Before 2005, the only widely used Flip Effect monster was Magician of Faith, and often at only a single copy. Perhaps the most notable shift in the meta between the 2004 Chaos format and the 2005 Goat format was the vastly increased use of Flip monsters. Delinquent Duo, interestingly enough, was the only member of the original Spell Ruler hand control trio of Spells to survive into this format, with The Forceful Sentry and Confiscation sitting squarely on the Forbidden List despite Delinquent Duo arguably being the most powerful of the three as it eliminated two cards from an opponent’s hand. These two cards are great examples of cards that are very powerful in their own right, but still objectively worse than the cards that were previously widely used.
In place of Raigeki and Harpie’s Feather Duster, cards like Heavy storm and Lightning Vortex were played. The cards used to fill in the gap left by the first two Forbidden Lists were, although less powerful than their predecessors, still strong cards overall. To make up for all of these lost power cards, the deckbuilders of the time turned to other cards that had been largely set aside in prior formats due to the existence of much more powerful alternatives. Warrior Lady and Mystical Space Typhoon went down to Limited. Cards like Raigeki, Harpie’s Feather Duster, The Forceful Sentry, and Imperial Order were Forbidden all at once, while D.D. After surviving two consecutive Forbidden Lists, however, Chaos lost many of its power cards to the April 2005 Forbidden List. Warrior Lady, while building up enough Graveyard presence to Summon one of the two Chaos monsters available at the time. This deck was able to rely on the field control offered by three copies of D.D. In 2005, competitive Yu-Gi-Oh! was coming out of its first experience with a meta dominated by a single, powerful deck, known by many as Chaos. This format is named after the major deck that dominated the metagame of the time: Goat Control. While the state of modern Yu-Gi-Oh! is largely unrecognizable from what it was ten years ago, one particular era of the game has persisted in the community's memory.
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