Reasoning Gate Combo
The Reasoning Gate Combo deck utilizes Reasoning and Monster Gate to special summon powerful monsters and aims for a one-turn kill with Dimension Fusion.
What is Reasoning Gate Combo?
Reasoning Gate Combo (also sometimes known as "Reasoning Gate Turbo" or "H.A.M.") is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Goat Format deck distinguished by 3 copies of Reasoning and 3 copies of Monster Gate to special summon powerful monsters like 2-3 Sacred Crane, 1 Jinzo, and 1 Dark Magician of Chaos from the deck. These monsters are light and dark attributed in order to support 3 Chaos Sorcerer and 1 Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning. While the deck can win purely off the advantage from powerful tribute monsters or quick access to chaos monsters, the deck also runs 2-3 Dimension Fusion as a finisher, with Heavy Storm or Giant Trunade to clear all spells/traps before the big kill.
Reasoning Gate Combo Strategy
Reasoning Gate Combo is a high-synergy combo deck that plays a passive early game until it can build a big board with Reasonings and Monster Gates. These cards put plenty of lights and darks in the grave for the deck’s chaos monsters. Then you can bring back your entire banished zone with Dimension Fusion. This allows the Reasoning Gate Combo to establish an overwhelming field advantage, if not win the game outright.
Reasoning Gate Combo Core Interactions
Both Reasoning and Monster Gate will mill several cards from the deck to the graveyard until they find a monster that can be normal summoned. They will either find a game-changing monster like Dark Magician of Chaos or Jinzo, or they will find a Sacred Crane for a light and a card draw. Going through the deck rapidly allows Reasoning Gate Combo to summon its chaos monsters much faster than most decks, and a full graveyard provides more spell targets for Dark Magician of Chaos. To maximize the effect of Reasoning and Monster Gate, the deck plays only a few monsters, each with different levels to make Reasoning difficult to guess correctly. Like many decks in Goat Format, Scapegoat can play a very integral part in Reasoning Gate Combo’s strategy with 3 copies of Scapegoat and usually 3 copies of Metamorphosis. Scapegoat is great for stalling the game until the deck has enough combo pieces to go off. More importantly however, the Scapegoat tokens can be used as tribute for Monster Gate, so Scapegoat itself is arguably a key combo piece for the deck. Reasoning Gate Combo will seek to combine Heavy Storm or Giant Trunade (and, in some decklists, Byser Shock) with Dimension Fusion to set up a one-turn kill. Dimension Fusion is the deck’s big finisher, and it interacts well with the deck’s chaos monsters as well as Dark Magician of Chaos. Dark Magician of Chaos can easily bring back several spells in one game (often including the Dimension Fusion itself) by using Dimension Fusion to bring it back from the banished zone. Banishing Dark Magician of Chaos via tribute for Monster Gate in order to bring it back with Dimension Fusion is quite common.
