Deck Idea: Fire Beast Deck

I've been working on a fire beast deck in NeoGoat since Manticore of Darkness is now an unlimited card, Oil card was added and also Flame Tiger. Manticore of Darkness can easily be sent to the graveyard from the deck or discarded from hand and then use it's effect on the End Phase to summon it to your field, Oil will return fire monsters to use for the cost of Manticore.

Iron Blacksmith Kotetsu seems like a good fire monster and it's also a Beast-Warrior. For the side deck, Skill Drain seems to work fine with Manticore and Green Baboon, also Behemoth the King of all Beasts would be a 2700 atk monster that can be summoned with one tribute. I like to use Soul Exchange with Behemoth, you remove opponent monster and get back a beast-type monster from your graveyard. Backfire and Wild Nature's Release are considered here only for the theme of the deck but can be exchanged for more competitive cards.

This is a work in progress, this decklist is not a tested strategy, I'm just presenting it here to start some new ideas, especially for Fire themed decks.

NeoGoat rulings that differ from Goat

 In NeoGoat format some cards are more powerful than in Goat format, here we present 3 examples:

My Body as a Shield

My Body as a Shield can be activated during damage step in NeoGoat format, because it negates card activations. The rule here is that if a quick-play spell, monster effect or trap card negates card activations it can be used during damage step, for example, Stardust Dragon in Edison Format. 

Last Will

The ruling we use here is that Last Will can be activated as a normal spell card, (you can activate this spell it even if you don't have any other card), after that, you can use it's effect if a monster on your side of the field has been sent to your graveyard this turn and you can resolve the effect of your Last Will anytime during the turn, even Battle phase or End phase as you can see in the video, just not inside a chain or other action as this effect is not chainable. Also, you can use more than one Last will, in that case each one will work separatedly, you could also end your turn without using the effect even if you could.

Fox Fire

In Goat Format, if a face-down Fox Fire is attacked, its effect is not applied even though it is face-up when destroyed. But in NeoGoat it can use it's effects even if it was face-down when the attack was declared. The card text seems to specify that it should be face-up at any moment but as you can see in the video this is how it works, so it's more like a Revival Jam.

We will be posting more rulings like these in the future so players can use these cards accordingly.

NeoGoat Banlist August 2025

  Banlist [August 2025]

Changes from last banlist:

Forbidden:

- Reversal Quiz (from unlimited)

- Card of Safe Return (from semilimited)

Limited:

- Hunter Owl (Returning card) - Spirit Reaper (from semilimited)

- Magician of Faith (from semilimited)

Semilimited:

- Necrovalley (from unlimited) - Goblin Zombie (from unlimited)

- Amazoness Village (from limited)

- Mobius the Frost Monarch (from unlimited) - Ultimate Offering (from unlimited)

Unlimited:

- Manticore of Darkness (from limited)

- Gravekeeper’s Spy (from semilimited)

Changes to Card Pool 

Cards Added: 

- Flame Tiger

- Rallis the Star Bird

- Oil

- Dark Dragon Ritual

Cards removed: 

- Amazoness Trainee

- Amazoness Fighting Spirit

https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=17188349 (extra cards August 2025)

Core Card Pool

• The core cardpoool is all OCG cards before Cybernetic Revolution, here are the OCG cards that differ from regular Goat Format.

• OCG-Exclusive Card Pool: Vanillas (including Rituals and non-effect Fusions):
  • https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=10677015 (A-E)
  • https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=10677060 (F-L)
  • https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=10677102 (M-S)
  • https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=10677144 (T-Z)
• All other cards (including Fusions with effects):
• https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=7692100 (1999-2002)
• https://www.duelingbook.com/deck?id=17188308 (2003-May 26th, 2005)

Also, Structure Decks:

Reversal Quiz Forbidden in NeoGoat

 In the last banlis Reversal Quiz got forbidden even though nobody had played that deck in tournaments, until yesterday when some player brought this deck. It had a nice result but the opponents that had to play against it confirmed that is was pretty boring and unfair that they can´'t respond going first. So, we better started by prohibiting this card and will continue to ban o limit cards that make these decks where only one player plays.

Here is an example of what playing Reversal Quiz is like, and playing in a tournament is even worse because is slower, putting all the counters, putting deck upside down (which has the inconvinience to accidentally see cards beyond the top of the deck), etc.

