Card Pool & Banlist

Building a Goat Format deck from scratch can feel like a daunting task when you're just getting started. Fortunately, DuelingBook has you covered with its easy and convenient search feature. The video below provides simple instructions on how to use DuelingBook's deckbuilding feature to search for all or some of the legal cards in Goat Format:

Most Goat Format events today use a ruleset based on Shonen JUMP Championship Indianapolis, one of the last North American premier events of the historical format. So generally speaking, the cardpool for Goat Format is understood to reflect all cards that would have been legal for premier event play on August 17, 2005. This includes all of the following sets and promotional cards:

Legal Sets: Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon (LOB), Yugi and Kaiba Starter Decks (SDY/SDK), Metal Raiders (MRD), Magic/Spell Ruler (MRL/SRL), Pharaoh's Servant (PSV), Joey and Pegasus Starter Decks (SDJ/SDP), Labyrinth of Nightmare (LON), Legacy of Darkness (LOD), Pharaonic Guardian (PGD), Magician's Force (MFC), Dark Crisis (DCR), Yugi and Kaiba Evolution Decks (SYE/SKE), Invasion of Chaos (IOC), Ancient Sanctuary (AST), Soul of the Duelist (SOD), Dark Beginning 1 (DB1), Rise of Destiny (RDS), Flaming Eternity (FET), Dark Revelation 1 (DR1), The Lost Millennium (TLM), Dragon’s Roar (SD1), Zombie Madness (SD2), Blaze of Destruction (SD3), Fury from the Deep (SD4), Dark Beginning 2 (DB2).
Promo Cards: BPT, CMC, CT1, DBT, DDS, DMG, DL1, DL2, DL3, DL4, DL5, DL6, DL7, DL8, DOD, DOR, EDS, EP1, FMR, JMP (up to and including Archfiend of Gilfer), MC1, MOV, MP1, PCJ, PCK, PCY, ROD, SDD, SP1 (up to and including Embodiment of Apophis), TFK, TP1, TP2, TP3, TP4, TP5, TP6, TSC, WC4, WC5.

Keep in mind that all incarnations of Goat Format use the April 2005 Forbidden/Limited List for the TCG. All of the relevant restrictions for this list are displayed below:

Forbidden Cards
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End
Fiber Jar
Magical Scientist
Makyura the Destructor
Witch of the Black Forest
Yata-Garasu
Butterfly Dagger - Elma
Change of Heart
Confiscation
Dark Hole
Harpie's Feather Duster
Mirage of Nightmare
Monster Reborn
Painful Choice
Raigeki
The Forceful Sentry
Imperial Order

Limited Cards
Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
Breaker the Magical Warrior
Cyber Jar
Dark Magician of Chaos
D.D. Warrior Lady
Exodia the Forbidden One
Exiled Force
Injection Fairy Lily
Jinzo
Left Arm of the Forbidden One
Left Leg of the Forbidden One
Morphing Jar
Protector of the Sanctuary
Reflect Bounder
Right Arm of the Forbidden One
Right Leg of the Forbidden One
Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys
Sangan
Sinister Serpent
Tribe-Infecting Virus
Twin-Headed Behemoth
Card Destruction
Delinquent Duo
Graceful Charity
Heavy Storm
Lightning Vortex
Mage Power
Mystical Space Typhoon
Pot of Greed
Premature Burial
Snatch Steal
Swords of Revealing Light
United We Stand
Call of the Haunted
Ceasefire
Deck Devastation Virus
Magic Cylinder
Mirror Force
Reckless Greed
Ring of Destruction
Torrential Tribute

Semi-Limited Cards
Abyss Soldier
Dark Scorpion - Chick the Yellow
Manticore of Darkness
Marauding Captain
Night Assailant
Vampire Lord
Creature Swap
Emergency Provisions
Level Limit - Area B
Nobleman of Crossout
Reinforcement of the Army
Upstart Goblin
Good Goblin Housekeeping
Gravity Bind
Last Turn