69 Massively Underrated Goat Format Cards!

[@soundwave9560]

useful interactions w mind crush: -removing all copies of thunder dragon from opponents hand -using it like an extra copy of nobleman to discard anything a MoF gets back. -unlike trap dustshoot it’s okay against warriors because u can use it to counter ROTA if they already set their hand. -vs goat control it can break tsuk locks

[@MadcapYugioh]

Last Turn-Stein OTK hybrid decks are scary strong. Last Warrior is an alternate monster to Jowgen. Megamorph can be used to help manipulate your lifepoints into Last Turn range. For online Mind Crush is ruled so that you don’t view your opponent’s hand. Same goes for any similar effects like Royal Tribute. Big Bang Shot seems overlooked for many aggressive decks with Trunades. It can out problem monsters and then you still get to use it. I side it in my Panda Burn deck which has Lily, Shield & Sword (with a number of high defence monsters), Snatch Steal and United We Stand. In combination with one or more of those Big Bang Shot can be very good. Reasoning Gate has to keep Scapegoats vs burn decks. Against Panda Burn you can stick it onto their Panda and any damage it deals to defence monsters, including tokens is dealt to them instead. Their own Trunade if they choose to use it will banish their monster. You can also attach it to a Trio token and use Trunade to free up a monster slot.

[@stevenurosevic4821]

You definitely get to look at your opponent's hand for mind crush and royal tribute online.

[@MadcapYugioh]

@ Go to the Goat Format website and find the page in the Ruling Notices section for Mind Crush. Read it. I am correct.

[@soundwave9560]

unmentioned underrated card: summoner of illusions

[@blubberfish]

always great to see a new video from the channel, and an hour long one as well!

[@DarkSoulsSauron]

Jirai Gumo is one of my favorite cards because you can always pay its cost and it can beat over pretty much anything. it's an extremely underrated normal summon IMO.

[@tylerleswing]

Great vid, enjoyed the content!

[@shredded_lettuce]

Huge +1 to My Body as a Shield. I built a machine monarchs deck that uses Blowback Dragon and Jinzo, and My Body is a great tool for keeping tribute monsters around where the advantage isn't immediate like Zaborg and accumulates over several turns. It is also great for enabling Limiter Removal pushes, and is really good to have in a deck with Royal Decree so you can still have some semblance of protection that isn't a trap.

[@voidgoatformat]

Honorable mention for Control: Share The Pain

[@vanesslifeygo]

pain

[@justinspivey6543]

Jdz?

[@themegagamer6086]

Along with enemy controler

[@andykingz3693]

I run 1 in GC

[@RetroGamerMo]

Before I watch the video I wanna say my fav underrated card is giant Trunade. So many great synergies and it turns off the battle traps for the big pushes

[@phatwithduhph2479]

Plus recycle premature burial and keep the first revive on field

[@justinmadrid8712]

Giant Trunade is in every OTK deck and is not underrated.

[@RetroGamerMo]

@@justinmadrid8712 outside of Otk decks it’s very underrated

[@fluffyninja3467]

Giant Trunade is popular as hell in goat format it is NOT underrated lmao

[@RetroGamerMo]

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[@jakecardwell74]

A fusion I think is underrated is Super Roboyaru. It is a level 6 that can attack through Messenger of Peace.

[@Serjohn]

i love horus level 6, it can attack through swords and messenger of peace, if you play against a lot of floodgates

[@DJToasty5000]

great vid! good tool for creative deck building

[@melovacante]

Nice video! Also what do you think of Fairy Box? In my opinion can be a very intimidating card that force your opponent to "not take the risk" of losing a monster in battle and take the full battle damage. Another card I'd love to see in a video is Ordeal Of A Traveler; both cards are continuous, and their effect can be applied multiple times per turn. Theese cards have literally zero negative consequences and they could be a pain in the ass.

[@CloudMountainJuror]

I think Fairy Box may be usable, but Ordeal seems bad because it gives your opponent information and they can still call it right, so they may basically get information for free. It also gets much worse the less cards are in your hand.

[@letsmakeit110]

Fairy Box has this weird problem where the best decks for it have lots of small creatures (Don Zaloog, DDWL, Mystic Lvl 2, Sasuke Samurai # 4 if you want to be cute, etc...) which means they don't close out the game very fast, which means the 500 lp payment actually becomes relevant.

[@soundwave9560]

@@melovacante mirror wall and wall of revealing light are similar. instead of using it as an OTK enabler maybe ppl could just start paying 2000 for wall of revealing light.

