Wednesday, August 6, 2025

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.



Monday, August 4, 2025

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.

Deck Idea: Fire Beast Deck