5 Tips New Goat Format Players Must Know!

5 tips for Goat Format gameplay and sidedecking that will help you take your game to the next level. Really useful stuff.

Please welcome Goat Duels' newest contributor, InfusionsCap, a talented and accomplished old-school player with tons of Goat Format knowledge. I've known this man for 10+ years, so I am super excited to have him representing the channel.

00:00 Intro
00:31 Tip 1
03:00 Tip 2
05:51 Tip 3
08:33 Tip 4
10:25 Tip 5

[dallisjohnson]

These tips, in terms of their game theory, works for magic. This is just good game theory.

[stevenlindgren]

To tip #5, Something that really worked for me in last weeks local tournament, I was learning how to play reasoning gate for a couple of months, switched to a chaos turbo deck for the tournament, got matched up with someone with reasoning gate and knew how to play better against it. It’s the piloting different decks that help people become better duelist, you learn the ins and outs and how to play around. Some people play only one thing and that’s all they know. It might work for them and that play style, but it’s sorta narrow way of playing Yugioh! So many good decks to try.

[mickeymaples]

I would add another tip is not taking enough risks. Like sometimes going to atk with two monsters even with risks of mirror force or setting two cards against heavy storm is crucial to win games

[linuxjodi]

12:03 exactly~
Sure losing streak is not fun, but tweaking our decks until it fits our play style is fun, not to mention the thrill of building a versatile side deck, taking notes of every holes that our engine in our main deck might have and whatnot..

[michaelfellner]

this like a senior graduate seminar at the duel academy

[wildcard]

Solid video, man. I appreciate the breakdown

[kirbyverse]

Fantastic. There are players that have been playing GOAT for 15 years that don't sequence properly.

[superhuskygaming]

I love coming to videos like these for better ideas to play more efficiently for my duel videos I plan on making.

[Yubl]

I actually played back in 2005 when this was the current format. I didn't know that people still played this format until a week ago. I would think that goat format would be easier to learn than modern yugioh because it would be less complicated for new players.

[jackcarraway]

A couple tips I'd add:

Try other decks. Get out of your comfort zone and learn how other decks work. Playing the same cookie cutter Goat/Chaos Control and doing mirror matches gets old after a while. Retro Expert, Jinzo and Tonic and the Goat Format site are my go to places for unique decks.

Don't take it seriously. At the end of the day, it's just a game. Having fun and meeting new people is all that really matters to me.

[michelmonte]

Thanks for this content, really helpful!!!

[CloudMountainJuror]

Very good video, great resource to have

[Terry.M.I.]

lol i just got into your content and went from a 5 years ago vid to this 1 year ago vid at the moment of this comment and your voice has changed alot in 4 years xD

[derausmpark]

Bro turns a card game into a disinformation campaign and I'm all here for it.

[DeVito]

Well if I play trap dust shoot and have pot and duo i would first use pot. To get trap dustshoot. To play first the trap dust shoot.

[wobbieadam]

If you open Duo and Pot going first it doesn't matter what order you play them in, because that's a won game :(

[champamampa]

*Beggining of the game*

My opponents 1st turn: Activates Pot of Greed. Sets Magician of Faith and some trap or spell card to defended it.

My 1st turn: Opens hand without Nobleman or some other face-down disruptors. Cant kill MoF by attack beacuse she is protected.

My opponents 2nd turn:
Flip summons MoF, gets Pot of Greed from GY. Uses Tsukuyomi or Book of Moon to set it back face down.

My 2nd turn:
Still no face down disruptors, besides raw attacks.

Game is pretty much GG after this point.

[bocasuja]

i only improved my win rate on the ladder when i stopped playing turbo and started playing decks that i build from scratch, i'm the one playing the deck so it need to match the way a instinctively play

[fateindustry]

There was a guy who did this on my draw phase on the 2nd turn in a live tournment. Draw. He activates 2 Trap Dustshoot simultaneously before even looking at my hand. And guess what? All 6 cards in my hand were Spells and Traps. (which did include Pot of Greed and Graceful Charity...) 😐😐

[DaemonRayge]

You know, all of these tips can also be applicable to modern Yu-gi-oh as well.