Cat Control
com Discord regular TheNano, Cat Control is a hybrid aggro/control deck with some design links to Goat Control and its play style. It is based on the interaction between Rescue Cat and The Wicked Worm Beast.
Overview
Designed by Goatformat.com Discord regular TheNano, Cat Control is a hybrid aggro/control deck with some design links to Goat Control and its play style. It is based on the interaction between Rescue Cat and The Wicked Worm Beast. Normally, all monsters that are summoned via the cat are destroyed at the end of the turn. However, Wicked Worm Beast is instead returned to the Cat player's hand. This creates a "plus one", leaving the Cat Control player with two extra monsters in hand.
Using these free monsters, the Cat Control deck will poke at the opponent while maintaining card advantage and board state with its support cards. If the opportunity arises, Cat can be used for a large push in damage, but such plays are not necessarily required.
Metamorphosis is also put to good use, summoning Thousand Eyes Restrict (TER) off of goat tokens, or a previously cat-called Milus Radiant. After removing threats or stalling the game out, Restrict may be tributed for Manticore of Darkness, a threat difficult for many strategies to deal with.
Deck List
Below is Nano's list presented in his deck profile. This version helped him make top placements in the ranked ladder, and has potential against many strategies. Pandas deal well with opposing goat tokens, while Worm Beast makes it difficult for enemy TER to suck up monsters and become an actual threat. Alongside Trap Dustshoot, these cards make the strategy well suited against the format's namesake deck.
Monsters
1x Breaker the Magical Warrior
2x Gyaku-Gire Panda
2x Manticore of Darkness
1x Milus Radiant
3x Rescue Cat
1x Sangan
1x Sinister Serpent
3x The Wicked Worm Beast
1x Tribe-Infecting Virus
1x Tsukuyomi
Spells
1x Delinquent Duo
1x Graceful Charity
1x Heavy Storm
3x Metamorphosis
1x Mystical Space Typhoon
2x Nobleman of Crossout
1x Pot of Greed
1x Premature Burial
3x Scapegoat
1x Snatch Stea
Traps
1x Mirror Force
1x Ring of Destruction
3x Solemn Judgment
1x Torrential Tribute
3x Trap Dustshoot
Additional Card Options
Emissary played alongside The All Seeing White tiger (which can be found with Cat as well) gives the deck even more potential to get ahead in trades, or in general gain or maintain card advantage.
Wing Blast and Raigeki Break are both powerful removal options that are made possible thanks to the card advantage engines of the deck.
- Emissary of the Afterlife + The All Seeing White Tiger
- Phoenix Wing Wind Blast
- Raigeki Break
