▲ Ability added: This gets +1/+1 when any kind of Goat is hurt.
Strategies[]
With[]
Goat's stats are very low, but it has its own uses. Since it costs 0, it can be played as a free fighter, much like Puff-Shroom, allowing you to save brains for tricks while putting offensive pressure on your opponent. Since it is a pet zombie, it can be useful for Beastly synergies. It is also a good way to fill in the field, as Beastly Pet decks often require rushing and spending many cards. As a free pet card, it works well with Zookeeper and Cat Lady's abilities.
Goat's ability isn't the worst, but it isn't something you would call a good ability either; it can only activate so many times, as Goat will typically be destroyed upon taking damage, and boosting Goat, of all zombies, is a waste.
Hover-Goat 3000 also counts towards Goat's ability and can take more hits due to its Bouncing ability, but it only activates once per turn normally, and twice at most (if Hover-Goat 3000 is hurt during the Plants Play phase and is teleported back in the Zombie Tricks phase). But the more Goats on the field, the more useful its ability becomes, although it should still be treated as extra gravy.
You can pair this with Secret Agent in turn 1, and you can play this and Synchronized Swimmer, making two 4/4's in turn 2, which is a pretty strong play as there are very few ways to actually counter them this early into the game.
Against[]
Almost every attack from any plant or damaging trick will be able to take it down as it only has one health, so there should not be any difficulty defeating it. However, its ability can be troublesome, especially if there are many Goats on the field as rush decks can easily boost them. Using a plant like the Snow Pea, combined with a team-up plant for protection, against the goat will allow you to slowly chip away at its stats without retaliation, should they somehow become overwhelming. This will shut down the goat, at the cost of potentially losing an entire lane's worth of usage due to both sides of it being occupied while you wait for the goat to die.
As Rose, avoid transforming a zombie into a Goat if there is a Cat Lady, Unlife of the Party, or Zookeeper on the field, as they will get boosted from it. If the zombie is transformed in Graveyard, the goat will also hide in a gravestone, making it harder to deal with as it will only reveal itself in the next turn.
Goat's statistics before update 1.2.11 (note its plant classes)
Goat's Heropic
Goat's card
Goat's card
Goat being made by Goatify
Goat attacking from the player's point of view
Goat attacking from the opponent's point of view
In other languages[]
Please note that only official translations are used.
Language
Name
Description
English
Goat
Simplified Chinese
山羊
Traditional Chinese
山羊
French
Chèvre
German
Ziegenbock
Italian
Capra
Japanese
ヤギ
Korean
염소
Brazilian Portuguese
Cabra
Russian
Козел
Spanish
Cabra
Trivia[]
If Goat is played normally, the Goatify animation (in which a zombie is hit by a red ray of magic) will still be played.
Before update 1.2.11, it was the only card in the game with the opposing side's classes, being Kabloom and Smarty, which are the classes that Nightcap leads.
However, Rose's classes are Solar and Smarty, which are different.
Beastly class. It can also be transformed by Goatify, Rose's signature superpower.
to play and has 1
/1
. It does not have any traits, and its ability gives it +1
/+1
Deadly trait
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Brainy
Crazy
Hearty
Sneaky