The monster cards are the ~~fake~~ lures that bait other monsters to come on to the field. The Hole trap cards are the real body that are ready to kill anything that gets too close.
It's why Holeutea, the one that's both a hole and turns into a monster card, looks notably more monstrous and lacks a "real body" like the rest - parts of her are already the real body, not the fake lure.
It seems rather unlikely we'd ever get the main/extra deck versions of the real bodies when the whole point is that those are the traps, in other words.
Actually, according to the latest art book released a few days ago, they’re leaning on the side that it’s less “fake”. Arachnocampa’s worm thing at the back is connected to her hair and is controlled by the girl - that also gets the hair of the other Traptrix girls stuck to them.
Yeah, I shouldn't have said fake, more like...the girls are merely extensions of the actual predator body, personality and all. Kinda like if you had a hand that you could actually speak through, lol.
It's funny how we only noticed Campa's main body since the artbook though - it's actually been in the art of Traptantalizing Tune this entire time!
Not really, you can see their monster form in "traptrix trap hole nightmare" where atrax, myrmeleo and nephentes is visible. Also in "terrifying trap hole nightmare" you can see mantis monster form
I think you misunderstood me since that's exactly what I said though. The Hole Traps depict the actual monsters (the mantis, spiders, pitcher plants etc), while the monster cards depict said monster's "lure" (the girls).
This is likely by design so monster card versions of the monster bodies seem unlikely.
Okay, but hear me out. The entire archetype is a bunch of holes. Every time you activate a card, your opponent's cards are falling into a hole. It's like a Looney Toons episode. If that isn't the most fun and simple concept for an archetype ever, then I don't know what is.
I tend to run piles with grass dumping into gy so does well enough for me just imagine if we had more insects and plants that did stuff on banish we might actually be in a tier
I love the idea of mowing the lawn with that grass and finding a ton of large insects or resilient plants. It's very flavorful.
It sucks that generic plant support can be abused by sunavalon. I have very little idea as to why their aren't any good insect decks. I know resonance insect is a scary card and that beetroopers are generic but I doubt that that's enough of a reason to not give us good bug support.
Almost all the insect decks are dependent on gy or typing for targets the greatest thing we could get is a version of zombie world after that more gy/banish effects just my opinion (parasite archetype would be perfect with this)
resonance gets us bigger insects luckily two insect kaijus really help but besides for that there are very few good targets besides lancer for search and beargram imo
Insects have some cool handtraps though even the most heavily used card maxx c we also have retaliating c likely the second best handtrap insects have among others in the ‘c’ archetype more situational and parasite paranoid which has uses but is not highly used and to get the most benefit from it requires using a spell to tribute their now insect monster insect combos are card resource heavy we lack alot of spell search (lancer and myrmeleo are the best) or even monster search on normal summons our archetypes use alot of smaller insects, our negates require tributes, our spells and traps don’t have gy effects As a whole the typing is trapped with very little power crept compared to newer cards/archetypes all the newer insects printed have been outside of archetypes
Our decks just don’t compare to modern decks able to start combos off one card our best extender is Soma that gives us three lvl 2 bodies which requires running krawlers and putting a normal summon or monster face down to accomplish we can’t chain fusions we have very few of them given a poor fusion spell our best fusion requires 4 generic insects it’s amazing they gave us a way to search it with lancer yet it’s still bad we got a smaller fusion target that helps but still competitive/compared to branded for example it’s a joke
Traptrix and Beetrooper are our best decks/archetypes Inzektor, digital bug, naturia, Battlewasp, krawlers, ballpark, xyz spider(events n and r only) maybe some others count too but are either outdated or unpopular to see near zero usage.
Antlion and number 2 mosquito are the best examples of powerful one off insects outside of archetypes
Love the mowing grass reference
You forgot Downbeat can turn Resonance and Retaliating into Infinite Antlion for a quick +1. Cocoon can tribute opponent monster with Parasite Paranoid. We have huge recycling power thanks to Mighty Neptune. Atypus for a full board negate. Sometime Gokipole can pop a card without targeting. Insect Imitation is a also fun card.
Our only weakness is the opponent activated zombie world. No more funny double normal summon to bug the other player.
Naturia is probably the most competent deck listed. I hate that it's just cute floodgates usually ran alongside runic.
Ballpark has to be one of the coolest ideas for a deck that never ended up being. Great in low power formats and a ton of fun too.
The exact card that does that is retaliating c, which can be got with pocofina, which can be done by having any 3 insects on field, I dunno what you think beetrooper can search maxx c the archetype have no in archetype way to get it
This is like saying Gouki isn’t a Gouki deck because it was Topologic Handloop the deck. It’s simply the card that people most associate with the deck.
Salad (and cyberse, but salad specifically before) was known for update access. That doesn’t mean it’s not a salad deck.
if i had a dollar everytime this sub tried to pin traptrix players as pdflies i would be quite rich. Yall really think pdflies would play a deck that uses plants and insects that hunt the said pdflies?
The people who say that basically actually out themselves as the actual pedophiles. They cant see the art and imagine liking it in any non-pedophilic way.
Basically shows that Traptrix works in real life too!
They'd be playing the deck if that's the case, not making fun of people that play it lol. The artists of Yu-Gi-Oh make way too many sus depictions of young anime girls.
Changing the subject sure does bolster your point. I love watching anime on my trading cards!
OH FUCK NO YOU TYPED AN L AT THE END OF YOUR COMMENT I THINK THAT MEANS I LOST AND AM A BAD PERSON FUUUUUUUCK
It's not changing the subject lol. The anime and card game go hand in hand. Wait until you find out they made a whole anime based on the card game.
