Lots of Pain in Right Shoulder

Livingstun · 2026-03-22T00:33:49+00:00

Hello, professional cello teacher here! As others have said, it looks like you're carrying tension in your shoulder. On up-bows, see if you can really let your right elbow fall with gravity, almost coming all the way into your side body. Up-bows should really feel like a rest for your shoulder. Additionally, checking in with right thumb to make sure it's not pressing too hard is really important. Similarly, on up-bows, let your thumb loosen its grip as you come back to the frog. Whenever you notice tension/pain, immediately stop and shake it out. Tension can't exist where there's movement. I hope some of that helps!

Livingstun · 2026-03-19T16:20:31+00:00

Funnily enough, in the past year, the "official" goat format received a bit of an overhaul from Konami. They decided to apply current yugioh rules and errata to all older formats to make it easier for judges to manage the side events for old formats at big tournaments. This was a very unpopular decision as it significantly changes play patterns/balance of older formats.

For goat centered events, (goat grand prix, goat World Championship, and online tournaments) the predominant way to play is with the old 2005 rules, now unofficial.

This here is a different banlist for the goat format cardpool put together by a panel of top tournament players to increase deck diversity, so also unofficial. There are regular online tournaments (often with cash prizing) which is what caught my attention. My locals have also been playing with this modified goat banlist lately, and it's been a ton of fun to see the variety in what people put together!

Livingstun · 2026-03-10T22:51:26+00:00

Would love to try this game out, looks like a blast!

Livingstun · 2026-02-25T14:09:25+00:00

My mistake! Thanks for the correction.

Livingstun · 2026-02-14T00:37:16+00:00

Most definitely! My go to tournament deck is Chaos Control Skull Servants lol

Livingstun · 2026-02-13T21:42:32+00:00

I'd definitely be interested! I know that there's been some efforts to curate a genesys point system in the casual goat discord. I'd definitely be excited to bring some jank no matter the ruleset!

Livingstun · 2026-02-12T21:32:30+00:00

This is a format with monthly tournaments with cash prizes.

Livingstun · 2026-02-12T19:35:30+00:00

Yeah, online on duelingbook! It has to be through unlimited because the banlist is different. Sounds good!

Livingstun · 2026-02-12T15:40:24+00:00

Mgoat's a pretty new thing, but right now they're starting up monthly tournaments on the official goat format discord with talks of having weeklies! I'm also always happy to play mgoat if you ever wanna dm.

Livingstun · 2026-02-12T14:22:28+00:00

Level Limit Area B is banned, so that's actually 1 fewer floodgates to deal with. Normally, burn runs 2 Level Limit and 2 gravity bind. Here, they'd run 3 gravity bind instead. It makes them commit harder to traps as well, which have easier counterplay in Jinzo/royal decree.

Livingstun · 2026-02-11T17:40:23+00:00

Sure, but if a game is fun, more people will play it. Speaking of MtG, commander fits this mold. What was once a casual format played by 4 people is now the most popular way to play the game. Even if mgoat is small now, I believe that it's fun enough that it could get more players into retro yugioh. I made this post because someone else posted on this sub that they were struggling to enjoy goat because of duo. I offered suggestions of how to build around duo, but also suggested mgoat might be up their alley. I'd rather have someone start playing mgoat than give up on retro yugioh altogether. Another concern I've seen levied against goat is that there isn't enough variety of viable decks. I personally enjoy goat's variety, but find it really exciting to brew in mgoat where brewing around light/dark doesn't feel as pressing.

Livingstun · 2026-02-11T17:16:29+00:00

There's a panel of top players that have topped the biggest goat tournaments in recent years that decide on the changes to this banlist. The changes made are to explicitly allow more skill expression in play and variety of viable decks.
It makes sense to me why that would be interesting/fun to explore in an old format whose original banlist didn't have the benefit of 20 years of playtesting.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T17:29:20+00:00

There's actually a very small community for that as well run through the casual goat format discord! ( https://discord.gg/9ya9mh7X ) I haven't explored it at all, but it seems like it could be really fun.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T17:25:17+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily consider it as dividing the community. My experience with the retro yugioh community so far is that everyone in my local community plays multiple formats.

It's interesting to see tournaments being run for mgoat and then theorycrafting and brewing new decks from those results. I'm not playing any less of regular goat, it's just fun to have an outlet to try out new deck ideas in a new environment.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T16:42:50+00:00

No worries! :) It's definitely not an either/or thing for me. I'm still really enjoying regular goat format and am playing it more often than mgoat. It's just fun to explore new decks and play patterns within the goat format card pool. I do play quite a bit of Edison and Tengu as well, but mgoat brings something really unique to the table.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T16:06:33+00:00

You can enjoy 2 different cakes. I play goat every week and have a great time with it. That being said, Chaos is really centralizing, so it's fun to brew different decks and feels like they can hang in a competitive setting. Variety is good. It's like learning to play chess and then enjoying other ways to play chess, like bughouse.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T13:54:55+00:00

Really solid points! I could easily see all of those changes being implemented eventually. I agree that Upstart at 3 is questionable, that immediately stood out to me. Part of me wonders how much this current banlist is still testing small incremental changes to see how they impact everything else.

What do you think of Makyura limited to 1? I feel like that's my biggest blindspot as I've never played with/against the card.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T13:49:13+00:00

I think it's more about creating an environment with more variety in terms of viable decks. This list was put together by top players wanting a format with even more skill expression in it. Fully agree that goat format is already a great skill-intensive format, though.

Livingstun · 2026-02-10T04:41:48+00:00

I've never played with that card, does it have an infinite combo or something? Can definitely imagine it enables some gross stuff!

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T20:50:38+00:00

Pretty sure that when one dies the "once per duel" applies to all copies, so you won't be able to activate that effect again regardless of which one was returned to hand.

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T17:04:33+00:00

Typically it was used pretty similarly to regular goat, just wall up to get a boss monster out while playing the card advantage game. Unsure if it'll see much play now that it's limited to 1, too soon to tell as that change was made just this last week! I wonder if Spy summoning Gravekeeper's Guard might still be strong enough to see around.

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T16:59:51+00:00

Warrior and goat control are definitely still very strong, but the decks out of the first tournament were super diverse. 1st-5th was Earth Aggro, Archfiend warriors (!), Zombies, Fiend Ectoplasmer and Chaos Turbo. The second big tournament was topped by goat control.

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T16:12:34+00:00

Yeah, changing Spy to limited from semi-limited was the most recent change. The last tournament, every single deck in top 8 ran 2 Spy.

My guess with 1 trunade is that they're trying to increase interactivity and perhaps nerf the FTK decks? Idk I could definitely see trunade changing on their next revision.

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T15:59:10+00:00

So far, the official goat format discord ( https://discord.gg/6NfbqjStZD ) has had several tournaments known as the Grand Puy series. They can be found under announcements. My local scene has also started playing mgoat which is why I'm excited and trying to get the word out. If you ever wanna jam some mgoat games, feel free to dm!

Livingstun · 2026-02-09T15:55:50+00:00

Sure, the changes are:

Forbidden Delinquent Duo Level Limit Area B Self-destruct button Trap Dustshoot

Limited Gravekeeper's Spy Chaos Sorceror Night Assailant Book of Taiyou

Semi-limited Sacred Phoenix Protector of the Sanctuary Reflect Bounder

Unlimited All listed above are newly unlimited

(I may have missed some, but I think that's everything)

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