GoatFormat.com
  • Home
  • New to Goats?
    • What is Goat Format?
    • Why Play Goat Format?
    • How Do I Play Goat Format?
  • How to Play
    • Card Pool & Banlist
    • Rules & Policies >
      • Ruling Notices
      • Basic Mechanics
      • Individual Card Rulings >
        • Rulings (A-C)
        • Rulings (D-E)
        • Rulings (F-H)
        • Rulings (I-K)
        • Rulings (L-O)
        • Rulings (P-R)
        • Rulings (S-T)
        • Rulings (U-Z)
    • Play Online
  • Strategy
    • Beginner Strategy
    • Advanced Strategy
    • Card of the Week
    • Talking Goats
    • Duel Reviews
  • Decks
    • Tier List
    • Decks
  • Tournaments
    • Tournament Coverage >
      • World Championships >
        • 2024
        • 2023
        • 2022
        • 2021
        • 2020
      • Goat Format Championships
      • Goat Grand Prix
      • Shonen Jump Championship Freeroll
      • Historic Premier Events >
        • SJC Indianapolis
        • SJC Seattle
        • US Nationals
        • SJC Charlotte
        • SJC New Jersey
    • GoatRank
  • Store & Support
    • Store
  • Privacy Policy

Goat Format World Championship Qualifier Deck Tech: Thunder Cat Chaos Turbo

3/27/2021

7 Comments

 
The Goat Format World Championship qualifier tournament has begun! Thirty-six contestants ​battle it out for a chance at the World Championship (and the awesome championship belt) later this year! One such warrior is community staple TheNano. Known for his creative deck building, today Nano is proving once again why his name is synonymous with innovation. 

Deck List

Picture

​Overview

Often considered one of the best (if not the best) decks in the format, Chaos Turbo is as popular as it is successful. The key to the deck is Thunder Dragon, which can act as a strong card advantage engine when combined with cards like Graceful Charity, Card Destruction, and other cards which ask you to discard, like Raigeki Break. This strategy is often made more consistent with the addition of the powerful discard fodder Night Assailant.

Thunder Dragon also makes it much easier to summon powerful Chaos monsters, like Chaos Sorcerer, which allows the Chaos Turbo player to play more copies of the card than they otherwise might. 
Picture
With these engines active Chaos Turbo can quickly overwhelm an opponent with card advantage and threats, while still having a very strong late game.

​TheNano's version of Chaos Turbo takes these concepts and turns them up to eleven, as he includes one of the most infamous engines of the format, Rescue Cat, side-by-side with Thunder Dragon. 

Player Insight

It's a strange combination indeed, but one that Nano is confident in. Rather than speculate on the reasoning or strengths of the card choices, we've asked Nano to explain just what the heck is going on with this deck! 
​
It's a regular Chaos Turbo deck, running an eight card Cat engine over other dark/flip monsters. Rescue Cat is basically a Thunder Dragon with the DARK attribute when it searches Des Koala plus Wicked Worm Beast. This play gives us a DARK flip for Assailant to grab, or a Chaos monster to summon off of. It also gives Book of Moon an aggressive use. Simply setting Koala turns the Book into a one-for-one when it might be dead or a minus-one. Opening Thunder Dragon plus Rescue Cat with these search targets means a live Sorcerer and Assailant, plus four less cards in the deck. That's something regular Turbo can't achieve without Charity or Card Destruction.

The other Rescue Cat play is to search for two Wicked Worm Beast. It's a plus-one play which plays perfectly with the large discard engine, making Raigeki Breaks and such always live in the early game, and increasing the power of Card Destruction or Charity by a large margin. Worms are also nice to attack with and keep hand count high, and they play perfectly with the flips in the deck. They are the great face-down bluffs to catch anti-flip cards, especially game two when facing Mind Control or Creature Swap.

​Koalas have fine enough stats to be playable, and they can crush opposing Thunder Dragon decks or win stalls very easily. All of these give a great amount of potential damage and free threats, which plays well with how the rest of the deck can easily clear boards.

​That's some cool tech! Wicked Worm Beast has definitely been seen as a pet card by Nano before, and it's interesting to see the different ways they've been able to implement it and Rescue Cat into various strategies, both old and new. 

Conclusion

Unfortunately, TheNano had some bad luck against Gravekeepers in round one of today's event. Here's to hoping he can find his groove and fight his way to the finals! 
7 Comments
Myth
3/27/2021 07:13:42 pm

Can you guys stop spotlighting Nanos garbage ass decks

Reply
Asterix
3/27/2021 07:41:55 pm

Hey Goatformat-Team, please don't listen to him, its always interesting to gain insights of creative or alternative Deck ideas! :-)

Reply
Antonio Giustino
3/29/2021 07:56:23 pm

I actually love Nano's decklists he is my favourite deckbuilder

G.O.A.T. Fixer
3/30/2021 05:52:43 pm

Sounds like a future feature match if you guys ever match up in a tourney.

Might not be smart/safe but my money is always on TheNano! Gl

Reply
Ryan Spicer link
3/30/2021 07:05:25 pm

Agreed this list looks really bad. BUT, I was thinking about something similar at work, so even though I expect this to perform poorly, I'm going to build it up to play to get a better idea of what's going on here..

Reply
TheNano link
3/31/2021 05:55:47 am

I Guess i'm more suited for helping rather than being judged, but motivated feedback and collaboration are welcome.

Reply
J
3/31/2021 08:08:05 am

1- Cat into worm is a nice idea, but it was better in the previous decklist . In this case , is pretty unconsistent.
2- Is very funny that some people , talks about how good/how bad is a deck, without knowing basic games rulings (Ryan Spicer, you know what I mean man)
3- for goatformat.com , share bad decklist it doesnt make sense, everybody knows that Thenano is an excellent deckbuilder, but is not the only one, so you should watch around you .

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Categories

    Upcoming Live Events (Goat Grand Prix)

    Tournament Coverage/Deck Lists

    Goat Grand Prix Application

    Hall of Fame

    Play Online

    Strategy: Advanced
    Strategy: Beginner

    Tier List


    Archives

    April 2025
    March 2025
    February 2025
    January 2025
    December 2024
    November 2024
    October 2024
    September 2024
    August 2024
    July 2024
    June 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    January 2024
    December 2023
    November 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    August 2023
    July 2023
    June 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018

    RSS Feed

Copyright © 2015
  • Home
  • New to Goats?
    • What is Goat Format?
    • Why Play Goat Format?
    • How Do I Play Goat Format?
  • How to Play
    • Card Pool & Banlist
    • Rules & Policies >
      • Ruling Notices
      • Basic Mechanics
      • Individual Card Rulings >
        • Rulings (A-C)
        • Rulings (D-E)
        • Rulings (F-H)
        • Rulings (I-K)
        • Rulings (L-O)
        • Rulings (P-R)
        • Rulings (S-T)
        • Rulings (U-Z)
    • Play Online
  • Strategy
    • Beginner Strategy
    • Advanced Strategy
    • Card of the Week
    • Talking Goats
    • Duel Reviews
  • Decks
    • Tier List
    • Decks
  • Tournaments
    • Tournament Coverage >
      • World Championships >
        • 2024
        • 2023
        • 2022
        • 2021
        • 2020
      • Goat Format Championships
      • Goat Grand Prix
      • Shonen Jump Championship Freeroll
      • Historic Premier Events >
        • SJC Indianapolis
        • SJC Seattle
        • US Nationals
        • SJC Charlotte
        • SJC New Jersey
    • GoatRank
  • Store & Support
    • Store
  • Privacy Policy