When jazz made his format library website in 2016, the hot new idea for monarchs was “ aggro monarch,” a deck that cut soul exchange entirely in favor of brain controls (which weren’t legal when sandtrap topped with the deck in April). suddenly, the two most popular decks were incidentally soul control’s two worst matchups. in this matchup, the core combo of thestalos+soul exchange going second would meet an opposing thunder dragon or sinister serpent in approximately half of your games. Things only got worse for soul control during the exarion-based goat format war league in 2014, when thunder dragon chaos decks began to appear (these decks were completely nonexistent in 2005). sandtrap himself switched off the deck sometime after nationals by SJC Indy in August, he was experimenting with gravekeepers, resulting in this tragic/hilarious match. So, how does the deck survive in this new environment? well, for a while, it didn’t. before the battle position ruling change that pushed scapegoat and metamorphosis over the top, soul control was a cutting-edge answer to stuff like zombies and chaos control (the proto-goat decks that played similar monster cores, typically with 2 scapegoat and 1 metamorphosis, not to be confused with the decks we now call chaos control that typically play multiple copies of chaos sorcerer), but when multiple mained tsukuyomis became the standard, playing a monarch-based deck meant that you were weeks behind the curve.
Soul control is something of an antithesis to goat control. it’s also no secret that it’s not exactly popular in goat format not then, not now. It’s no secret that i think soul control is one of the coolest ygo decks of all time.
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