🚨Emergency Banlist! 🚨

 The usual in NeoGoat format is that the banlist and card pool is changed every two months, but this time we had to bring the changes earlier than planned. Here we present the changes that will apply since August 1st, 2025:

Why the changes earlier? Because we want to make the NeoGoat format always enjoable for everyone.

• Card of Safe Return (from semilimited)
• The problem with this card is that it's a continuous effect that you can activate many times in the same turn and snowballing your opponent, everybody were moving to zombie decks in the format reducing variety. Also the presence of cards like Magical Exemplar was a very powerful combo.
• Reverzal Quiz (from unlimited)
• NeoGoat special cardpool make this deck more powerful, we don't want decks that can cause FTK without the opponent doing nothing during the duels, also the combo is time consuming and people must be conscious of which effects were already used, how many counters every card has, all this can make cheating easy for the player since the opponent will get bored. Soon we'll make an entry about this deck.

Limited:

• Hunter Owl (Returning card)
• Not many cards can be used to boost Wind-themed decks so this is a good option but at two copies can cause a lock and also gets very big in attack quickly.
• Magician of Faith (from semilimited) 
• It's a light attribute monster that chaos decks benefits most, also NeoGoat has many powerful spell cards as Heavy Storm, Pot of Greed, Snatch Steal, Premature Burial, those cards can be abused with Tsukuyomi recycling them.
• Spirit Reaper (from semilimited) 
• Some decks have trouble destroying monsters that can't be destroyed by battle, also we wanted to nerf the Goblin Zombie engine that many decks started including.

Semilimited: 

• Necrovalley (from unlimited) 
• Gravekeeper's was a powerful deck months ago, in the July's banlist we wanted to reduce it's power attacking the Royal Tribute which can make you lose your entire hand or with the opponent knowing which cards you have, and also  Gravekeeper's Spy which is used in many decks outside Gravekeepers, but after these changes this deck dissapeared completely. This time we will focus on attacking the Necrovalley that is the card that blocks the Graveyard instead of the Spy that bring another monster.
• Goblin Zombie (from unlimited)
• This is a an OCG card that is included in the core cardpool of NeoGoat format. The problem is that it started to see gameplay as an engine in not zombie-related decks because it's ability to bring a copy of itself or the Spirit Reaper (another very used card). It started appearing everywhere and when people destroy it the opponent just bring another, like an upgraded version of the gadgets.
• Ultimate Offering (from unlimited) 
• This card started to appear in decklists of Monarch decks and Gadgets and the activation in the opponent's battle phase can be annoying.
• Amazoness Village (from limited)
• After the limitation the deck was unplayable.
• Mobius the Frost Monarch (from unlimited)
• We started to include monarch cards in the banlist, and Mobius has been seen in the gameplay videos destroying many cards and overwhelming the opponent.

Unlimited:

• Manticore of Darkness (from limited)
• This card was limited from the very beggining of the format because of the presence of triple Foolish Burial that makes the infinite draw loop easy to achieve. Without Card of Safe Return this card doesn't have the infinite draw loop so no need to be limited.
• Gravekeeper’s Spy (from semilimited)
• We are exchanging a Necrovalley for a Spy in Gravekeeper's deck.

Cards Added: 

• Flame Tiger
• Could make fire decks more playable.
• Rallis the Star Bird
• Could make wind decks more playable.
• Oil
• Fire support card, we want to give it a try.
• Dark Dragon Ritual
• Ritual card to summon Paladin of Dark Dragon, the second effect this ritual spell has can't be used since there are not objectives in the cardpool.

Cards removed: 

• Amazoness Trainee
• Card meant to make Amazoness decks more playable but instead it ended in Warrior or other generic decks.
• Amazoness Fighting Spirit
• Unnecesary card with the field spell at two.

Tournament Report Last Week

 The last week in NeoGoat tournaments we had a winner that used the decklist that was posted here days ago, here we present the matches for the Thursday tournament, also a bonus video from Saturday's tournament at NeoGames Store.

Second Round - 🎖️ Burn vs Dark deck

Third Round - Chaos vs 🎖️Dark Safe Return

Final Round (Thursday) - Burn vs 🎖️Dark Safe Return

Final Match (Saturday) - 🎖️Chaos vs Monarch

Deck Profile: Dark Safe Return

 Congratulations to Pepe Salazar who won Tuesday and Thursday tournaments using this deck that take advantage of NeoGoat special allowed cards. You can see the duels in tomorrow's post after we upload the videos to YouTube.