Every competitive archetype in the April 2005 metagame — with winrates and meta shares computed from real games played on Goat World across every competitive mode — ladder, tournaments, Sit-N-Go, Slifer/Ra/Obelisk, challenges, and the 3v3 League.
All recorded games · 1,765 matches with known decks · auto-updated
Share
39.1%
Winrate
59%
Share
22.7%
Winrate
50.1%
Share
6.6%
Winrate
54.8%
Share
6.4%
Winrate
50.6%
Share
5.8%
Winrate
60.3%
The archetypes below are detected automatically from every deck registered on Goat World. Stats cover every recorded game across all modes; archetypes with too few games show no numbers. For period and game-mode filters, head to the meta dashboard.
Dumps LIGHT and DARK monsters into the graveyard as fast as possible to summon Black Luster Soldier — Envoy of the Beginning and Chaos Sorcerer ahead of schedule, then wins with tempo the fair decks can't match.
Games
1552
Winrate
59%
Share
39.1%
Reinforcement of the Army gives unmatched consistency: toolbox warriors like D.D. Warrior Lady, Exiled Force, and Don Zaloog apply pressure and disruption from turn one.
Games
900
Winrate
50.1%
Share
22.7%
The deck that named the format. Scapegoat, Metamorphosis, and Thousand-Eyes Restrict lock the board while card advantage engines grind opponents out of resources. The gold standard of Goat Format control play.
Games
263
Winrate
54.8%
Share
6.6%
A slower, grindier take on Chaos: trades one-for-one, protects its life total, and deploys BLS only when the coast is clear. Rewards tight sequencing and patient play.
Games
253
Winrate
50.6%
Share
6.4%
Gyaku-Gire Panda plus token generators turns the opponent's own Scapegoat against them — burn damage delivered through combat with a suicidal panda.
Games
229
Winrate
60.3%
Share
5.8%
Reasoning and Monster Gate mill huge chunks of the deck to cheat big monsters onto the board and end games in one explosive turn. High risk, high reward.
Games
134
Winrate
51.5%
Share
3.4%
EARTH beatsticks like Berserk Gorilla and Enraged Battle Ox backed by removal. Puts fast pressure on control decks before they stabilise behind Scapegoat tokens.
Games
101
Winrate
46.5%
Share
2.5%
The Warrior toolbox splashed with the Chaos engine: ROTA consistency plus BLS as a game-ending trump card.
Games
64
Winrate
68.8%
Share
1.6%
Wins without attacking: Wave-Motion Cannon, Stealth Bird, and stall cards chip away life points while walls keep attackers at bay. A classic metagame call against slow control fields.
Games
44
Winrate
56.8%
Share
1.1%
A midrange take on EARTH beatdown: aggressive creatures plus a control shell of traps and floaters that can flip between beatdown and grind mode.
Games
35
Winrate
48.6%
Share
0.9%
Giant Kozaky and Inferno Reckless Summon engineer huge direct-damage turns. An off-meta combo deck that punishes unprepared lists.
Games
35
Winrate
60%
Share
0.9%
Rescue Cat fetches Milus Radiant for surprise one-turn-kill setups amplified by Delta Attacker or mass pumps. Ends games out of nowhere.
Games
33
Winrate
45.5%
Share
0.8%
Dedicated one-turn-kill decks that assemble lethal damage from hand in a single swing.
Games
23
Winrate
47.8%
Share
0.6%
Warriors played fair and slow — disruption bodies, backrow, and card advantage instead of all-out aggression.
Games
22
Winrate
45.5%
Share
0.6%
Generic beatdown: efficient monsters, direct removal, and relentless attacks. The baseline aggressive strategy of the format.
Rescue Cat toolbox combined with burn payoffs — flexible damage from both combat and effects.
Flip-effect monsters — Des Lacooda, Swarm of Locusts, Swarm of Scarabs — dodge removal by flipping face-down while generating advantage every turn.
Pairs the Chaos engine with Return from the Different Dimension for explosive comeback turns that can end the game from almost any board state.
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The Rescue Cat package in a fair aggressive shell: board presence, favourable trades, and OTK potential kept in the back pocket.
First-turn-kill strategies that aim to win before the opponent takes an action. Fragile, polarising, and heavily policed by the banlist.
Dark World Lightning and Ojama Trio style lockout plays that break parity through unconventional resource denial.
The catch-all bucket: every deck our detector can't confidently assign to an established archetype — rogue brews, hybrids, and experimental lists. Because it mixes unrelated strategies, per-deck stats like winrate are meaningless here; we only report how big the bucket is.
6.7% of all games fall into this bucket
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