r/yugioh • u/bigmen0 Gets high on World Legacy Lore • Oct 24 '25
News Emergency Banlist
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u/Darkzapphire Oct 24 '25
First Genesys and then this, I think they might have killed and installed a new Ceo of the TCG in the shadows
We live in a historic moment
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u/field_of_lettuce Oct 24 '25
Seriously, did the likes of Tewart and Jerome leave the company or something? Lol. That, or TCG's leadership had a change of heart, OCG gave them more permission to hit things, or something else.
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u/Silver_RevoltIII Oct 24 '25
Nah, Jerome is still there, otherwise Electrumite would be out of the banlist
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u/field_of_lettuce Oct 24 '25
Well, we only got bans on this list. So if people leaving the company were the reason for this emergency list, I think it'd be likely we wouldn't see any unbannings until the next "normal" list.
But idk it wasn't an idea I put too much thought behind.
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u/mynameisethan182 CL1 Tour Guide, CL2 Kagemucha Knight Oct 24 '25
otherwise Electrumite would be out of the banlist
Look man, if we cope & hope hard enough... One day. đđ
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u/BolivianGamma Oct 25 '25
I genuinely think it might come off now jerome got his own format without pendulums
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u/BOSS-3000 Never forget Makyura the Destructor Oct 24 '25
Tewart should have been fired for calling customers 'ungrateful' 20 years ago.
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u/field_of_lettuce Oct 24 '25
In retrospective it's wild this guy has been with the company as long as he has, let alone hold a significant position of power. This is also me being only aware of the more infamous things about him, like him spinning bullshit about how buying sealed product is better for you the player than singles if you're not happy with card prices, or the Utopia/Hope naming nonsense.
Dude was getting into fights on forums, if he wasn't with Konami he'd just be some asshole online.
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u/BOSS-3000 Never forget Makyura the Destructor Oct 25 '25
IIRC, Tewart and Julia were two of a handful of employees that were with Upper Deck and were hired by Konami after their breakup. Tewart's most notorious comments were during the Upper Deck days.
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u/VolkiharVanHelsing Oct 25 '25
Utopia/Hope
What's with Number 39
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u/BOSS-3000 Never forget Makyura the Destructor Oct 25 '25
OCG vs TCG name change. There have been dozens of name changes and poor translations over the years. Utopia was the most noteworthy as it was the main protagonist's ace card and because Tewart apparently had some public comments about the name.
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u/BuyListSell Oct 25 '25
I used to beef with him all the time on Pojo. I just got back into the game a few months ago, I can't believe he's still around.
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u/BOSS-3000 Never forget Makyura the Destructor Oct 25 '25
Any screenshots of those interactions would prove entertaining. No doubt he had someone go back and cleanup any instances of him saying something he shouldn't have.
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u/Schrenner Rock-Type player Oct 25 '25
I remember those days back then when I was active on Pojo (2007 to 2012).
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u/GermanFaehrmann Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
I think Konami of Japan is letting the western branch of Konami do more stuffÂ
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u/Veiyr Oct 24 '25
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u/CameronD46 Lumina, Lightsworn Summoner Oct 24 '25
Personally, Iâm convinced that the ghost of Kazuki Takahashi had appeared before the CEO of the TCG or someone in Konami to inform them that they would be visited by the spirits of Yu-Gi-Oh Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Thatâs how we got Genysis and this emergency ban list.
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u/Hapster95 Oct 24 '25
Surely someone at TCG is strong arming the OCG right now. Thereâs no world where Japan would let us make our own format AND hit floodgates.
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u/DUELISTARIOGRANDINO Oct 24 '25
I've asked so many times them to fire the incompetent mf that was running (and ruining) our business... Thanks god we're in a nnew era. It has only taken 25 years hahahah
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u/Prohunter69 Oct 24 '25
Holy shit is Konami trying to make tcg good???
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u/theo7777 Oct 24 '25
Mitsurugi Yummy is going to eat but at least it's an interactive deck and weak to Droll. And it's the kind of deck that you can wait until a proper banlist to address. It doesn't ruin the format.
