🚨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.