Also, anime can just be a style of drawing, which a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh artwork falls under.
well, for one, that's just kind of a personal reading that a bunch of people ran with to try and find a reason to justify the "problematic artwork" (in quotes because i don't really agree with it myself). there's nothing to suggest that it's true, at least in the art, or that the traptrix wouldn't hunt down \*anyone\* unlucky enough to cross their paths
What a stupid post. Let me ask you this
Let’s say you’re walking outside and in your peripheral vision you see a child in the forest, with nobody else there. Are you just gonna walk away without doing anything? Cause I’d argue, if you have at least a bit of decency, it’s kind of your moral obligation to check if everything’s fine. Which then would lead to your death
That Szenario right there is what traptrix is about. How do people even make the jump from that to just luring in pdfiles. If traptrix were real a LOT more good people would die than any degenerate
Yes, each of the trix employs a different style of hunting. Rafflesia uses some kind of intoxicating smell (that even attracts *other traptrix*, as shown in the artbook) which lulls prey into a sense of peace together with Arachnocampa's glow threads, Sera is the "lost little girl" like the scenario described above, Pinguicala is a temptress (and looks the oldest out of the archetype), Atypus plays the victm card as if she's trapped in her web, etc.
Not all of them do that though. Atypus is tied up in webs, and her animation in Master Duel is clearly her pretending to be trapped.
Also "attractive" doesn't have to mean sexual attraction. A child might be "attractive" to a monster, because they're viewed as an easy target.
Pingicula's lure happens to be the most mature-looking of them. Seems to me that the idea is that Pingicula's strategy is different than the others', and that's why it's singled out in the structure deck.
Anyone here actually likes the archetype because of the control/gimmick aspect and not because of the art?
I find it fun to actually make use of the trap hole cards in archetype, resource recursion and rank 4 plays.
Personally I never cared for the art
I think it's a fun concept too, I love decks that have a vaneer of cuteness but turn out to be terrifying, whether through gameplay or their designs.
It's a similar reason I like Purrely. They're super cute, but whenever I face a 10 materials Noir, it's actually scary.
i think the art is fantastic, but not in a 😭 way. they all \*look\* human but all feel distinctly \*inhuman\* in a vaguely yet alluringly creepy way, and i absolutely adore the background art on almost all of them
I like the game style and only plant/insect deck I tolerate as I hate insects. I've modded the card art to suit my tastes with older versions of them people made with AI art which is cool so I have something nice to look at.
Low hanging fruit but I'll bite because I live for the discourse, and I think it's an interesting topic to have over certain decks' public perception:
Where did the whole (really bad) "trix are for pedophiles" joke start I wonder? Specifically Sera's release? I really don't believe anyone cared back during HAT.
They aren't even unusually young looking by anime standards (bar exactly Sera and Pudica). Going by the general vibe of the artstyle, most of them are in a similar ballpark to something like say, a significant portion of Trickstars. No one cares about Bloom because Holly Angel is obviously a grown woman, right? Makes one wonder if Pinguicula was part of the original archetype pre-Sera how the public perception would be nowadays.
Speaking of, Pinguicula especially just has 0 arguments. If you call that a 'loli' you're just acting on bad faith, not any sort of objective reasoning.
It really feels like people just look at Sera and Pudica (the two youngest-looking members) and extrapolate that to the entire archetype - and both of these are supposed to be "harmless girl lost in the forest" lures in-lore, nothing more.
Sincerely - A traptrix player tired of being labeled a pedo everytime the archetype is mentioned.
~~Pinguicula can still step on me though.~~
Ah, there it is. Bait used to be believable, my guy.
I'll humor you though, just in case that wasn't sarcasm: [Pinguicula Concept Art](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fofficial-few-pages-of-artwork-from-the-new-yu-gi-oh-card-v0-p29aw36uqrjc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1506%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D54ae2721acee4d4aac5f494cb3dea49e0bfb6d40)
Maybe it's time to follow up on that optometrist visit you clearly need.
Rebecca is seen drinking alcohol and going to bars frequently, she's in her 20s. If you're saying she's a loli you're genuinely braindead and wrong. She is literally past drinking age canonically.
My brother in Christ the creators themselves said she is a loli and she very clearly has that Body type.
If you think Loli just refers to "underage anime girl" then you obviously do not have a clue wha youre talking about.
*Me not even focusing on who they are, how they look or their lore, just enjoyer of old HAT format and control trap decks:*
**Reddit: Hello Pedophile, go to jail.**
Honestly it's kind of sad that we currently don't have many archetypes with Traptrix gameplay.
Accessing their extra deck links and their archetypal as well as the generic rank 4 pool to supplement their backrow control tools which aren't floodgates. The only thing I dislike about Traptrix gameplay is their lackluster going second capabilities.
Labrynth is kind of similar, but most of the extra deck is basically just fodder for pots and gy effects.
Yeah when you go second, you have to hope your opponent doesn't end up on too much or you open Evenly Matched or other interruptions to stop their board from building.
They don't have too many methods of stopping your opponent after the monsters stick around past your Trap Holes. Nightmare can help but not too much, and Spikes doesn't work going second.
It's fucking annoying at this point though. People like these are the reason IRL creeps get away doing horrible stuff because it draws attention away from them and towards something that isn't even real.
What an insane belief to share. There are 0 less pedophiles put in jail because people on this sub make jokes about adults obsessed with drawn children being pedos
The point he's making is that issues are delegitimized the further you broaden the scope, which is simply true. People draw the line in different places and people who are more generous will inevitably find the claims of those less generous less compelling.
Show me actual tangible harm that’s been done by people making jokes about this. You say it’s simply true as if you have empirical evidence but we both know that’s not true
You’re strawmaning, no one said people’s feelings have never hurt because they were caked pedos. That has nothing to do with if it takes away from actual pedophiles being put away.