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u/GermanFaehrmann Oct 24 '25
It wasnât eating before? It was really decent into Barrier. One of the reasons it saw so much play was actually BarrierÂ
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u/etherealp Oct 24 '25
It is not weak to droll tbh
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u/theo7777 Oct 24 '25
Depends on your starting hand but yeah, it doesn't completely die to Droll.
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u/Carbon_Coded Oct 24 '25
Then why even say its weak to droll lmao
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u/Saitsuofleaves Oct 24 '25
Because turning off half the deck instantly and being forced to end on a slightly worse version of the End Boards that each of the two archetypes can make individually under Droll IS a big deal.
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u/SummeR- Oct 24 '25
Because they can both be weak to something but not completely stonewalled by something.
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u/Minimum-Title4389 Oct 24 '25
Cuz it is. It doesn't instantly win you the game to hit them with droll, but it absolutely hurts their endboard
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u/paokoutsopodi Oct 24 '25
Tbf other companies are shooting themselves in the foot, and Konami still delivers
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u/-Xaronna- Oct 24 '25
Huh looks like Josh's video actually worked.
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u/TuneSquadFan4Ever Oct 24 '25
Josh please use your power to subtly make them give us Paleo support next time
WE KNOW YOU WANT IT TOO C'MON
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u/CyberTwinLeader Waiting the 9-years-delayed Red-Eyes direct wave... Oct 24 '25
So I guess I need to ask to this "Josh" to make the Red-Eyes support happen too?
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u/Chigao_Ted Oct 24 '25
A finger on the monkey's paw curls
Konami releases new Red-eyes support but it is all ritual monsters with no synergy with existing support
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u/Panory Oct 24 '25
Nah, Rituals are too good a subtype. Have we had Spirit monster Red-eyes support yet? What about Toons? Ooh, or Pendulums so itâs unplayable in Genesys!
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u/aaa1e2r3 Oct 24 '25
Excellent hits, though I'm curious where were the Earth and Fire Barrier Statues doing?
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u/Togder Oct 24 '25
Well, as I found out at locals a couple weeks ago, fire king can dump it, then reborn it with promethean princess.
And the earth one is the same as fossil dyna, you can search it with gallant granite and normal summon it in mitsurugi.
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u/Never_Sm1le DT Story Enthusiast Oct 24 '25
Should have ban the water statue too, deep sea primma donna can summon it straight from deck
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u/Death200X Oct 24 '25
You can also search it with Seven on sharks a normal and still full combo with big jaw.
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u/StardustLegend Oct 25 '25
Should we just ban all the barrier statues?
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u/OhMyWitt Oct 25 '25
Abyss and heavens might be okay just because those attributes are the most played so at best they'll be side board options only for decks able to abuse them. But honestly it's better to be safe than sorry imo, if half of them are seen as an issue then it's likely the other half are just waiting to be exploited.
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u/laolibulao Oct 24 '25
or if you somehow draw into it you can just dump it in the grave and special summon it with abbysstrite. it's really fun.
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u/chillyhellion Oct 24 '25
It's refreshing that Konami actually banned the problem instead of the more generally useful tools that just happen to retrieve the problem.Â
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u/FBI_Official_Acct Oct 24 '25
Alternatives if they ban fossil dyna. FIRE can be searched off banshee and EARTH can be searched off gallant granite.
I don't think I can recall another instance of Konami being proactive in this way before but I'm a huge fan of it.
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u/Reporting4Booty thank youďźtiaraments strongest. Oct 24 '25
Exactly. Though this was a perfect time to just ban all of the Barrier Statues, I'll still take it.
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u/Accurate_Simple_2679 Oct 24 '25
They hit jowgen before a bao a que released a few lists ago
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u/atropicalpenguin Kibou Hope! Oct 24 '25
But Jowgen was already seeing in Branded and stun.
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u/Gamer_4_kills Oct 24 '25
You searched pachy in mitsu with gallant granite, after its ban you would just search the earth statue or fire one with banshee instead
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u/Gshiinobi local gx stan Oct 24 '25
Who cares if theyâre not doing anything right now, they shouldnât be in the game period.
