OGFC Ulti Pot Tournament Metagame Breakdown
The Online Goat Format Community's first tournament features 44 players with Goat Control being the most represented deck, followed by Chaos Control and Reasoning Gate Turbo.
A brand new Yu-Gi-Oh! facebook group known as the Online Goat Format Community just kicked off its first tournament! 44 players entered, and the winner will be taking home an ultimate rare Pot of Greed. With the tournament’s first round of Swiss now wrapping up, now would be a great time to take a look at the deck breakdown for the event! Here are the decks being represented in the competition...
Detailed Deck Breakdown
13 Goat Control 4 Chaos Control 4 Reasoning Gate Turbo 4 Thunder Dragon Chaos 3 Flip Control 3 Gravekeeper’s 2 Burn 2 Stun Aggro 2 Zombies 1 Bazoo Dimension Fusion Turbo 1 Drain Burn 1 Empty Jar 1 Gearfried 1 Monarchs 1 Strike Ninja 1 Warrior Toolbox There are a whopping total of sixteen different decks being played in the tournament! Goat Control takes up just over a quarter of the field with more than three times the representation of any other deck being played. However, many other solid strategies are also being piloted by various duelists: Anti-Meta Warriors variants, Chaos Control, Reasoning Gate Turbo, and Thunder Dragon Chaos are all seeing a fair amount of use as well. Rounding off the list are some off-meta, but equally viable, deck choices: Flip Control, Gravekeepers, and Burn are each being represented by three duelists, while other decks like Empty Jar, Bazoo Dimension Fusion Turbo, Strike Ninja, and Monarchs are getting some time to shine in the spotlight too. It goes without saying that even though Goat Control is the most represented strategy, the large variety of decks being used by the duelists participating in the event has resulted in a very diverse tournament metagame!
Breakdown by Classification
It is also worth taking a look at the deck classification of all the decks being played in the tournament, and that is as follows:
Control decks take up over half of the tournament metagame, which is somewhat to be expected: Goat Format is named after Goat Control, the historically most successful deck in the format, for a reason. The majority of the more popular and effective decks in the format not named Goat Control, such as Chaos Control, Thunder Dragon Chaos, and Flip Control, are all commonly understood to be control decks as well. However, aggro and alt-win/combo decks are both seeing a good chunk of representation, while "midrange" decks like Zombies and Strike Ninja are also seeing a small amount of play.
Other Observations