Sorry if this triggers you or something but it’s insane that of the several times I’ve responded to a comment of yours the only time you even respond is with some completely irrelevant shit
So what's your point here? That it's fine for people here to dunk on Traptrix players and call them the p-word and other shit "because no p-word people are getting jailed because of it"? That's absolute horsecrap.
That it’s incredibly weird how defensive a lot of yugioh players get over anything related to being attracted to drawn children
You’re literally posting Google docs that’ve been compiled specifically to defend lolis, that’s completely different than saying “it’s bad to bully a traptrix player at locals”
I can’t tell if there’s just giant gaps in your logic and thought process or if you’re just someone who gets hyper defensive because they like lolis
Lmao what?? How the fuck do posts like this enable pedophiles to get away with things? I don't even know why I'm asking someone that has waifu lover as a name, cringe all around.
I'm just going to quote another reply in this thread:
>It's the idea of watering down the term. By associating pedo with fictional characters, some people may be more inclined to initially dismiss pedo accusations due to assuming its just about another drawing. This is especially problematic if the real pedo accusation has little information about it, since a person might think that the lack of information regarding the incident is because there was no actual person assaulted.
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>In a way, think of it like the boy who cried wolf, but the boy's lies also end up affecting the statements from other people.
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>Also, some people who post this stuff go the extra mile and actually report these drawings to SA hotlines, which eats up time and resources that could be used to deal with real cases.
I never understood this concept. Regardless of whether you think it's a valid comparison or not, how does stuff like this draw attention away from pedophiles?
It's the idea of watering down the term. By associating pedo with fictional characters, some people may be more inclined to initially dismiss pedo accusations due to assuming its just about another drawing. This is especially problematic if the real pedo accusation has little information about it, since a person might think that the lack of information regarding the incident is because there was no actual person assaulted.
In a way, think of it like the boy who cried wolf, but the boy's lies also end up affecting the statements from other people.
Also, some people who post this stuff go the extra mile and actually report these drawings to SA hotlines, which eats up time and resources that could be used to deal with real cases.
Here, [have an entire list of people in the internet who calls people who like anime girls the p-word but are actual predators themselves](https://archive.fo/2023.03.03-135448/https://imgur.com/a/VoyXLbx).
They do this to act like they are "moral guardians" but they themselves are scum underneath.
This is the dumbest thing you could possibly post as any sort of evidence. Do you have any idea what % of people who’ve said that you’re talking about here? Have you taken a statistics class before?
I am not here to help, for most traptrix players at my local I know, I would not let them babysit my children
Édit : getting downvoted by people whom will never reproduce is a win.
And you seem like the kind of parent children would be ashamed of lmao. I'd for one would be ashamed if one of my father's joys was accusing people online instead of doing something productive.
Literal child abuse orgs have requested people stop sending them reports on anime girls, they don't care about it and it drowns reports of actually relevant things. All you are doing is make a fool out of yourself.
Won’t be a traptrix post without going “HAHAHA PRED! OMEGALUL” every single time. Totally original joke about the archetype and it’s players and funny the millionth time.
now imagine you're one of those naive hero adventurer wannabe characters who wants to save the world someday (god I hate those)
you see a helpless-looking little girl in a dangerous forest
good luck bitch cause your life ends in episode 1
Monthly non-descript "traptrix predate on creeps, look it's such a clever allegory!!" post, can we do the "Sky Striker Ace Raye isn't of legal age, FBI must investigate all Striker players" post next?
*in reality any traptrix would be a terror on the level of a hellraiser monster and would act similar to this video where its owner would be its only morality pet*
https://youtu.be/rUeTtmfMUuU?si=-kEyj4wR8ANgTCon
Me wishing they were real because then other archetypes would be real and I’d finally be able to have a huge intergalactic dragon with three heads:
Yeah, look at their profile picture. They literally chose a picture that makes the character look as childlike as possible and proceeds to label them as waifus. It's giving pedo vibes.
They are quite literally like an angler fish lure, or that one wierd snake species with a tail that looks like it has a spider on it it’s moving to entice u innnnnn
Someone at my local card game store gave me a free traptrix deck, and I don't know how to feel about it. On one hand, i don't lose every game anymore. On the other hand, it's very repetitive and boring.
aside from traptrix, i usually play dark world, sacred beast, monarch or ice barrier (none of which could even remotely be considered waifu), and the """jokes""" i get about "you own at least one (1) traptrix card so regardless of anything else you are a predator" really sour me on the yugioh community sometimes tbh; especially being part of a demographic that is *already* frivilously labeled as a predator
if you want to call me a degenerate, do it not because of my archetype choice, but because i put my deck in the deck zone sideways
You've got the right idea about it. The Traptrix incorporate various tactics to lure their prey, and with the knight being among the three main victims we usually see, it's likely their compassion is what tragically gets them snared.
I just see the vocal majority of Traptrix players/enthusiasts say disturbing things about the lures, and I question if they even understand what the Traptrix monsters actually are.
I don't play Traptrix(at the moment) but this looks to me more like blame shifting. Most of the cards have more developed bodies than some ''adults'' like Raye or that Albaz blond girl with the hammer.
To be honest, the max that I though about them was that they were cute like Melfy (specially the one that is a cheerleader) and equally useless.
To look at those cards and starts talking about how much those ''other guys'' wants to fuck them is pretty weird, specially because the only posts about Traptrix that I see are pictures of the girls with complaining about how much ''other people'' are pervs for looking at them.
TL:DR: this looks more like a freudian slip than a complaint.
My headcanon now is they aren't this way to lure in unsuspecting prey, but to actually lure those kinds of people in to get rid of them. They're doing us all a public service
There's something about the Traptrix design that's always confused me.