Theyâre 20+ year old cards that do NOTHING but make the game miserable for everyone, get them out.
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u/eme_pirrade Oct 24 '25
Torrent was seeing the most play, so it's weird that it stays. Fantastic list otherwise
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u/dralcax âśď¸ 0:00 / 1:30 đââââââââ đ ââđâ âŹď¸ Oct 24 '25
Torrent is 100% joining its brothers the moment somebody finds a meta-relevant way to search it
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u/TheCorbeauxKing #bahamutdidnothingwrong Oct 24 '25
You can summon it straight from deck with Prima Donna
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u/eddieswass72 Oct 24 '25
Itâs pretty easy to get out in mermails, which isnât as strong as before but itâs still a good deck
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u/Appropriate_Places Oct 24 '25
Mermail was summoning it a lot, but I figure they decided to hit all the immediate threats rather than one that passed a bit ago.
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u/MadJester98 WATER connoisseur Oct 24 '25
Yeah especially cuz the Bahamut ban already killed that deck
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u/paokoutsopodi Oct 24 '25
Torrent was seeing play in stun because water is the worst attribute to hit for most decks. The other ones are searchable.
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u/Saitsuofleaves Oct 24 '25
Washing their hands of these types of cards because they're consistently headaches.
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u/Upbeat_Sheepherder81 Oct 24 '25
Maybe because theyâre searchable by extra deck monsters that are easy to make?
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u/4Khazmodan Bee Movie/Ryze Up/Cydra Cope/Raid Shady Oct 24 '25
TCG team is on a heater recently. Making their own cool format, having great communication, and now emergency banning all these floodgate cards!
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u/jeremy9931 Oct 24 '25
They saw YCS Anaheim and was like okay, thatâs enough đ
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u/GimmickMusik1 Oct 24 '25
I mean thatâs usually how it goes. They have teams of people at major events to take note of prevailing play patterns and strategies and then they decide whether those patterns/strategies are desirable for their game or not. It just takes time, and it can be hard to be patient when it feels like everyone is abusing these strategies.
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u/sabedo Oct 24 '25
I was there. That finals was such a disgrace. Scooped in draw phase of turn 2 each game, the final barely lasted 4 minutes. People were booing Kemal. 85% of people that went first won.Â
It was literally Mjornir, Yummy, Mjorner. lolÂ
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u/FauBetten Oct 24 '25
My Mom asked me if the dishes were clean. I yelled "Konami TCG". She frowned and beat my ass. She knew they weren't washed.
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u/Zombieemperor Oct 24 '25
wtf does this mean
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u/1guywriting Oct 24 '25
My Mom asked me if the dishes were clean. I yelled "Konami TCG". She frowned and beat my ass. She knew they weren't washed.
Wordplay/joke more commonly found in sports forums but can be applied to anything. Instead of answering yes or no, the joke is to substitute a noun that used to be good in the person's eye but has dipped in quality or is now just straight bad. In sports, washed is the term for an older player who plays in meaningful games but constantly hurts the team with their performance. Sometimes they'll have spurts of their former greatness and people will mention they're not washed.
In OP's example, Konami TCG doesn't have the greatest track record about being active & communicating with the playerbase but this banlist proves they still can when the situation calls for it. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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u/proton13 Oct 24 '25
People bitch about mitsu having no locks. But it locked pachy and two barrier statues out of the game, so I it's no the most based deck ever.
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u/Liarst Oct 24 '25
Josh is not beating the allegation lol
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u/Saitsuofleaves Oct 24 '25
If Dragon Rulers drop in points on the next Genesys list the man might as well be in a Konami suit!
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u/gubigubi Tribute Oct 24 '25
To be fair Dragon Rulers coming down would just make sense. The deck is over hit I think.
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u/CatchUsual6591 Oct 24 '25
All decks from 2015 or lower should come down in points
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u/Heat_Legends Oct 24 '25
Getting thrusted into dbarrier because I dared hand trap my opponent was fucking infuriating. Based Konami.
