A Guide to HAT Format Yugioh - The Best Format in Yugioh History 

Personally I think this format was the perfect mix of speed and combo climbing balanced by back and forth play.

my friend bought the traptrix structure deck which included hands and he was so confused and when i explained how hat worked he was really surprised it would all work together

Thankful for making such a comprehensive how-to guide for this format!! I remember playing Battlin Boxer and Lightsworn as budget options back in the day right before DUSA hit!

It’s crazy having lived through the Hat format and now it can be considered a retro format lol. Same with other formats that had infernity, inzektor, wind up, mermail, fire fist, bujin, Dino rabbit also Duelist alliance format. Lol

My favorite deck in that format was Machina Gadget with redox. Redox was such an awesome addition to the deck, synergizing with the gadgets as a recurrable defensive option, reborn for gadget plays or fortress, and enabling rank 7 plays. I also like chain summoning gadgets. Not the great, but super fun, allowing you to spam 3 rank 4s turn one

Id love to see a format summary of Duelist Alliance format. That was my favorite.

i love this format so much, it was the most balanced format we ever saw with so many decks playable and able to compete but having a beautiful trio of main decks this was peak yugioh

Madolche was my hat format deck. It was so much fun. I legit never beat mermails the whole time but it was still a good time.

Oh boy the nostalgia seeing these deck lists, It's being amazing looking at a retro format that I ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY BACK IN THE DAY!

tbh i think the best point about the format that both control with a lot of traps are viable thanks yo artifcats but also wombo combos thanks to soul charge it create a very interesting environment

I genuinely believe this is the best yugioh format ever and it's not close. It really felt like sooooo many decks were viable. My personal favorite deck was sylvans, I loved how explosive they were which was special in a compatitively slow defensive format, most decks weren't like that in HAT. Nowadays of course it isn't special since every deck plays almost the exact same lol.

I lowkey expected artifacts in infernity just for the meme of setting monsters in S/T. And then I saw freaking Fusionist in the ED.

Great video, love so many of these decks, DW is one of my favs ever

This was great, I think I’ll make this my Time Wizard format of choice.

I appreciate the work that went into this but since I don't know the 5 other ppl that plays this format, I fear this informative video might've been for nothing

If only konami cared as much for older format as you. Thanks for your work !

I love the Xyz era of Yu-Gi-Oh!. It just barely prefaces the craziness that starts with Arc-V, allowing for more tempo-based gameplay that's like a more modernized Goat Format. Plus, HAT Format has Battlin' Boxers as a rogue option, and for that I love it. I once sold my friend a Slifer from Battle Pack 2 and bought the entire BB deck- it ended up being the bane of their YGO games every time haha!

Awesome and informative video

I see my favorite deck of all time, X-Sabers, down there and am just thankful seeing gottoms face at all. Love them so much. Even without rescue cat in HAT.

My deck in that time was Lightsworn Ruler, and Chaos Dragons turbo, good memories.

This is the only way I can enjoy Yugioh these days, and I feel that Geargiakuri has potential to be higher tier, but it needs some more exploration for sure. Ever since Aureum turned it into a combo/midrage deck that is basically boomer Earth Machine rather than an unga bunga otk deck, it's been doing much better

love your videos mftcg :)

I think one of the top 3 side deck cards is debunk, since it can negate almost anything against 85%ish of match ups, remaining 15% being geargia and others. Also, fun mention: in bujins 3 copies of dna surgery is mandatory for the spellbook match up because it can prevent spellbooks activation

Let's not forget that because of the slower format, Quasar is surprisingly powerful. I have really fond memories of running a TON of Quasar decks around this time.

I wish people in my area would play this format. My favorite mechanic is xyz summoning I just love Rank 4 control decks so I’m sure I would really enjoy this format.

Used to sweep locals with wind-ups during this time. Excellent access to all the xyz toolbox

I can't believe u got a rata cameo!

Could u explain us the difference between early mid and late hat format and which is the best in your opinion?

I build 2 Same HAT Deck for mirror .... A friend Play this for First time .... After 5 rounds he cant get enough and want more .... Best Format ever made

I see so many Upstart Goblins... Can't we have "HAT without Upstart Goblin"? Or even better, "Every format without Upstart Goblin"! Make the decks three cards more interesting!

"i just wanted to talk about noble knights again" is the most cute, neurodivergent-typed thing to say ♥️ (atleast it resonates with my nd heart who does the same stuff) now this out or the way: thanks for making this video. i wanted to get back to ygo but i'm always on a budget. especially since i play force of will mainly

I notice you didn't go into Garunix, Hero, Dark World, or Harpies. How do you think these would fare in a HAT format setting? Asking because I already have a lot of the core cards for those decks and I've been looking to try HAT for a while now. I'd rather use a deck I can already reasonably build instead of having to buy a whole extra set of cards. Granted I do still have Battlin' Boxers, but I like having more than one deck available so that I don't get pigeonholed through side decking.

I think you could play more decks in Edison and late tengu format.

You can't just put Worm Zero in Rogue and not elaborate!

First!

My second favorite format of all time.

LIGHTSWORN RULERS BEST DECK

After this, they introduced decks that float endlessly like burning abyss, dragon rulers and shaddolls and it all went downhill.

There's 4 Noble Arm Excalibers in the Noble Knights main deck

I like how HAT format doesn't have sacky cards like Trap Dustshoot or Delinquent Duo.

If Maxx C is legal than im steering clear.

Why u running 4 copies of Excaliburn

Maybe a nitpick, but shouldn't this format be considered June 2014 instead of April? The format is named after HAT, which didn't exist until Primal Origins was released in May. Sylvans were also not competitively viable until Primal Origins. Most people also consider the Lightsworn structure deck to be part of HAT format, and that released at the end of June and introduced Raiden and the new synchro. Lightsworn got multiple tops at the WCQ championships including 2nd at the European championship. April 2014 was YCS Vegas format, not HAT format. YCS Vegas and Mexico City were the only premier events that month, and the most successful decks were Geargia, Mermail, Bujins, and Dragons

Infernity not being Meta is wild cap. I was topping crazy in that era.

Wrong this u can play gadgets different ways u don't have to play the trapticks cards