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Gravekeepers

1/14/2019

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Goat Format Necrovalley

What is Gravekeepers?

Gravekeepers is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Goat Format deck distinguished by its 3 Necrovalley and a variety of Gravekeeper monsters. These monsters include 3 Gravekeeper's Spy, 1-3 Gravekeeper's Guard, 1-3 Gravekeeper's Spearsoldier, and 1-3 Gravekeeper's Assailant. As support, they play 2-3 Terraforming to search out Necrovalley and a larger than average trap lineup with 3 Solemn Judgments. The deck usually plays Tsukuyomi for synergy with Gravekeeper's Spy and Gravekeeper's Guard or Skill Drain to shutdown all monster effects. Gravekeepers is mostly an aggressive deck that deals damage through the effects of Gravekeeper's Spearsoldier and Gravekeeper's Assailant.

How Does Gravekeepers Work?

Gravekeepers play a similar strategy to Anti-Meta Warriors, only that they use Necrovalley to lock down the opponent instead of cards like Blade Knight and King Tiger Wanghu. Both Gravekeeper's Spearsoldier and Gravekeeper's Assailant can punch through Scapegoat tokens to deal damage to the opponent. Gravekeeper's Spy can also lead to significant damage by searching another Gravekeeper monster, which combined with Necrovalley will be a total of 3700 attack points. Both Gravekeeper's Spy and Gravekeeper's Guard can be combined with Tsukuyomi to keep up the pressure.
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Gravekeepers Example Decklist

https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=2992881
Gravekeepers Goat Format

Why Gravekeepers are Viable

Chaos decks are significantly more popular than they used to be, which Gravekeepers love to play against because Necrovalley shuts down their key boss monsters. In addition, Gravekeepers do well against some of the graveyard-reliant combo decks in the format, like Reasoning Gate Combo and Empty Jar. While playing against Goat Control can be tricky, the fact that Gravekeepers can deal with Scapegoat very easily keeps them competitive in the matchup. Overall, Gravekeepers have some consistency issues to potentially deal with but can stay competitive against most of the popular decks in the format.
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Another aggressive anti-meta strategy is Anti-Meta Warriors. If Gravekeepers aren't working out for you, consider trying them instead.

Do you have any questions about Gravekeepers or want to share your own Gravekeepers decklist? We’d love to hear from you in the comments. Want expert help to construct your own Gravekeepers deck? Then join our Discord server.

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ACP is a co-founder of GoatFormat.com, along with Skully. He has been an active contributor to the revival of Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Goat Format from 2012 onward. In 2017, he created the Angel Chaos deck, a notable contender in the Goat Format metagame. He has a long history of being a TCG content creator, first for The Game Academy (now defunct) and later for GatheringMagic.com. He has placed in the top32 of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series three times. A mathematician by profession, he is known for his logical and analytical approach to gaming.

5 Comments
Some guy link
1/16/2019 11:21:40 am

why 3 compulse isn't that a bit excessive I can see why you need it but I feel 3 is too much is there some cards to replace that instead?

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Biagio
3/20/2019 06:55:09 am

hi, what do you think of a gravekeepers' deck with warriors? i'm testing it but i can't decide if it is better than a pure gk deck.
it seems more consistent, less necrovalley-based and more various, but why do i not see many of them on db, youtube and so on?

PS: last time i wrote a comment, i didn't receive any notification for other comments even though i had written my email and clicked on ''notify me''. don't know if it was a bug

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Omar Santana link
9/2/2019 12:36:21 am

Yo bro, mind sharing the deck list? I'm curious to see what your take on GK + warriors is like :)

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Biagio
9/2/2019 05:00:09 am

Search for Anteaus's build on Google

Charm of shanti
2/15/2020 06:51:16 am

Anteaus has a couple versions of his deck. Two that he's made public articles on and a third that he shared updates for on format library discord. I don't know it if any other revisions exist but just letting you know. Also, thinking about it, his version might be what eventually led to the idea of Monsanto aggro. And that is just the aggro beatdown decks with wanghu, blade knight, and kycoos

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