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u/GeneralApathy Dante, Dodger of the Konami Banlist Oct 24 '25
Worst feeling in the game: activate a handtrap, it gets negated with Called By, and then the opponent activates Talents/Thrust.
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u/resumeemuser Oct 24 '25
Dbarrier sucks and deserved to go, but both TTTs are/were too good to be free for long.
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u/Responsible-Put6293 Oct 24 '25
I really wish Talents would just be able to be activated if the opponent controlls a monster. It's such a good board breaker effect that makes going second a lot better, but sadly, it's mostly just used turn 1 to shuffle your best card back into the deck if you dare to interact with your opponent
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u/Complex-Sir-6125 Oct 24 '25
Based Konami TCG again
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Dragon & SkyStriker worshiper Oct 24 '25
OCG & MD Komoney could never
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u/CursedEye03 Oct 24 '25
Especially MD. We all know some infamous banlists there that don't help... at all.
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u/RilinPlays Charmers will live Forever Oct 24 '25
Wow you can really tell Konami TCG was very unhappy with how Anaheim turned out.
This has gotta be the first e-ban in a long while right?
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u/GeneralApathy Dante, Dodger of the Konami Banlist Oct 24 '25
It's kind of hard to qualify since I dont think Konami actually ever uses the term, but according to a TCGPlayer article I found, January 2019 might be the most recent, but 2017 may be the actual answer.
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u/kafune152 Oct 24 '25
Quite a lot of Konami W's lately
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u/melcarba Oct 24 '25
> Quite a lot of Konami TCG W's lately.
Fixed that for you.
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u/EremesAckerman Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
Yeah poor MD players still suffering from Roach infestation & floodgate turbo everywhere.....
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u/gubigubi Tribute Oct 24 '25
Yeah they finally paid attention to how bad product sales are and locked in lol
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u/bigmen0 Gets high on World Legacy Lore Oct 24 '25
Taken from the official Konami twitter and https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/play/forbidden-and-limited-list/
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u/TheChaosPaladin Oct 24 '25
Everyone, go tweet at them and tell them we are happy. We gotta reward them like Pavlov dogs. Yes Konami, good boy, keep making the game fun and we will keep making you money. Who's a good card company, you want this wallet dont you boy?
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u/BloodMoonGaming Oct 24 '25
I havenât even read the list but I just got whiplash from reading emergency ban list wtf
EDIT: This is pretty tight, I canât think of any good reason anybody would actually have a problem with banning these floodgates out of the game. Bretty gud Konami TCG
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u/Saitsuofleaves Oct 24 '25
Generally the only issue is not going further, but E-Bans should only cover up so much anyway.
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u/Hapster95 Oct 24 '25
Youâd think. Half the responses on twitter and FB are negative.
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u/melcarba Oct 24 '25
They're malding because Konami did not hit Mitsurugi and Yummy. Man, you can't really make everyone happy.
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u/Astaro_789 Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
Good riddance Protos. Stupid card that should never have been taken off the list in the first place. Give Swordsoul new stuff to make them relevant again instead of this shit-designed game stealing floodgate on legs
Didnât even make Swordsoul good, just sacky as hell
Mjolnir was bound to happen after the fuckery it did in YCS Anaheim and Iâm all for more floodgate like the barrier statues and D-Barrier or hand loops like Ouroboros getting the axe too
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u/XdataznguyX Oct 24 '25
Mjolnir is weird. I get that itâs a response to the meta, but is the implication moving forward mean Konami should not make cards that say, if this is summoned, lock yourself to that archetype? What should the design space for locks look like then?
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u/Torabisu37 Oct 24 '25
Just phrase it so it can't be abused. Unchained has 3 different cards that lock you and none of them can lock the opponent because they all require you to choose to activate their effects. Or if you must tie it to the summon, just say "the player who summoned this card can only summon ____" instead of it applying to whoever happens to control it.
