Scapegoat

An obvious choice to review ahead of the link summoning format, Scapegoat has incredible appeal that should be even better if the game slows down as much as some of us are predicting. This is especially in light of knowing Missus Radiant needs earth monsters.

While slow, there’s no escaping the inevitable conclusion most of us have reached: if link summoning is the future, Scapegoat gives four costless material to summon them. It’s as simple as that. Now, besides the fact it can’t be used effectively on your own turn, a reasonable argument against this spell card that has been put forth is that there’s no reason to believe this card will make a difference if it didn’t do anything for synchros. But the difference is obviously that Scapegoat doesn’t also provide you with a tuner. Since link monsters can use tokens freely with no other requirement, Scapegoat can literally become two Missus Radiant, or up to 3 Link Spider, or a Gaiasaber. It’s a veritable toolbox of link monsters at your disposal.

Frankly, the return of Scapegoat as a potential gem is exciting. We haven’t reviewed Scapegoat since 2010, but it has been much longer since it was truly relevant. But the return of tokens as a desirable weapon also means Scapegoat should be a real player. If I was forced to bet money on a card most likely to get restricted in the future that is currently sitting at 3 on both the OCG and TCG lists, it would be Scapegoat. 3 copies means 12 material for link monsters. That sounds insane.

Advanced: 2/5

Future Potential: 5/5

Hello Pojo Fans,
 
Scapegoat will always be a useful card.
 
You get 4 tokens that will either fill your board up, or save your bacon when your opponent is swarming you. These little guys can be turned into attack mode, then given to your opponent via a card effect and help you deal damage to them. Goat then Creature Swap is a fun play to pull on the opponent. Play around the no Special Summon restriction by chaining this during your opponents turn. Destiny Hero – Plasma loves this card. Card effects needing a tribute love this card. Synchros can be made using these Level 1 cuties. This card is great, always has been, always will be. It can still fit into several decks, and as it is unlimited, you can run 1-3 copies of it depending on your strategy. 
 
Advanced-4/5
Art-5/5
 
Until Next Time

Hi everyone, I'm Syn. The latest addition to the Pojo Yu-Gi-Oh! COTD team. I'm a British duelist who plays control and wishes Konami would reprint Unity soon.

Todays COTD is Scapegoat, a quickplay spell that had the honour of having an entire format named after itself. It's a fairly simple effect that creates 4 tokens at the cost of not being able to summon that turn, but you can still set. Those tokens can't be tributed for a tribute summon, but they can still be used for synchro, ritual, special tributes (Such as a Kaiju) or very soon, Link monsters if the conditions are correct.

As a quickplay spell it enjoys the benefits of being able to trigger from your hand in your battlephase, or during your opponent turn to protect an open field from attacks or during main phase 2 or the end phase to set-up some form of summon in your turn after.

Advanced 3/5 Goat control is still a strong deck, but not as fast or able to benefit as much as it used to.