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Goat Format Championship 12 is complete, and four players have risen above the competition. Say hello to our newest Goat Format Champions! Delinkquent
What decks or players were you NOT looking forward to playing against?
Decree players. You are mean! What card had been overperforming for you today? Trap Dustshoot. This card is absolutely disgusting, unfair, and imbalanced. Conclusion: Sounds perfect for my style of deck. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Opening Morphing Jar against my brother two times and ending up having a huge plus afterwards. My favorite Goat card of all time is just never letting me down. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? I would add so many traps that I would have to change my name to Odion. AlephYa2
What decks or players were you NOT looking forward to playing against?
Well, I guess everyone who followed the coverage might have an idea about which player I tried (and failed) to avoid. What card had been overperforming for you today? Cold Wave won me quite a lot of games (as expected). But also, the Cyber-Steins on their own were really solid. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Definitely me summoning Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon with Cyber-Stein to set up a Monarch + BLS play the next turn. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? Maybe cutting one of the two Zaborgs, or switching one with a Granmarg. Brain + Zaborg was often quite dead in hand. Fusion
Terraforming to ensure they have the Necrovalley early. But by doing so, they run into the issue of drawing too many redundant Necrovalleys. The solution I came to was to only play five GKs: three Spy, one Spear, and one Assailant. That way, I'm not reliant on the Necrovalley for my deck to function, and the risk of Necro flood is very low.
There are a few reasons to play GK Warrior over pure Warrior. First, the surprise factor. Players don't know what's in the deck, and therefore have a harder time making reads and side-boarding for it. Second, the diversity of threats. Spy is such a powerful aggro card in this shell that my opponents are obligated to keep Nobleman of Crossout in against me, even though NOC is awful against every other card in my deck. Likewise with Mystic Swordsman lv2 in the warrior matchup. The diversity of threats prevents the opponent from being able to streamline their answers, and they run the risk of having the wrong answer for each threat. Third, Necrovalley is a really nice tool to cover the Turbo matchup. Alongside the three kycoo, it's very rare that Sorc or BLS ever get dropped against me. Without access to those cards, Chaos variants have a hard time outing my beaters. Necrovalley also helps against some unfair strategies such as Reasoning Gate and Empty Jar. Overall, I feel that playing the hybrid version offers you more agency than pure warrior, and you can still retain many of the strengths of the warrior deck with a smaller warrior package. Reinforcement of the Army can still search whatever you need, but you also play Spy to search the two GK beaters when they're needed. What decks or players were you looking forward to playing against? Warrior and Chaos Turbo. This deck is very well positioned in either matchup. What decks or players were you NOT looking forward to playing against? Chaos Control, Trunade decks, and lockdown decks. What card had been overperforming for you today? Spy (but that was no surprise. The card is insane, and I think maining spy is the future of aggro). What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? After I defeated Lukaz to advance to winner's finals, I was just happy to have taken down one of the strongest players in the tournament. But, I didn't even realize that that win secured me a worlds invite until my teammates pointed it out to me. That made the moment even better! I'm still relatively new to the Goat Format community, so this achievement means a lot to me. And I got to do it with a really cool deck as well. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? In the sideboard, I considered playing one Kinetic Soldier over the second Blade Knight. The reason being that both cards are good against Warrior, but Kinetic Soldier also has utility against lockdown strategies by getting under Gravity Bind and Level Limit. In my match against Delinkquent, I was forced to use Solemns Aggressively because I knew that a resolved Gravity Bind or LLAB would completely stop me. And I died to burn as a result. I chose to play two Blade Knights because it's the more consistently powerful card, and I felt like my matchup against lockdown was bad enough already that my best bet is to just hope I don't run into it. My two losses were against Zombie Stall Burn and Cold Wave Stein Monarchs. Both were strategies that I think my deck was not equipped to compete with unfortunately. However, I don't regret anything about my deck list. Lukaz
I didn't want to play against Reasoning Gate because sometimes you just can't win if things go right for them. I did win against it today, though.
What card had been overperforming for you today? I can't really say that any card over or underperformed. The deck is a finely tuned machine. What has been your favorite moment of the event so far? Watching finals was great. It was exciting to see that it was two decks that I didn't expect to be there. If you could go back, what (if any) changes would you would make to your deck today? I might swap out the Seven Tools of the Bandit for something to counter Reasoning Gate.
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