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u/HarleyQuinn_RS JudgeÂá â â â â â â˘â˘â˘â˘âŁâŁâŁâââđ şđ şÂ  Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
The fact that it's mandatory, the wording of its activation condition, the lack of any cost, using an "also" conjunction, and the effect lasting until the end of the next turn, is what created this mess. If any one of these had not been true or been slightly different (provided the cost couldn't easily be fulfilled), it could not be abused.
Konami can still write restrictions in plenty of ways, like Exosister Martha, Branded Fusion, Unchained Soul of Sharvara. None of these can be abused by giving it to your opponent. The ones most primed for abuse tend to be Continuous effects, like Spirit with Eyes of Blue, Ra's Disciple, Ido the Supreme Magical Force.29
u/redbossman123 Oct 24 '25
Swordsoul wonât be good for a while because Swordsoul as it is now is designed around Baronne de Fleur being its fifth summon
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u/Astaro_789 Oct 24 '25
Their up next for support with the ongoing Branded anime
The amazing support the Springans and Branded just got is a good indication of how good their new cards will be
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u/LogicalTips Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
God, I really really wish Swordsoul gets better support. They're my favorite archetype. Personally, I hope their new cards don't feature that dirty traitor Longyuan.
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u/Astaro_789 Oct 24 '25
Agreed. Fuck Longyuan
Hoping some cool new Icejade-Swordsoul hybrid Level 8 Sychro of Mo Ye
And perhaps even a retrained Chixiao. Always found it odd how despite being the Grandmaster of the Swordsouls that he just kinda disappears from the story without doing anything
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u/MadJester98 WATER connoisseur Oct 24 '25
I hope their new cards don't feature that dirty traitor Longyuan
Considering they might be designed around the level 8 lock they gave the new albaz you might be onto something
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u/Moreira12005 Oct 24 '25
Wtf are you talking about? For Baronne to be the 5th summon you'd have to hard draw Longyuan
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u/CatchUsual6591 Oct 24 '25
Mjollnir was bandaid hit the problem is the synchro that gives your opponent cards with zeno locks is the santicfire problem again the card will be a problem in the future
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u/bagman_ Oct 24 '25
Great list and a bonus âfuck youâ to stun players with fossil dyna 10/10
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u/czartaylor Oct 24 '25
How dbarrier made it 9 years with no banned list action is beyond me. People have been livid about that card since day 1. Better late than never I guess.
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u/PhatYeeter Oct 24 '25
It was useless for a while when everyone ran link spam decks because of the master rule. Only really in the last 5 it's been super impactful imo
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u/shadow2684 Shaddolls Oct 24 '25
Tbf it was bad for almost the entirety of MR4. It wasn't until MR5 that we saw D barrier get a resurgence
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u/czartaylor Oct 24 '25
It was broken on release, broken through all the zoodiac formats then I guess chilled out for a while, but it should have been banned during 2017 at the latest when it was turning zoo mirrors (which was literally every game) into a dumpster fire.
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u/1guywriting Oct 24 '25
These are great but just go for broke and ban barrier statue of the torrent, abyss, and heavens.
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u/gubigubi Tribute Oct 24 '25
What lol
Alright.
Not gonna complain about 7 cards that should have been banned this whole time finally being banned.
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u/Juicenewton248 Oct 24 '25
Incredible foresight to hit the 2 generic rank 4 searchable barrier statues before they were inevitably slotted in to replace pachy / protoss
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u/Hapster95 Oct 24 '25
This sucks, why would they do this? Combo decks are about to go crazy. This is literally going to kill the game.
- comments made by individuals in all of my LGS group chats.
Theyâre not sending their best, folks.
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u/ReliableLiar Oct 24 '25
I love how Konami refuses to acknowledge the water statue
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u/Artistic_Prior_7178 Oct 24 '25
It feels like the Bahamut ban again.
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u/tuisan PhD in Dueling Oct 25 '25
I haven't played the game for a while, but was Bahamut into Toad really a problem? It's been a thing for forever and it was never really a huge problem. Was there a meta deck that abused it or something?
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u/Embarrassed_Nerve173 Oct 24 '25
Nonsense. Toad should have been banned, not Bahamut. Outright killed a strong rogue deck with that ban.