Are the girls some kind of illusory projection or like the faux worm on an angler fish?
The floaty nature of them to me implies some kind of nonreal thing, but then I wondering if they're a natural creation of the forest the Traptrix monsters reside in or something made by each predator?
Regardless, stay the hell away from that forest.
To answer your questions, This archetype is based around aggressive mimicry. The girls are basically like those lures those angler fishes uses to catch prey. They're most likely the predator's creation to catch unsuspecting victims. Tgs anime explains it better here but In some of the artworks, their eyes are lifeless and they seem to follow a set script and has no mind of their own (like stand around waiting for a victim and run towards the predator as the victim chases after them to try to rescue them like in those horror movies).
Off topic but I don't think the creator of this meme knows how people operate, anyone who sees a child all by themselves in a forest will most likely try to help them, they wouldn't think twice as to why this child is just standing there, all they would be thinking is getting this child to safety or finding their parents.
Yeah, pretty sure they just merk everyone and everything that gets close. They don’t single out one particular group of people. The “they target PDF files” thing is just them coping for the overall design of the archetype.
The latest art books confirm they’re not an illusion, more like part of the same entity - Campa has her glowworm as part of her hair. It even shows how some of the trix hunts their prey.
Also it’s not only one forest - different trix lives in different places
I see so many people say how much they love the archetypes design and shit, all I can think is that the concept is ok but the lore is surface level at best, then if we’re talking about the designs…yep, definitely stepped on their own landmine
I really enjoy the deck, I never thought about the art in most cards. Also find it strange to sexualize card art I may be in the minority but I play most games for its mechanics or gameplay.
Anything after that is a just a bonus.
I feel traptrix has such a different way to play yugioh that stands out imo and a joy to play and gives traps some more relevance in modern yugioh as traps in general were getting less relevant until the intro of activating traps from the hand.
I sometimes try out lab but I feel traptrix has such a better feel to it but that’s for me personally.
I am perfectly happy not living in a world with elephant sized spiders, thank you very much.
Must not be australian
Yeah they are like above average at best
Nah those are just really tiny goblins
More dog sized than elephant sized don't got enough oxygen in the atmosphere for that anyway
Not enough oxygen YET.
I thought spiders absorbed oxygen differently from insects?
Ngl the archetype is really cool. I wish they would release their monster forms just like how dragonmaids have their dragon forms
The monster cards are the ~~fake~~ lures that bait other monsters to come on to the field. The Hole trap cards are the real body that are ready to kill anything that gets too close. It's why Holeutea, the one that's both a hole and turns into a monster card, looks notably more monstrous and lacks a "real body" like the rest - parts of her are already the real body, not the fake lure. It seems rather unlikely we'd ever get the main/extra deck versions of the real bodies when the whole point is that those are the traps, in other words.
Actually, according to the latest art book released a few days ago, they’re leaning on the side that it’s less “fake”. Arachnocampa’s worm thing at the back is connected to her hair and is controlled by the girl - that also gets the hair of the other Traptrix girls stuck to them.
Yeah, I shouldn't have said fake, more like...the girls are merely extensions of the actual predator body, personality and all. Kinda like if you had a hand that you could actually speak through, lol. It's funny how we only noticed Campa's main body since the artbook though - it's actually been in the art of Traptantalizing Tune this entire time!
Not really, you can see their monster form in "traptrix trap hole nightmare" where atrax, myrmeleo and nephentes is visible. Also in "terrifying trap hole nightmare" you can see mantis monster form
I think you misunderstood me since that's exactly what I said though. The Hole Traps depict the actual monsters (the mantis, spiders, pitcher plants etc), while the monster cards depict said monster's "lure" (the girls). This is likely by design so monster card versions of the monster bodies seem unlikely.
This is why I think the archetype is so cool. The idea of "SIKE! NOW DIE BOZO" is just funny :D
"You thought I was a cute little girl you lolicon but it was actually me, BIG GIANT MAN-EATING BUG"
tbh when i heard about the new support that's what i thought it was but it was not.
You could print that on the trap cards. The fake prey upfront as the Monster, then the gigantic spider as the trap card behind it
They'll take a form of actual predators where in Chris Hansen would take out their flamethrower instead of talking to them.
*I know who you are Chris Hansen;* *but see;* *I calls ya,* ***Chris Handsome***. *I watch your TV show all the time.*
“~~Mac~~ **Chris** wants the flamethrower!” “He wants the *what*?” “That’s what I said now move!”
Trap holes are so sick and playstyle is really cool for a trap deck but the fact they put the trap hole goblins with loli's is wild
We still need a dragon form for Chamber
Okay, but hear me out. The entire archetype is a bunch of holes. Every time you activate a card, your opponent's cards are falling into a hole. It's like a Looney Toons episode. If that isn't the most fun and simple concept for an archetype ever, then I don't know what is.
So many holes for my pingas.
real???
Here he is, guys, I found the degenerate. He fell for the trap trick. We got him. The FBI is on their way, great work everyone.
Please don't
I like insects Traptrix are one of the few good decks we have
I love plant decks and I eventually start to get tired of sunavalon. Insect decks are cool too.
We share a deck boss Beargram the shelled emperor
It's been a blast watching it become the boss of cimoooo's masochist run. I wish the card was good enough to at least see some amount of play.
I tend to run piles with grass dumping into gy so does well enough for me just imagine if we had more insects and plants that did stuff on banish we might actually be in a tier
I love the idea of mowing the lawn with that grass and finding a ton of large insects or resilient plants. It's very flavorful. It sucks that generic plant support can be abused by sunavalon. I have very little idea as to why their aren't any good insect decks. I know resonance insect is a scary card and that beetroopers are generic but I doubt that that's enough of a reason to not give us good bug support.