[@arturoorutra61]

Fairy box have 2 problems, 1.-You only use it when you are losing and noboby want a card for when you are losing and 2.- You need your opponent to attack. But you are correct, Fairy Box is amazing, and deserve a place in the list, but i kinda feel like it work better in other formats, like Edison, where the field can get full of monsters, so you can use the effect multiple times for turn and save you of a lot of OTK or big monsters, i once kill a FHD with a marshmallow using Fairy box, in goat everything is slower and the potential of fairy box is limited. Ordeal work in low level play, but in high level suck, again, you need your opponent to attack, you need a big hand size and your opponent can abuse it by bouncing back cards like flips, breaker, stein and a lot of cards you want to protect in your hand or are useless in the field after use it.

[@yugioh5ds209]

As an edison player i love your videos because I always pull one insight out of it that is great ! I clipped the TT one because it is very interesting !

[@ussgordoncaptain]

Cyber-Stein is an underrated aggro card, the card straight up beats Gravekeepers spy like no other card. Stein for Gatling dragon flip 3 coins feels like paying 5k life points to summon BLS a lot of the time.

[@shawshankstank7765]

I think a weird one is poison of the old man. I play a stein otk and it comes in handy either the 1200 helps me or the 800 can help push extra damage also it is a quick play

[@wobbieadam]

I've been playing a Last Will "toolbox" deck now for a while with 3x meta and an Apprentice/Monarch engine to trigger it and have found that it actually works very well. Some LW targets I run include Stein, Lily, Byser Shock and Jowgen (sided). Good to see some of these cards on your list, I agree they are underrated

[@JTK_XXL]

41:30 Des Lacooda himself is not necessarily underrated, but more the deck he is usually played. He shines the most in P.A.C.M.A.N. which mutates to a monstrous deck if piloted skillfully. One of the strongest decks in retrospective of 2005.

[@MrMarvelMike]

Not even close.

[@TheJinzoSpoon]

Pot of Greed, very underrated

[@IkanaMaskedMan]

What pot of greed does?

[@AbhAlex]

​@@IkanaMaskedMan You summon it to draw 3 cards

[@KaiOcean408]

Back to square one has really cool art

[@CloudMountainJuror]

Excellent vid, thanks for your insights!

[@TEKASHI-de1qt]

please make a list for the jirai gumo last turn deck, sounds solid

[@moonmoon4537]

Jirai Gumo was my fucking GOAT back in middle school. I had 3 copies, and I trashed all of my friends with it constantly. Things got really nasty when someone gave me a shoebox full of cards and I got my hands on 3x Dark Elves and 3x Megamorphs 💀 I love hearing you say ‘you may have never heard of this one’ because Jirai is one that’s truly close to my heart. I’m going to begin testing your deck asap… last turn is another one of my old favorites.

[@MrTheBerti]

Good list but crazy to think thats theres even more underrated cards

[@Alderoth]

Reckless Greed is such a sleeper. You instantly spring 2 turns ahead.

[@EclipseTheTube]

Bottomless Trap Hole is also good against Return Decks in general or Dimension Fusion Gate etc

[@RarecuisineSaucegod-ig8bc]

69 cards that show the power disparity in goat format. Imma use these cuz i love em but imma get rekt by chaos

[@ledrociam]

Literally been asking for this in so many goat content creators comments. A video with a large number of goat staples not just a top 10

[@justinmadrid8712]

I don't think you know what 'staple' means lol

[@camposnw10]

I started playing book of moon in the main instead of saku in a chaos warrior deck and it’s been working very well. Also 2 jowgen and 3 spell canceller in the side are a must for me in the db ladder

[@Justjoey17]

I feel like an “all in” last turn deck should be running 3 self destruct button, but maybe that’s hated by the community

[@pompirate8096]

I've always liked Light of Intervention.

[@TobeyFairre7861]

Amphibious Bugroth MK-3 X3 + Limiter removal + Legendary Ocean = 10,200 damage from 3 level 3 monsters. Run a bunch of trunades, and other back row removal, with mother grizzly, mermaid knight, and salvage to return the combo pieces along with MoF and DMoC

[@enchorialdude2721]

There is a deck in Goat which people don't pay much attention to but can cook a lot: Dragon Beat Down. First, dragons can run a lot of backrow removal. You run staples like MST, Dust or Heavy plus 3 copies of Stamping of Destruction. You also have Masked Dragon, which is the only recruiter that can summon in def possition and it can go into Armed Dragon lv3 which goes into lv5 (this has a good monster removal effect). You have Lord of D., who makes your dragons untargetable by book of moon, ring of destruction, BLS and Chaos Sorcerer. Then you have Rising Air Current, the field spell that gives 500 atk to wind monsters and goes really well with the Armed Dragon lineup and vanilla wind dragons like Luster Dragon. I personally run a variant of this deck with Red-eyes B Dragon and the Chick that lets you summon it (can be searched with Masked Dragon). It's not as consistent as the pure wing dragon version, but I've been able to beat meta decks like Chaos Turbo, Control, Gate and Warriors.