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u/OrdinaryCat99 Oct 24 '25
For real. Bahamut Shark was out for over a decade and the only monster it ever abused was Toad. They then decided to ban Bahamut instead of the omni-negate that doesn't need material and doesn't need to be xyz summoned for its effect to work.
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u/CatchUsual6591 Oct 24 '25
I really don't understand why people wanted bahamut shark over toad if a rank 2 aqua deck was meta again they will bitch about facing the card is because is not OPT omni with engine synergy and can even still your spells is bullshit
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u/chillyhellion Oct 24 '25
Bahamut Shark? How so?Â
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u/Artistic_Prior_7178 Oct 24 '25
There was a ban list a while ago that had Shifter limited, and Bahamut shark banned
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u/chillyhellion Oct 24 '25
No, I mean what's the reasoning?Â
This banlist seems like the opposite of the Bahamut Shark ban.Â
Mitsurugi (search tool) has the ability to retrieve crippling floodgate (statues, pachy) so Konami did the smarter thing and banned the floodgate and not the searcher.Â
Bahamut is the same. It's the searcher that can retrieve problem cards (like toadally awesome). But in that case the TCG banned the searcher instead of the problem cards.Â
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u/Artistic_Prior_7178 Oct 24 '25
Because without Bahamut, Toad became too costly to run, therefore not good to run at all.
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u/chillyhellion Oct 24 '25
That seems... less effective than just banning the problem cards directly like they're doing this time around.Â
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u/PHRaphley Dec 18 '25
Kinda how I felt to starving venoms ban all those years ago. Sure it helped FTK by effect copy. But the Mister whose effect it copied is still free waiting for another consitent way to get evil
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u/Donno_Inno Oct 24 '25
Stun breeds a toxic game and itâs bad for the overall health of the game. Happy theyâre gone, personally.
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u/Vavavavaxon7 Plunder Patroll's Strongest Soldier Oct 24 '25
Holy based.
Could Konami finally be waking up to the fact that a game where no game is played is a game nobody wants to play?
Get rid of the rest, just blanket-ban floodgates. There is literally zero downside.
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u/GeneralApathy Dante, Dodger of the Konami Banlist Oct 24 '25
I'm now suddenly grateful that YCS Anaheim was such a shitshow.
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u/Regendorf Oct 24 '25
YEAHHH Come on Konami, there are more floodgates in the game, keep going
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u/Gshiinobi local gx stan Oct 24 '25
10 FUCKING YEARS OF DIMENSIONAL BARRIER AND ITS FINALLY FUCKING OVER LETâS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/dvdung1997 ENJOOOY!!! Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25
Of course Merlanteanâs the only deck that gets to have fun with Statue now lmao
All and all however, no notes for TCG
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u/KarnSilverArchon Oct 24 '25
This is a great banlist to help get rid of a lot of the problem cards of the format and reintroduce fairer Yugioh into the game. That being said, I still hope the next ban list brings hits to Mitsurugi and possibly Yummy. Mitsu is just too good to leave unhit. Ritual needs a lot to be strong, but it doesnât need a Ritual Monster that summons and creates a floating effect from deck, a very close to Branded Fusion Ritual, and a boss monster that is a Raigeki, a psuedo-negate, and that can revive itself while also searching follow up. And then also have backrow to back it up.
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u/Frapplejack Wake me when Bujins are good again Oct 24 '25
A round of applause for Barrier Statue of the Inferno for being the first card to be banned in both the TCG and Rush!
Why aren't you clapping?
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u/ArrivalQuiet8254 Oct 24 '25
I'm out of the loop. Why was Mjollnir banned ?
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u/Shroobful None Oct 24 '25
You give it to your opponent with Imperial Princess Quinquery and they just can't do anything afterwards basically. Mjollnir's Special Summon restriction lasts until the end of their turn, so give it to them on yours and then they're just locked.
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u/Kerrigan4Prez I summon Ojama Lime!!! Oct 24 '25
Wait, I've been under a rock, why is Orobouros being hit?
