (Ash Blossom, Droll, Ghost Ogre, Maxx C or Infinite Impermanence, present in about 88 percent of six-card hands) on the opponent's first engine, then rebuild a Link board from the Traptrix pool.
• Recovery: Banish Traptrix monsters from the GY to Special Summon Ragnaraika or Traptrix bodies, and recur Hole Normal Traps from the GY through Holeutea and Cularia effects.
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in this list.

Why it scores here

The deck opens a functional plan reliably: 20 Traptrix copies give about a 98 percent chance of at least one archetype card in a five-card opening hand, and three Mantis and Myrmeleo starters give redundant T1 access (Inferred). Its strength is interaction, not combo output: eleven hand traps and roughly eight Hole-based or negating Normal Traps give an 88 percent chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card going-second hand (Inferred from hypergeometric odds and card text), which is the main source of its score. Recovery is supported by GY recursion through Holeutea, Ragnaraika Wisteria and Cularia. Conversion is the weak point: no recorded boards exist, so combo floor and ceiling are text-only estimates, and the Extra Deck carries off-archetype and conditionally summoned Link and Xyz monsters that dilute the engine. Popularity and archetype usage confirm the list is real, but they did not add points, and the score comes from the system rather than from averaging individual card scores.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 64, Going First ≈ 61, Going Second ≈ 65, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: Engine conflicts (-2); Conditional Extra Deck dependence (-2); Hand-trap interaction density (1). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability + ContextModifiers (Meta provisional): 0.80*64.05 + 0.20*58 - 3 = 59.84, rounded to 60

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

• Archetype core at 20 copies gives near-certain access to a Traptrix starter in any five-card hand
• Eleven hand traps and about eight negating or removal Trap cards give layered interaction across both going-first and going-second
• Recursion from the GY through Holeutea, Wisteria and Cularia supports grind
• Stag Sovereign and Pinguicula give high-ATK closing bodies

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Engine dilution from three sub-archetypes and off-archetype Link monsters
• TY-PHON and ZEUS are conditionally summoned, with two Level 12 cards and no reliable alt route
• Fifteen Trap cards and a high share of reactive cards reduce proactive threat density

Critical choke points

• Setting Normal Traps requires a Set turn, so the first-turn Hole plan can be delayed
• Link and Xyz summons depend on specific Link Material pairs from a limited set of Level 4 Traptrix and Ragnaraika bodies

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main deck 40 cards, Extra 15 cards, Side 0; legal under Master Duel size rules; Maxx C Limited 1 of 1 copy; Droll and Lock Bird Semi-Limited 2 of 2 copies; other cards Unlimited; Copy histogram 1x17, 2x4, 3x5; Extra Deck link 11, xyz 4; Card text and stats from evidence excerpts
• Inferred: Hypergeometric starter and hand-trap probabilities (0.338, 0.976, 0.876); Control profile structural estimate; Interaction density read from card text (D7 82); Engine conflict and conditional Extra Deck modifiers
• Provisional: Meta Power is null; Matchup and format fit (D13 50) without a dated meta sample
• 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 rate Meta Power is Provisional without a dated metagame sample Usage statistics mark several Extra Deck cards (Traptrix Sera, Rafflesia, Pinguicula, Cularia, Atypus, Jasmine, Stag Sovereign, Skeletal Soldier, Mantis Monk, Picofalena, ZEUS, TY-PHON) as in this deck false, which conflicts with the cards list where all of them have zone extra; treated as a flag error and the cards list is used Side Deck is empty, so no post-side evidence No Side Deck evaluation possible beyond a count of 0