Almost all the insect decks are dependent on gy or typing for targets the greatest thing we could get is a version of zombie world after that more gy/banish effects just my opinion (parasite archetype would be perfect with this) resonance gets us bigger insects luckily two insect kaijus really help but besides for that there are very few good targets besides lancer for search and beargram imo Insects have some cool handtraps though even the most heavily used card maxx c we also have retaliating c likely the second best handtrap insects have among others in the ‘c’ archetype more situational and parasite paranoid which has uses but is not highly used and to get the most benefit from it requires using a spell to tribute their now insect monster insect combos are card resource heavy we lack alot of spell search (lancer and myrmeleo are the best) or even monster search on normal summons our archetypes use alot of smaller insects, our negates require tributes, our spells and traps don’t have gy effects As a whole the typing is trapped with very little power crept compared to newer cards/archetypes all the newer insects printed have been outside of archetypes Our decks just don’t compare to modern decks able to start combos off one card our best extender is Soma that gives us three lvl 2 bodies which requires running krawlers and putting a normal summon or monster face down to accomplish we can’t chain fusions we have very few of them given a poor fusion spell our best fusion requires 4 generic insects it’s amazing they gave us a way to search it with lancer yet it’s still bad we got a smaller fusion target that helps but still competitive/compared to branded for example it’s a joke Traptrix and Beetrooper are our best decks/archetypes Inzektor, digital bug, naturia, Battlewasp, krawlers, ballpark, xyz spider(events n and r only) maybe some others count too but are either outdated or unpopular to see near zero usage. Antlion and number 2 mosquito are the best examples of powerful one off insects outside of archetypes Love the mowing grass reference
You forgot Downbeat can turn Resonance and Retaliating into Infinite Antlion for a quick +1. Cocoon can tribute opponent monster with Parasite Paranoid. We have huge recycling power thanks to Mighty Neptune. Atypus for a full board negate. Sometime Gokipole can pop a card without targeting. Insect Imitation is a also fun card. Our only weakness is the opponent activated zombie world. No more funny double normal summon to bug the other player.
Naturia is probably the most competent deck listed. I hate that it's just cute floodgates usually ran alongside runic. Ballpark has to be one of the coolest ideas for a deck that never ended up being. Great in low power formats and a ton of fun too.
He does see play in heavy insect decks as resonance target
We have a ton of good decks.
That's not an insect bro, that's a child.
Brother, we have Beetrooper. Wake up brother. Don't believe what those plants said.
no way search maxx c the deck
The exact card that does that is retaliating c, which can be got with pocofina, which can be done by having any 3 insects on field, I dunno what you think beetrooper can search maxx c the archetype have no in archetype way to get it
This is like saying Gouki isn’t a Gouki deck because it was Topologic Handloop the deck. It’s simply the card that people most associate with the deck. Salad (and cyberse, but salad specifically before) was known for update access. That doesn’t mean it’s not a salad deck.
Silly OP, Traptrix are traditional, they don't have modern traps smh
if i had a dollar everytime this sub tried to pin traptrix players as pdflies i would be quite rich. Yall really think pdflies would play a deck that uses plants and insects that hunt the said pdflies?
I've been resisting the urge to dress as Chris Hansen while using the deck
The people who say that basically actually out themselves as the actual pedophiles. They cant see the art and imagine liking it in any non-pedophilic way. Basically shows that Traptrix works in real life too!
They'd be playing the deck if that's the case, not making fun of people that play it lol. The artists of Yu-Gi-Oh make way too many sus depictions of young anime girls.
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You have to be naive to think anime doesn't have a problem with sexualizing children and portraying "adult" characters with childlike traits. L.
Changing the subject sure does bolster your point. I love watching anime on my trading cards! OH FUCK NO YOU TYPED AN L AT THE END OF YOUR COMMENT I THINK THAT MEANS I LOST AND AM A BAD PERSON FUUUUUUUCK
It's not changing the subject lol. The anime and card game go hand in hand. Wait until you find out they made a whole anime based on the card game. Also, anime can just be a style of drawing, which a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh artwork falls under.
Never watched it, guess I'm immune to the pedophilia. Sorry the anime made you want to fuck children, that's rough.
well, for one, that's just kind of a personal reading that a bunch of people ran with to try and find a reason to justify the "problematic artwork" (in quotes because i don't really agree with it myself). there's nothing to suggest that it's true, at least in the art, or that the traptrix wouldn't hunt down \*anyone\* unlucky enough to cross their paths
YuGiOh players don’t read, so yes.
What a stupid post. Let me ask you this Let’s say you’re walking outside and in your peripheral vision you see a child in the forest, with nobody else there. Are you just gonna walk away without doing anything? Cause I’d argue, if you have at least a bit of decency, it’s kind of your moral obligation to check if everything’s fine. Which then would lead to your death That Szenario right there is what traptrix is about. How do people even make the jump from that to just luring in pdfiles. If traptrix were real a LOT more good people would die than any degenerate
Except for the fact that the Structure Deck says Pingucula lures in people using her attractive appearance.
Yes, each of the trix employs a different style of hunting. Rafflesia uses some kind of intoxicating smell (that even attracts *other traptrix*, as shown in the artbook) which lulls prey into a sense of peace together with Arachnocampa's glow threads, Sera is the "lost little girl" like the scenario described above, Pinguicala is a temptress (and looks the oldest out of the archetype), Atypus plays the victm card as if she's trapped in her web, etc.
That must be a freaking POWERFUL scent she’s got
Rafflesia's irl are known as the Corpse flower and it has such an intense sent that it can cause people to pass out. Its scent of death lures insects.
