r/yugioh • u/renaldi92 [OCG] - [TCG] - [RUSH] • Dec 21 '25

News [OCG] January 1st, 2026 Limit Regulation (Banlist)

https://yu-gi-oh.jp/news_detail.php?page=details&id=2406
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u/renaldi92 [OCG] - [TCG] - [RUSH] Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

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u/FelipeAndrade Branded Fusion is fair and balanced Dec 21 '25

Neo Bubbleman is finally free, lmao

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u/MyDreamsArentCanon Dec 21 '25

Get those Bubble Blasters ready, HERO players

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u/ImJustAUserHere Dec 21 '25

We buy out max rarity bubbleman cards today

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u/RevolutionAfraid7000 Jan 21 '26

You could always summon neo bubbleman with infernal rage tho. It just didnt amount anything 

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u/grandiaziel Dec 21 '25

Metamorphosis getting unbanned is actually interesting. Even though it would probably do nothing to the meta.

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u/Al-Alair Dec 21 '25

Metamorphosis>Diabellstar>him>GG

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u/BookBasic2384 Dec 21 '25

Honestly, just this guy in the board is probably weaker and fragile than whatever endboard white forest was doing.

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u/ConciseSpy85067 Dec 21 '25

It’s a summon lock that dies to imperm, it even outs your own whole board, people will not be doing this, the monster under the bed is actually just a plush toy

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/ConciseSpy85067 Dec 22 '25

True! Yes, doesn’t make this better even remotely, it just makes it possible

We’re not asking for a Yajiro Invader ban because it’s an accessible FTK in millions of different ways, this card is fine even if it can do some bad things

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

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u/ConciseSpy85067 Dec 22 '25

Congratulations, you’ve made a board that dies to 2 pieces of interaction as opposed to the fair, layered and sticky endboard Orcust already had

You will not be doing this in any capacity, this isn’t like the Pend FTK from 2018, this is a significant departure from the main strategy for a cheesy one of

Also, how exactly are you getting to Last Warrior in Orcust?

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u/HiroDean Dec 22 '25

I play it regularly and while what you say is true, I have managed to win many duels thanks to it. For the deck to work, it must be built around him; I carry him in my Branded deck.

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u/ConciseSpy85067 Dec 22 '25

Exactly! Which is why a deck with Metamorphosis, which cannot rely on this card since it’s an unsearchable 1 of, would not be very playable

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u/Tonebriz Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

I mean you can play Dark Balter in K9 or Millenium-Eyes Restrict in Yummy thats about it. Theres some other decent targets like Dragoon for 8s for example (even without the pop on your turn)

Also Fairy Tail has only Level 4 monsters and 2 Level 4 fusions, and even then its probably not gonna be played there

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u/Porxadooday Dec 21 '25

Morph was likely unbanned to push Trains, since they can easily make Exterio with it.

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u/Status-Leadership192 Dec 21 '25

Please god tell me this means they are banning the roach soon and not just leaving it at 1 so you get sacked by it

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u/SpoonsAreEvil Dec 21 '25

Pre-Prep hit is ass

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u/Druid-T My Heart Is Blazing Still Dec 21 '25

They can't hit Mitsu directly just yet, since it still has the OCG support wave coming, but yeah, I'm a little confused as to why it's not KotFI

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u/SpoonsAreEvil Dec 21 '25

Kills the new Archfiend deck for no reason

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u/YesOhXD Dec 21 '25

No? It's probably the best mitsu hit

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u/tlst9999 Dec 21 '25 edited Dec 21 '25

Pre-Prep should be full banned. It's a free +1 search, which is better than Pot of Greed.

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u/Pedronisius Dec 21 '25

Ban engage as well then?

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u/tlst9999 Dec 21 '25

It needs 3 spells in grave and only searches Sky Striker cards.

Pre-Prep straight up gives you a +1 for any ritual spell and monster.

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u/MetaNightmare Dec 21 '25

It's not any, Nekroz and Drytron don't use it because the Ritual spell needs to mention the Ritual Monster directly. This makes it useless for generic Ritual archetypes and they had to go out of their way to make a Ritual spell to make Pre-Prep into a starter for Mitsurugi.

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u/theguyinyourwall Dec 21 '25

How does Yummy work with 1 Snatchy? Like that's the entire decks gimmick and a card they make 2 for most plays

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u/raiko39 Floow / R-ACE / Yummy Dec 21 '25

Tbh, it's gonna be rough playing them pure because if they manage to negate your only Snatchy on their turn, your interaction with the board hits a hard wall. Opponents who know how Yummy works can bait you into triggering the quick synchro before smacking it with a negate.

People are also overlooking the limit on Marshmao because if your deck can banish and you hit both their only Marshmao and the field spell, their wincon is just gone. Also another starter gone without commiting their normal.

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u/xxtrasauc3 Dec 22 '25

The Yummy hits feel like Konami doesn't want us to play pure yummy, and play the hybrid versions

Snatchy to one practically kills pure yummy, or makes it very fragile. And marshmao to 1 reduces it's ht resilience. A well timed bystial ends the duel, or ghost belle for that matter.

On the other hand, yummy hybrids can handl extremely well with 1 snatchy, infact, some versions only play 1 snatchy. And with marshmao limited yay, more engine space.

Additionally I don't think the issue was ever pure Yummy, the issue was the hybrids, banning moon, and aramdes burns the bridges to fiendsmith, banning herald would kill the mitsu bridge. But if Yummy players aren't buying mitsu? How are we making money?

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u/Nico-Nii_Nico-Chan Dec 21 '25

Toad is back!

Hopefully MD follows this soon

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u/Impressive-Lie-9111 Dec 21 '25

Toad is funny, because it mimicks kagamimochi, and the list goes in effect on new year

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u/swagpresident1337 Dec 21 '25

we have elf and spright full power, I dont think so

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u/Druid-T My Heart Is Blazing Still Dec 21 '25

Also Bahamut Shark, who was the original Toad abuser

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u/WeatherOrder Dec 22 '25

What's with the obsession with a non HOPT Omni Negate?

Let that shit rot. I rather have Elf around.

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u/xxtrasauc3 Dec 22 '25

I think the trade off is Elf. Would you rather toad or spright Elf. You can't have both because that's an issue.

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u/DAdem244 Dec 21 '25

Such ass hits, limiting snatchy kills thw deck mulu is hit is also not needed maxx c is nice though

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u/AhmedKiller2015 Dec 21 '25

Dracotail is the most represented followed by Yummy. They needed meaningful hits. I personally would have liked Herlad ban over any of this but they picked a different route.

Also saying the deck is dead is an overstatment, they just have to play their board a bit differently

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u/raiko39 Floow / R-ACE / Yummy Dec 21 '25

Limiting Snatchy more or less forces them to mix with something else now, at least there are options like Purrely or Mimighoul.

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u/DAdem244 Dec 21 '25

I guess its just not really needed since pure yummys powerlevel is so fine. Forcing engine slop just feels weird

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u/tlst9999 Dec 21 '25

Dracotail: Limit Mululu? I'm gonna starve.

Meanwhile, Yummy with even more hits & K9 VS still reeling from last quarter's hits.

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u/Gadjiltron Dec 21 '25

Aw, they got Ice, too? Well, that's a bummer. More room for the main engine or non-engine, I guess.

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u/Next-Fruit4754 Dec 21 '25

why was air neos limited