[@soundwave9560]

@@enchorialdude2721 got a good decklist anywhere?

[@enchorialdude2721]

@@soundwave9560 You can do with 3x Masked Dragon, 3x Luster Dragon, 2x Armed Dragon lv3, 2x Armed Dragon lv5, 1x Twin Headed Behemot, 3x Stamping of Destruction, 2-3 Lords of D (I run only 2), 3x Rising Air Current, and you can run Armed Dragon lv7; However, he is a dead draw 'cause he cannot be normal summoned unlike lv5. It's strong when it hits the field being a 2800 atk (3300 with the field spell) and basically a Raigeki on legs that can be protected by Lord of D (I personally don't run it). Fill the rest of the deck with generic staples like Sangan, Magician of Faith, Pot of Greed, Gracefull Charity, Mirror Force, Call of The Haunted, etc. You can make several variants of this deck. As I said before I use a Red-Eyes variant, but you can run a Blue-Eyes variant with Kaibaman, and Rota and Shining Angel to search him while you take advantage of cards like Stamping of Destruction, A Wingbeat of Giat Dragon, and Dragon's Rage (gives piercing to all dragons).

[@SamJulesGillians]

I main deck Jinzo, really love him.

[@teafollet5361]

I also really like these boardwipes: malevolent catastrophe, and needle ceiling

[@GoatDuels]

Malevolent catastrophe isn't legal in Goat Format. It wasn't released in the TCG until 2007.

[@teafollet5361]

@@GoatDuels Oh i didn't know. It's a shame. I wonder how some of these OCG cards would perform in GOAT

[@Nickrarri]

Goat format might not be advanced format yugioh but mind crush rulings are still advanced when you play official time wizard 8 man pods at YCSs. While they use the rulings of the time, things like revealing hands/decks with NoC & Mind Crush aren’t allowed because it’s not in the spirit of the card how they intended. Policy VS ruling thing & apparently there is a distinction whether we like it or not.

[@GoatDuels]

It absolutely was in the spirit of how the card was intended. Mind Crush and Trap Dustshoot were both quite popular from 2007 to 2011, and Mind Crush was always ruled to be "similar to Trap Dustshoot" in that you could take a reasonable amount of time to memorize your opponent's hand after the card resolved. That's just how the card was played then, and if you're ruling something different, then you're deliberately saying that you don't want to play the authentic version of that format.

[@Nickrarri]

@@GoatDuels I agree, but unfortunately there is incentive to play by Konami policies because sanctioned events is how Goat format is played IRL 99% of the time at OTS & YCS/Regional 8 man pods. So if you’re not practicing for how you will play in events, it’s poor practice. Just like how modern end of phase time rules are used despite not being true to the format or ideal.

[@GoatDuels]

The whole point of Goat Format was always that it was a grassroots format that does not bow to the wishes of Konami. The community can play however the hell it wants. I'm sure we could find plenty more of wrong rulings that the time wizard events play by, but that doesn't give those rulings any additional merit.

[@Roge9]

Amazoness chain master is under rated. You can really screw over your opponent with that card's effect.

[@yu-gi-ohtrueduelist6912]

Is your system dueling goat still active?

[@letsmakeit110]

1. IMO Magical Merchant is the best 6th light in Chaos Turbo. Milling from the top of a randomized deck is the same as milling from the bottom so for every game you mill your BLS and lose there will be another game where you mill into your BLS and win. It's a non-situational 1-1 that seldomly hits Sinister. Sasuke, Azura, Blade Knight can be good sidedeck cards, and DDWL is half a light, but if I'm playing 2 Sorc I want 6 lights and that means Merchant game 1. 2. I've been enjoying a small burn package in Earth Aggro with Ceasefire, Reflect Bounder, and Magic Cylinder. I wanted to main Wanghu which means I don't want to main Mystic lvl 2 (Injection is already a non-bo) so Ceasefire helps cover up some of those emergent problems. Basically the experiment is to play a deck that sheds some -1s, but doesnt throw its whole hand at the opponent's life total. That way I can play Morphing Jar and Cyber Jar and not feel bad when I don't draw them.

[@s.plissken_91]

Mirror wall is slept on as well. It's basically shrink.

[@justinmadrid8712]

That you can't play the turn you draw it lol... making it much worse than shrink.

[@derekwst3-YGO]

While not Goat format, on my channel i do anime cpu vs cpu tournaments called my reduel series have used the majority of these. Mystic swordsman lv 2 and the Creator are the only two i have not used

[@aj1886first]

The best underplayed card in goat format is automatimus action unit!

[@krt8205]

no pitch black werewolf mention? opponent cant use traps in the battle so its a normal summon jinzo that baits your opponents resources. then use it with a return deck and strike ninja and you can swarm with a pretty good field

[@GoatDuels]

The problem with this card (as well as Mirage Dragon) is the fact that cards like Raigeki Break and Ring of Destruction can just be used before you enter your battle phase.