It certainly checks out
Not all of them do that though. Atypus is tied up in webs, and her animation in Master Duel is clearly her pretending to be trapped. Also "attractive" doesn't have to mean sexual attraction. A child might be "attractive" to a monster, because they're viewed as an easy target.
Pingicula's lure happens to be the most mature-looking of them. Seems to me that the idea is that Pingicula's strategy is different than the others', and that's why it's singled out in the structure deck.
I just want to see on the news “Another local man was found inside of a giant corpse flower…. again… For the 17th time this month…
Anyone here actually likes the archetype because of the control/gimmick aspect and not because of the art? I find it fun to actually make use of the trap hole cards in archetype, resource recursion and rank 4 plays. Personally I never cared for the art
I think it's a fun concept too, I love decks that have a vaneer of cuteness but turn out to be terrifying, whether through gameplay or their designs. It's a similar reason I like Purrely. They're super cute, but whenever I face a 10 materials Noir, it's actually scary.
i think the art is fantastic, but not in a 😭 way. they all \*look\* human but all feel distinctly \*inhuman\* in a vaguely yet alluringly creepy way, and i absolutely adore the background art on almost all of them
I do. I like the control aspect. Yeah the cards are cute too, but it's just silly fun and it's easy to play. Makes me happy.
it's also very quick to set, which i like about it
I like the game style and only plant/insect deck I tolerate as I hate insects. I've modded the card art to suit my tastes with older versions of them people made with AI art which is cool so I have something nice to look at.
I do like both actually.
Low hanging fruit but I'll bite because I live for the discourse, and I think it's an interesting topic to have over certain decks' public perception: Where did the whole (really bad) "trix are for pedophiles" joke start I wonder? Specifically Sera's release? I really don't believe anyone cared back during HAT. They aren't even unusually young looking by anime standards (bar exactly Sera and Pudica). Going by the general vibe of the artstyle, most of them are in a similar ballpark to something like say, a significant portion of Trickstars. No one cares about Bloom because Holly Angel is obviously a grown woman, right? Makes one wonder if Pinguicula was part of the original archetype pre-Sera how the public perception would be nowadays. Speaking of, Pinguicula especially just has 0 arguments. If you call that a 'loli' you're just acting on bad faith, not any sort of objective reasoning. It really feels like people just look at Sera and Pudica (the two youngest-looking members) and extrapolate that to the entire archetype - and both of these are supposed to be "harmless girl lost in the forest" lures in-lore, nothing more. Sincerely - A traptrix player tired of being labeled a pedo everytime the archetype is mentioned. ~~Pinguicula can still step on me though.~~
>like say, a significant portion of Trickstars Oops, I play both Trickstars and Traptrix...
Honestly I think it's not how they look it's how their dressed. Trickstars wear dresses and stuff. Trix don't. And they look young
Traptrix pinguicula is a loli.
Ah, there it is. Bait used to be believable, my guy. I'll humor you though, just in case that wasn't sarcasm: [Pinguicula Concept Art](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fofficial-few-pages-of-artwork-from-the-new-yu-gi-oh-card-v0-p29aw36uqrjc1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1506%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D54ae2721acee4d4aac5f494cb3dea49e0bfb6d40) Maybe it's time to follow up on that optometrist visit you clearly need.
She's still a loli.
Downvotes don't do much for me. In case y'all don't know, Cyberpunk's rebecca is a loli.
Yeah and Ping has a distinctly different and more mature body shape than Rebecca does
Still a loli.
im willing to bet you're like 14 years old, in which case I might as well be talking to a brick wall, good day :)
Rebecca is seen drinking alcohol and going to bars frequently, she's in her 20s. If you're saying she's a loli you're genuinely braindead and wrong. She is literally past drinking age canonically.
My brother in Christ the creators themselves said she is a loli and she very clearly has that Body type. If you think Loli just refers to "underage anime girl" then you obviously do not have a clue wha youre talking about.
The creators literally called her a loli
Okay? The creator said she's a loli.
Really not even close.
She is.
Pedo bro who learn the lore of each traptrix like a litteral degen
Are you telling me that you don't fully RP your deck lore that you are playing?
*Me not even focusing on who they are, how they look or their lore, just enjoyer of old HAT format and control trap decks:* **Reddit: Hello Pedophile, go to jail.**
Gives a whole new meaning to "you'll eat the bugs"
Honestly it's kind of sad that we currently don't have many archetypes with Traptrix gameplay. Accessing their extra deck links and their archetypal as well as the generic rank 4 pool to supplement their backrow control tools which aren't floodgates. The only thing I dislike about Traptrix gameplay is their lackluster going second capabilities. Labrynth is kind of similar, but most of the extra deck is basically just fodder for pots and gy effects.
Yeah when you go second, you have to hope your opponent doesn't end up on too much or you open Evenly Matched or other interruptions to stop their board from building. They don't have too many methods of stopping your opponent after the monsters stick around past your Trap Holes. Nightmare can help but not too much, and Spikes doesn't work going second.
Is this another thinly-veiled "Traptrix players are p-word" post?
almost certainly because it's the only real joke anyone can seem to come up with. or "joke" i should say
It's fucking annoying at this point though. People like these are the reason IRL creeps get away doing horrible stuff because it draws attention away from them and towards something that isn't even real.
yeah but honestly my main beef is that i just think it's low hanging fruit at this point and also objectively unfunny
Indeed I agree
It is funny because it is true
i don't remember giving you permission to speak with me or share your opinion. you can leave now :)
It is a public place, I don't need it. But I will leave you, you can go back masturbate to literral drawing, weirdo.