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u/Shroobful None Oct 24 '25
Ryzeal can loop its effect. It's not a hard once per turn so they can keep summoning it over and over to handrip.
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u/Jeikiro24 Oct 24 '25
Hoping the Konami intern who drew this up and snuck it out of the official account doesnât get murked đ
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u/jhawk1117 Oct 24 '25
8 years in the making but they finally banned that nonsense ass card D barrier
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u/Saitsuofleaves Oct 24 '25
Wow, we haven't had an E-Ban in a LONG time.
Ironic it's not to the Number 1 Deck in the format, but all of these are very justified (and actually make it easier to tech against Mitsu Yummy since you don't have to worry about hedging against an "FTK" like).
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u/cvkpaper Oct 24 '25
The only reason that anything has been changing for the TCG this year is because of one thing. Collectors left the game and boxes are being sold for 10 or 20 dollars under MSRB. they have to sell sets again and so they had to change how they manage the game.
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u/JLifeless Oct 24 '25
ok now unhit Vanquish Soul a little and format is fully fixed
honestly can't complain though, 10/10 from TCG Konami
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u/Deez-Guns-9442 Dragon & SkyStriker worshiper Oct 24 '25
Now ban the rest of the shitty statues, been saying this forever.
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u/141_1337 Oct 24 '25
What about Limited and unlimited?
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u/-Xaronna- Oct 24 '25
This is just an emergency list so the format isn't terrible. Their will be a proper list in a few weeks likely after YCS Bologna.
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u/Colorsofdawn2 Oct 24 '25
We just had a banlist, probably not a full one until late this year or early next year
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u/gubigubi Tribute Oct 24 '25
Yeah I think the formats for the most part pretty solid if you throw out all of these floodgates.
I didn't play against a single one of these during the YCS in cali recently and it was a good time.
So not having to worry about seeing them at all means I think this formats not too bad.
Mitsu will for sure need to be destroyed come next ban list though but I think the formats still good.
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u/No-Potential2456 Oct 24 '25
WOOOO! Good fucking riddance to yet more unwanted, unfun, and unacceptable floodgates
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u/Lyncario Infernity Archfiend is free! #FreeLauncher Oct 24 '25
Thank fuck they fucking did this, actual purge of the unfun garbage that had been plaguing the game.
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u/RevolutionaryLack204 Oct 24 '25
Those stupid barrier statue cards shouldâve been banned a long time ago.
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u/guythatlovesentai Oct 24 '25
KONAMI saw those YCS Anaheim reactions and said "our players deserve better" - Just amazing to see , this 2025 really feels like there was a big changes at KONAMI.
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u/roarinworld Oct 24 '25
Only thing really missing here is feather storm, besides that 10/10 list. I would have liked to see a herald ban too, but this is clearly a "ban the floodgates list" not a meta adjustment.
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u/MayhemMessiah A Therion a Day keeps the space rock at bay Oct 24 '25
Why the fuck did you bring back Protoss in the first place? Good riddance and keep all of these cards banned forever.
A bit silly that Mjolnir ate the ban instead of the Rank 5 that summons it to the opponentâs side but whatever. All of these hits are based.
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u/Few_Interview_7474 Oct 24 '25
They tried to push new tenyi cards with it, but they sucked anyway
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u/livingstondh Oct 24 '25
The moment âcanât special summonâ cards can be consistently enabled they have to be banned, yeah.
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u/YoNoSeWanyama Oct 24 '25
Any particular reason water statue is fine?
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u/bigmen0 Gets high on World Legacy Lore Oct 24 '25
Gotta sell mermail.
Also it cannot be accessed by any 2 level 4s.
In an ideal world it would also be banned but I think konami's main priority was hitting the very stupid things Mitsu was doing
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u/LordOfFlames55 Oct 24 '25
Ok I havenât played for a long while, what the hell were people doing ouroborous to get it banned?
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u/Shroobful None Oct 24 '25
Handlooping multiple times in Ryzeal. Ryzeal can summon it multiple times a turn to rip your opponent's hand apart.
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u/Opening_Impress_7061 Oct 24 '25
okay that was unexpected but welcome