Hindsight Format

[Supreme Slayer 6]

Hindsight Format is a retro-styled custom format built off of Goat Format, but with a 100% community-voted banlist and  expanded cardpool devoid of most of the cards in sets which defined later formats. We hold a tournament every month over duelingbook over at the discord, with votes for changes to the format held in June and December of every year. You can read the full mission statement and rules here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OJzD6ouXRiLIHG7lvv8ao15v2v3f5wUYNOhmJ_OATBw/edit?usp=sharing

Hindsight Format Cardpool includes Every Card in Goat Format + These Cards (Broken down in the google doc above) and uses the same rulings as in Goat Format for cards, except all additions from outside Goat Format use their most recent card text and ruling (except where it contradicts Goat Format rules).

Mission Statement

Spoiler

Official ban lists are both inefficient and prone to corruption in the name of profit. They don’t take into account all of the new cards that will be released during their time and what their impact on the metagame will be, and in fact are incentivised not to do so, to make players want to buy the newly broken cards that won’t be hit until the next list. 

 

In addition, the understanding of the game by both players and the company has greatly increased, leading to some of the old practices for banning/limiting/semi-limiting cards being seen as archaic.

 

All of this leads to what this format is: A hindsight look at the old form of Yu-Gi-Oh!, where players can enjoy the slower and more back-and-forth playstyle of the game, and enjoy seeing and playing with the cards they knew and loved from back in the day.

 

This is a special, community-driven, non-competitive format that allows players to play such a format, very similar to Goat Format, but less metagame-focused and with less instantly game-ending or difficult to answer cards, and with a slightly larger card pool to accommodate for additional strategies. While the card sets allowed are increased, key bans/limits are also made to allow for roughly the same gameplay experience. If you already have a Goat Format deck, you can probably use it in this format with 2-6 card changes!

 

 

Edited October 18, 2024 by Supreme Slayer
Edited card pool

[Supreme Slayer 6]

We had a recent format vote, so some new changes were made, including the introduction of every non-effect monster that met the "oldschool standard". I also got a new viewable cardpool. https://ygoprodeck.com/cube/view-cube/19494