Goat Format Commander Rules and Tournament

Based off the rules of the popular Magic: The Gathering format “Commander” (Also known as EDH), Goat Format Commander brings a somewhat analogous experience to the game of Yu-Gi-Oh! Choose one of your favorite monsters to represent your deck and lead similar monsters into battle!

Tournament Details

The first Goat Format Commander tournament will be held over at the Casual Goat Format discord server (click HERE to join).

Signups are open now, and the tournament begins Friday, November 24th. It will be a multi-day tournament with 72 hour (3 day) rounds! There is no entry fee! The tournament type will be determined based on the total number of participants (double elimination, swiss into top cut, or round robin).

Prizes
1st Place: Choose two from $10 duelingbook donation code and one month Discord nitro
2nd Place: Choose one from the above
Deck Building Prize: The owner of the TO's favorite participating deck also gets to choose one of the prizes above!

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Goat Commander Rules

Start by selecting a Goat Format legal monster that is neither DARK, LIGHT, Spellcaster-type, Warrior-type, a Fusion Monster, or “Morphing Jar”. You can also choose “Jam Breeding Machine”, “Multiplication of Ants”, “Scapegoat”, “Stray Lambs”, “Ultra Evolution Pill”**, or “Embodiment of Apophis”. 


Then, build a Goat Format legal deck, with the following restrictions:

• Your deck must include your chosen Commander.

• Your deck must be 41 cards or greater.
• You cannot play more than 1 copy of each card. (See Special Exceptions)
• All monsters in your main deck, side deck, and fusion deck must share an Attribute, Type, Ability (except FLIP), or Archetype with your Commander, or support the Type/Attribute of your Commander. See the full rules for details on what these encompass.
• You may not include any Spells or Traps which summon Tokens that do not fall under these categories.

Example 1: If you choose “Valkyrion the Magna Warrior” as your Commander, you can play only EARTH or Rock-type monsters in your deck.
Example 2: If you choose “Fushi No Tori” as your Commander, you can play only FIRE, Winged Beast, or Spirit monsters in your deck.
Example 3: If you choose “Scapegoat” as your Commander, you can only play EARTH or Beast-type monsters in your deck.

At the start of a game, banish your Commander from the deck. If it is in your opening hand, banish it and then draw a card. This action is done before anything else in the game and you can’t respond. Later in the duel, you can Summon your Commander from the banished zone, as detailed below.

Summoning Your Commander
ONCE during the game, except the first turn of the duel, you can Summon your removed from play Commander as if it were in your hand or in your deck, at the appropriate time you would be able to play it from those areas, and by paying any associated costs as normal. This means:

• You must use your Normal Summon for the turn, unless you are Special Summoning your Commander via some method. If you are Tribute Summoning it, you must still tribute the correct number of monsters.
• If you are Special Summoning your commander with its own effect or Summoning Condition, you still pay the associated costs and must meet the requirements for the Summon.

• If your Commander is a Ritual Monster, you must use an appropriate Ritual Spell and tribute the appropriate monsters to Summon it. 
• If it is an EARTH monster with 1500 or less ATK, you can Summon it from the banished zone when “Giant Rat" is destroyed by battle, instead of a monster from the deck. This applies for all other similar recruiters and their respective Attribute/type.
• If it is an Insect-type or Pyro-type monster, you can special summon it with the effect of “Pinch Hopper” or “The Thing in the Crater” respectively, instead of a monster from your hand.
• Etc etc

If your Commander has an effect which requires you to discard itself as a cost to activate, and you have not yet attempted to Summon it that game, you can activate that effect at the appropriate time by sending it from the banished zone to the Graveyard instead.

You cannot otherwise interact with your Commander until after it has been successfully Summoned or its Summon has been negated. Once you have either Summoned your Commander or its Summon has been negated, it goes to whatever zone is appropriate when it leaves the field. So if it is destroyed, it naturally goes to the graveyard and you could later revive it with a card like “Premature Burial” if appropriate.

If your Commander is a Spell or Trap, you can play it from the removed from play area at any time you would normally be able to play that card from hand. “Embodiment of Apophis” can be activated directly without first being Set.

(Further Rules and Exceptions Found HERE)