NeoGoat Tournament Report — May 21

 Yesterday’s NeoGoat local brought 18 players for 4 rounds of play, with three recorded feature matches showing a pretty varied field.

Chaos was still present, but this event also gave space to stranger builds: Plant engines, Skill Drain, Equip Warriors, Earth Beasts, Monarchs, and Zombies.

Round 1 Feature Match

Red-Eyes Plant Skill Drain vs Monarch

The first video showed one of the most unusual decks of the night: a Red-Eyes Plant Skill Drain build.

Against Monarchs, the deck managed to control the pace well. Skill Drain helped shut down key monster effects, while the Plant and Red-Eyes pieces gave it enough pressure to keep advancing the game.

Winner: Red-Eyes Plant Skill Drain

Round 2 Feature Match

Chaos vs Divine Sword Warrior

Round 2 was a full three-duel match between a Chaos deck and a Warrior deck focused around Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade.

The Warrior deck had strong grind potential, using its Equip strategy to keep resources flowing and apply pressure. But after three games, Chaos proved more stable. The deck’s removal, power cards, and comeback potential carried it through the set.

Winner: Chaos

Round 3 Feature Match

Red-Eyes Plant Skill Drain vs Earth Beast

The Red-Eyes Plant Skill Drain deck returned for another feature match, this time against an Earth Beast deck.

This time, the Beast deck managed to break through. With solid bodies, pressure, and enough momentum to fight through the control elements, Earth Beast took the match and stopped the Red-Eyes Plant run.

Winner: Earth Beast

Final Round Feature Match

Zombie vs Earth Beast

The final round featured Zombie against the same Earth Beast deck that had just won its previous feature match.

Earth Beast came in with momentum, but Zombies ended up taking the final match. The Zombie deck’s recursion and efficient pressure were enough to close the tournament on top.

Winner: Zombie

Final Thoughts

This tournament showed a nice mix of NeoGoat ideas. We had Chaos, Warriors, Monarchs, Zombies, Plants, Skill Drain, Red-Eyes, and Earth Beast all showing up in relevant matches.

The most interesting part was seeing non-standard decks actually reach the feature table and win games. Even when Chaos is still one of the most familiar choices, NeoGoat continues to leave room for strange engines and forgotten strategies to compete.

Decklists and videos will be shared in the next post.