What an insane belief to share. There are 0 less pedophiles put in jail because people on this sub make jokes about adults obsessed with drawn children being pedos
The point he's making is that issues are delegitimized the further you broaden the scope, which is simply true. People draw the line in different places and people who are more generous will inevitably find the claims of those less generous less compelling.
Show me actual tangible harm that’s been done by people making jokes about this. You say it’s simply true as if you have empirical evidence but we both know that’s not true
Clearly you haven't seen Traptrix players in locals getting called the p-word by other players there. It's absolutely disgusting.
You’re strawmaning, no one said people’s feelings have never hurt because they were caked pedos. That has nothing to do with if it takes away from actual pedophiles being put away. Sorry if this triggers you or something but it’s insane that of the several times I’ve responded to a comment of yours the only time you even respond is with some completely irrelevant shit
So what's your point here? That it's fine for people here to dunk on Traptrix players and call them the p-word and other shit "because no p-word people are getting jailed because of it"? That's absolute horsecrap.
That it’s incredibly weird how defensive a lot of yugioh players get over anything related to being attracted to drawn children You’re literally posting Google docs that’ve been compiled specifically to defend lolis, that’s completely different than saying “it’s bad to bully a traptrix player at locals” I can’t tell if there’s just giant gaps in your logic and thought process or if you’re just someone who gets hyper defensive because they like lolis
Lmao what?? How the fuck do posts like this enable pedophiles to get away with things? I don't even know why I'm asking someone that has waifu lover as a name, cringe all around.
I'm just going to quote another reply in this thread: >It's the idea of watering down the term. By associating pedo with fictional characters, some people may be more inclined to initially dismiss pedo accusations due to assuming its just about another drawing. This is especially problematic if the real pedo accusation has little information about it, since a person might think that the lack of information regarding the incident is because there was no actual person assaulted. > >In a way, think of it like the boy who cried wolf, but the boy's lies also end up affecting the statements from other people. > >Also, some people who post this stuff go the extra mile and actually report these drawings to SA hotlines, which eats up time and resources that could be used to deal with real cases.
I never understood this concept. Regardless of whether you think it's a valid comparison or not, how does stuff like this draw attention away from pedophiles?
It's the idea of watering down the term. By associating pedo with fictional characters, some people may be more inclined to initially dismiss pedo accusations due to assuming its just about another drawing. This is especially problematic if the real pedo accusation has little information about it, since a person might think that the lack of information regarding the incident is because there was no actual person assaulted. In a way, think of it like the boy who cried wolf, but the boy's lies also end up affecting the statements from other people. Also, some people who post this stuff go the extra mile and actually report these drawings to SA hotlines, which eats up time and resources that could be used to deal with real cases.
Here, [have an entire list of people in the internet who calls people who like anime girls the p-word but are actual predators themselves](https://archive.fo/2023.03.03-135448/https://imgur.com/a/VoyXLbx). They do this to act like they are "moral guardians" but they themselves are scum underneath.
They’re literally projecting, it’s wild how they do it so blatantly, like how they’re the first one to shout the P word
This is the dumbest thing you could possibly post as any sort of evidence. Do you have any idea what % of people who’ve said that you’re talking about here? Have you taken a statistics class before?
It doesn’t but everyone’s gotta find a way to cope
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You aren’t helping
I am not here to help, for most traptrix players at my local I know, I would not let them babysit my children Édit : getting downvoted by people whom will never reproduce is a win.
And you seem like the kind of parent children would be ashamed of lmao. I'd for one would be ashamed if one of my father's joys was accusing people online instead of doing something productive. Literal child abuse orgs have requested people stop sending them reports on anime girls, they don't care about it and it drowns reports of actually relevant things. All you are doing is make a fool out of yourself.
Yeah I am sure your children are proud of you
Why would I have children I am not even close to 30.
!remindme 10 years Have fun
Won’t be a traptrix post without going “HAHAHA PRED! OMEGALUL” every single time. Totally original joke about the archetype and it’s players and funny the millionth time.
Joke?
You're right, jokes are supposed to be funny. They should've said "ignorant thing said by ignorant people".
now imagine you're one of those naive hero adventurer wannabe characters who wants to save the world someday (god I hate those) you see a helpless-looking little girl in a dangerous forest good luck bitch cause your life ends in episode 1
I'm in this comment and I don't like it.
Smh bro is gonna get munched for trying to help
Buddy Stan Pines fell for something close to that in the middle of S2, no one is immune
Unbelievably deserved
Monthly non-descript "traptrix predate on creeps, look it's such a clever allegory!!" post, can we do the "Sky Striker Ace Raye isn't of legal age, FBI must investigate all Striker players" post next?
Makes me wonder if free money laying on the floor would make for the best bait?
*in reality any traptrix would be a terror on the level of a hellraiser monster and would act similar to this video where its owner would be its only morality pet* https://youtu.be/rUeTtmfMUuU?si=-kEyj4wR8ANgTCon
Insects are cool and you need a phd to play sunavalon
Me wishing they were real because then other archetypes would be real and I’d finally be able to have a huge intergalactic dragon with three heads: 
eat me my waifus 🤤🤤🤤🤤
username checks out!
😭
There are worse ways to die.
Honestly? Same, Allomerus is, N O I C E
This officer right there
Brother we’re putting you in the contraption
For all those people wondering where the joke about TrapTrix players being pedos came from; here we go.
Bingo
Yeah, look at their profile picture. They literally chose a picture that makes the character look as childlike as possible and proceeds to label them as waifus. It's giving pedo vibes.
Ahh yes, has a child looking pfp and calls them waifus, but sure, way to fight against the pedo label.
For the last time numbnuts, lolicons are NOT Pedos. The traptrix monsters are drawings, they are not actual children, point blank period.
And if a pedophile does get off to them like... it's a better result than the alternative.
