The graveyard was not the main resource like it is nowadays, in fact, the only deck that used the graveyard as a resource were Chaos decks which used it as fuel for their boss monsters. Either summoning a lot of monsters in attack mode making them easily blown out by cards such as Mirror Force or Lightning Vortex or setting 4-5 back row ( wink wink nod nod ) to be blown out by a heavy storm or slowly picked apart with cards like Breaker the Magical Warrior because effect negation was practically non-existent back then. See one of the many mistakes that people make when going into format is overcommitment. In Goat Format, many turns often consist of setting a monster and occasionally setting a spell or trap. Hand advantage is less important than field advantage and a lot of players find themselves generating huge pluses of 2 or 1 card combos or spells or traps with graveyard effects all while the game is filled with numerous hand traps and board breaker cards Modern Yugioh is very much a game of throwing cards at each other, either shitting out large boards and setting multiple back row while using the graveyard as the main resources in the case of decks such as Salamangreats. Now those of you familiar with modern Yugioh might find yourselves thrown off by goat format and thatвЂ™s because of the different mindsets between the two Eras. Just about every deck in Goat format used most if not all of these cards as they were all incredibly powerful whether itвЂ™s in providing or taking away card advantage, being excellent removal or just being a really good monster such as in the case of BLS and Jinzo. Since the list long allows me to just name a few since back then 75% of decks were the same While the many cards of the era were the soldiers on the battlefield, these cards acted as commanders that usually led their forces to victory. Hey, you know how nowadays we have several staple cards such as Ash Blossom or Knightmare Phoenix? Yea well this might be a shocker to some but back in YugiohвЂ™s infancy staples were a thing, in fact way more than they are nowadays. Furthermore, ItвЂ™s also important that during this ruleset, the player going first was allowed to draw a card on their first turn which made the die roll very important as whoever started got a huge advantage, arguably a bigger advantage than nowadays There are other errataвЂ™s from this time but these are the main ones. Sinister serpent added himself to hand with no cost and Sangan didnвЂ™t require you to wait to use the monster you searched off him. The two most prominent examples of the format are Sangan and Sinister Serpent whose original texts you can see just below next to their modern texts In the 15 years since Goat format, several of the cards have received Erratas which change the way these cards work drastically. I know that the concept of monsters having built-in quick-plays in all their effects to avoid on-field effects sounds ridiculous in the context of modern Yugioh but thatвЂ™s just how the game was played back in 2005 In Goat format, if the turn playerвЂ™s BLS would be hit by a card such as Bottomless the turn player is allowed to activate the banish effect of BLS as chain link 1 and the opponents Bottomless is forced to become Chain link 2 resulting in the opponent still losing their monster. See in todayвЂ™s format using Bottomless Trap Hole on would mean you affect him on summon and therefore remove it off the field before it has a chance to activate its effect. Additionally, Cat made a rule where the use of Exarion Universe is prohibitedД«LS is known for his effect of being able to once per turn banish one monster on the opponentвЂ™s side of the field and to help us explain letвЂ™s use a well-known trap such as Bottomless Trap Hole which existed but didnвЂ™t see much play during Goat. The Goat format ban list is as followsД«lack Luster Soldier - Envoy of the BeginningДЄdditionally, while technically legal during Goat format, both Cyber-Stein and Sengenjin are sometimes banned in Goat tournaments due to their rarity during the format. Since this was the 2005 format, the ban list was quite different from what many of us are familiar with but itвЂ™s the legality of certain cards that make the format what it is.

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