[@Prodigial6]

For Final Attack Orders, can you declare attack, wait for Sakaretsu Armor, and then flip it in second window of battle phase, or does it need to be active on attack declaration?

[@GoatDuels]

You can flip it in the second window, after your opponent can no longer use Sakuretsu Armor.

[@qiny]

welcome back!

[@craciunator99]

Funny how many of these cards are just staples in my decks lol

[@arturoorutra61]

Most of the cards in your list are already used in GOAT, so, no underrated. You miss some huge really understaed cards, like lighting vortex or mass diver as a side deck (it's great against panda burn, stall strategies and to close some games). IMHO, the most underrated card in the format is ultimate offering, the card can be huge in some decks, you can summon more than once for your turn, so, multimple monsters to end the duel or easy Jinzo or monarchs, also, the hability of summon in your oponent turn is amazing, you can disrupt with tsuko, monarchs, also you can safe summon some cards in your opponent end of the battle phase, like flips or those cards you need to survive for a combo or prevent a OTK and of course, bait torrential/botomless. Another card card i want to try is Graverobber, i feel like it have a huge potential in GOAT but everyone is afraid of the 2000 cost, but graverobber is like having multiple extra spells in your hand and with the trinity in GOAT this can be huge, also cards like Heavy storm can change the game, even a NoC, also, the chance of disrupt your opponent MoF, i mean,paying just 2000 life point for a extra copy pot of greed or graceful or even 3000 for a duo? Sure, no problem.

[@AB-ds3zl]

Would you say library ftk is a better deck than chaos turbo?

[@GoatDuels]

Yes. If you learn the basics of how Library FTK plays, your win rate will increase and your number of friends will decrease.

[@beitno3029]

Hell yea dude your are a goat

[@matteomigliore1477]

Jurai gomo?

[@alexb.1372]

Using Jirai Gumo with Last turn and hope to win is the worst advice ever. There's 99% no hope unless you activate Last turn after your opponent normal summon for turn and they really don't main any monarch,jinzo etc. If you activate it before he normal summons he can just choose to special summon sangan (mystic tomato searchers also work) and get a monster summon it and worst case its a draw.

[@GoatDuels]

The most popular deck in the format (Chaos) immediately loses to Last Turn + Jirai Gumo, because they do play cards like monarchs or Jinzo. Sangan is not an issue, because as you pointed out, you can just activate your Last Turn after your opponent has already normal summoned. Recruiters are also very uncommon in modern-day Goat Format.

[@alexb.1372]

​@@GoatDuels As someone that does play Last turn in goat format i can ensure you that this "advice" is extremely bad and 99% unrealistic to pull.

[@GoatDuels]

Clearly you haven't played a lot of games, or it would be pretty obvious that what I'm suggesting is totally viable. The vast majority of the decks in the format do not contain a monster that attacks over Jirai Gumo. The fact that so many people dismiss new ideas without even trying them is the #1 thing that holds back their development as players.

[@alexb.1372]

@@GoatDuels "Clearly you haven't played a lot of games..... " sadly,i probably easily overpass you in years i play the game but that's irrelevant... Find a list with Jirai Gumo + Last Turn or try to build a Last turn deck with Jirai Gumo and you will easily realize how bad advice this is . The fact that maybe 1/10 matches this may actually win you 1 duel doesn't make it good...

[@vanesslifeygo]

thank god we dont start duels with 6900 LP

[@hildumpthecow5319]

No one thinks Saku is trash. Just trash in the main. It's in like 90% of side decks. Stein/Will are trash pre-CRV.

[@BillyBonker-ys4qp]

❤

[@justinspivey6543]

Gigity

[@Mrkevi123]

Sakuretsu is terrible

[@brandonshort876]

Assuming you haven’t been in goat format very long. It’s the #1 most popular side deck card and for good reason. It’s the best answer to warriors and a pretty good answer to thousand eyes restrict.

[@AzIgaziMakk]

Really good video man! The only thing i really dislike on the list Bottomless it is really only good againts warrior and even there it is not amazing still bad againts Zaloog and Lvl 2 as you mentioned but againts every other deck it's usually bad or okay at best. I think Raigeki Break is still better than PWWB the reason yes Raigeki Break is it always great but it's almost never really bad, PWWB in the other sometimes it is amazing but when it's bad damn it can put you into trouble. However you are right PWWB is the card if you play it play 3 or 0 because drawing multiple copies is just super strong. Not maining Torrential is really a huge mistake the last time i skipped because i mained Decree but it was still lying on side (I'm playing IRL so you can never know what madness people bring there)

[@qroof.youtube]

when are we going to talk about slate warrior???

[@brandonshort876]

Card is crazy with return. Just unfortunate it’s a wind.