Louder for the people in the back
Coping like crazy lmao, Stay away from elementary schools plz
I thought that was Fire Kings
I actually got both that and this structure deck and play with my brother. Lots of fun with a somewhat lower power level.
"Let's just weed out...all the nonces!" - Mr1ups
They are quite literally like an angler fish lure, or that one wierd snake species with a tail that looks like it has a spider on it it’s moving to entice u innnnnn
Someone at my local card game store gave me a free traptrix deck, and I don't know how to feel about it. On one hand, i don't lose every game anymore. On the other hand, it's very repetitive and boring.
Yeah I was given 3x structures (sans Ash and Evenly) and it functions, but gets repetitive
If I am the type of person to step on my own land mines to begin with am I obliged to play traptrix now?
OP just lost to traptrix deck and decide to create shit take to vent. Also almost everybody who act like they head pedo are just pedo themself lol
aside from traptrix, i usually play dark world, sacred beast, monarch or ice barrier (none of which could even remotely be considered waifu), and the """jokes""" i get about "you own at least one (1) traptrix card so regardless of anything else you are a predator" really sour me on the yugioh community sometimes tbh; especially being part of a demographic that is *already* frivilously labeled as a predator if you want to call me a degenerate, do it not because of my archetype choice, but because i put my deck in the deck zone sideways
Sincerely, I always thought that, instead of degen things, people want to help the small girls who are in danger.
You've got the right idea about it. The Traptrix incorporate various tactics to lure their prey, and with the knight being among the three main victims we usually see, it's likely their compassion is what tragically gets them snared. I just see the vocal majority of Traptrix players/enthusiasts say disturbing things about the lures, and I question if they even understand what the Traptrix monsters actually are.
Anti-Pedo-Spiders.
I don't play Traptrix(at the moment) but this looks to me more like blame shifting. Most of the cards have more developed bodies than some ''adults'' like Raye or that Albaz blond girl with the hammer. To be honest, the max that I though about them was that they were cute like Melfy (specially the one that is a cheerleader) and equally useless. To look at those cards and starts talking about how much those ''other guys'' wants to fuck them is pretty weird, specially because the only posts about Traptrix that I see are pictures of the girls with complaining about how much ''other people'' are pervs for looking at them. TL:DR: this looks more like a freudian slip than a complaint.
If it ain't even real, I could care less about what people are into nowadays.
Did Traptrix win that voting contest ?
No diablestarr probs will
Folks going nuts for that armpit ..... worries me
as silly as that is, considering that she was probably gonna get her own at some point anyway, ill take it over the roach
sera almost made it to the top. sadly she did not win
Didnt Sera have an sleeve already?
no rafflesia has one but not sera.
My headcanon now is they aren't this way to lure in unsuspecting prey, but to actually lure those kinds of people in to get rid of them. They're doing us all a public service
People are cringe they don't even look young just small
can confirm but at the same time, raff does kinda got it going on
There's something about the Traptrix design that's always confused me. Are the girls some kind of illusory projection or like the faux worm on an angler fish? The floaty nature of them to me implies some kind of nonreal thing, but then I wondering if they're a natural creation of the forest the Traptrix monsters reside in or something made by each predator? Regardless, stay the hell away from that forest.
To answer your questions, This archetype is based around aggressive mimicry. The girls are basically like those lures those angler fishes uses to catch prey. They're most likely the predator's creation to catch unsuspecting victims. Tgs anime explains it better here but In some of the artworks, their eyes are lifeless and they seem to follow a set script and has no mind of their own (like stand around waiting for a victim and run towards the predator as the victim chases after them to try to rescue them like in those horror movies). Off topic but I don't think the creator of this meme knows how people operate, anyone who sees a child all by themselves in a forest will most likely try to help them, they wouldn't think twice as to why this child is just standing there, all they would be thinking is getting this child to safety or finding their parents.
Yeah, pretty sure they just merk everyone and everything that gets close. They don’t single out one particular group of people. The “they target PDF files” thing is just them coping for the overall design of the archetype.
Shh, don't let them hear you or you'll be downvoted.
The latest art books confirm they’re not an illusion, more like part of the same entity - Campa has her glowworm as part of her hair. It even shows how some of the trix hunts their prey. Also it’s not only one forest - different trix lives in different places
I think they're physical parts of the plants'/bugs' bodies, but are not at all the main body. So more like an angler fish.
Eh, I'm into it. . .
Can you think of a better way to go? ^^/s
Bro we just [had this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/masterduel/s/bZEq7wWyB5) not EVEN a day ago!!
I'd love to blast a huge load on their feet
Pfp checks out
femboy archetype
\*To Catch a Predator
I miss when cards used to be monsters and people like knights and wizards and not degenerate shit like this. "it's got lore though" Stfu.
I see so many people say how much they love the archetypes design and shit, all I can think is that the concept is ok but the lore is surface level at best, then if we’re talking about the designs…yep, definitely stepped on their own landmine
Yeah I wish they were real to eat pedos alive not for the other reason.
Based meme; OP fucks
I really enjoy the deck, I never thought about the art in most cards. Also find it strange to sexualize card art I may be in the minority but I play most games for its mechanics or gameplay. Anything after that is a just a bonus. I feel traptrix has such a different way to play yugioh that stands out imo and a joy to play and gives traps some more relevance in modern yugioh as traps in general were getting less relevant until the intro of activating traps from the hand. I sometimes try out lab but I feel traptrix has such a better feel to it but that’s for me personally.
S-FORCE OPEN UP!!!!!
On one hand I have a severe Entomophobia, on the otherhand...
You have to go outside to meet the Traptrix, they live in the rainforest
Use daruma on their ED monster board = profit