The Forbidden Pact Tournament showed us once again that Gadgets are among the most reliable and flexible engines in NeoGoat. With 23 players and five rounds of competition, several duelists piloted Gadget-centered builds — and despite their similarities, the differences in tech cards and control choices defined who made it to the top.
🥇 Winning Deck: Monarch Gadget Control
Main Focus: Consistency, removal, and Tribute advantage
Main Deck Highlights:
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Gadgets (2–2–2) form the recycling engine, ensuring constant hand presence.
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Monarchs (3 Thestalos, 2 Zaborg) deliver hard removal and hand pressure.
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Heavy removal lineup: 3 Book of Moon, 3 Brain Control, 2 Nobleman of Extermination, and 2 Smashing Ground let the pilot control tempo efficiently.
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Trap lineup focuses on universal removal — Trap Hole, Widespread Ruin, and Bottomless Trap Hole, maximizing punishment for any summon.
Playstyle:
The deck dominated through tempo control — trading one-for-one while setting up Monarch tributes to snowball advantage. The balanced use of both spell and trap removal made it adaptable against any archetype, especially Monarch mirrors and control decks.
Side Deck Insight:
Inclusion of Rivalry of Warlords and Ancient Gear Beast shows preparation against swarm decks and effect-heavy builds.
🥈 Second Place Deck: Berserk Monarch Gadget
This variant kept the core of Monarchs and Gadgets, but splashed Berserk Gorilla for extra aggression.
Stronger midgame damage output, weaker against defensive decks.
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Shared cards: Brain Control, Smashing Ground, Trap Hole, Dust Tornado, Widespread Ruin.
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Good idea: Horn of Heaven in the side deck — a counter against Tribute-heavy decks and Chaos builds
🥉 Third Place Deck: Bazoo Rock Gadget
Perhaps the boldest version — combining Bazoo the Soul-Eater and The Rock Spirit for pressure and faster finishes.
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Shared with others: Gadget engine + heavy removal suite (Fissure, Hammer Shot, Smashing Ground).
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Unique feature: Raigeki Break and Phoenix Wing Wind Blast provide discard synergy for Bazoo’s banished setup.
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Mask of Restrict in the side deck was a clever tech, shutting down Monarch-heavy fields.
This version leaned on Mystic Swordsman LV2 and Dark Scorpion - Cliff for removal and backrow control.
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Yata-Garasu reappeared as a rare but interesting election for the forbidden card— possible lockdown potential.
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The deck replaced Monarchs entirely with warrior aggression and spell/trap removal via Dust Tornado and Raigeki Break.
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4-Starred Ladybug of Doom in the side was an excellent meta call versus Monarchs and Gadgets alike.
Draw Power Gadget (Decree Control)
An experimental control variant using Jar of Greed, Legacy of Yata-Garasu, and Royal Decree.
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Idea: Disable opposing traps and cycle through the deck quickly to maintain constant field presence.
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Chiron the Mage offered extra spell/trap removal.
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This build traded the Monarch power for stability and consistency through draw power — a solid counter-meta call.
Gadget Core Analysis
Across all builds, several trends stand out:
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Gadgets are the soul of these decks — providing endless +1s and consistent Tribute fodder.
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Mass removal spells (Fissure, Hammer Shot, Smashing Ground) are nearly universal — simple and reliable.
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Trap Hole-type effects dominate the meta, punishing any summon-reliant deck.
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Tech diversity was key: Shrink, Rivalry, Mask of Restrict, and Royal Decree all appeared as counter-choices against specific threats.
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