Yu-Gi-Oh Banlist 2022: Which Cards Are Banned Now
The Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game’s current banlist contains over 100 banned cards alone - some cards fall into the forbidden category, while others are limited or semi-limited to retain balance. Most other major trading card games, like the Pokémon TCG or Magic: The Gathering, have set rotations, where after a certain amount of time cards from old enough sets can no longer be used in standard tournament play. Yu-Gi-Oh, on the other hand, doesn’t rotate out its cards at all. Cards released when the TCG first launched in 2002 can be used in decks with the most recently-released cards, as long as they comply with the current banlist, otherwise known as the Forbidden & Limited Lists.
In the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG, some cards may become weaker or much stronger as time passes and more cards are made to synchronize with it. For instance, fans who played in 2009 will remember the Synchro Monster Ancient Fairy Dragon not get much play, but after a few years, Field Spell Yu-Gi-Oh cards started getting stronger, and helped Ancient Fairy Dragon’s effect. Now, it’s a member of Yu-Gi-Oh’s substantial forbidden list. No set rotation makes Yu-Gi-Oh a unique game where older cards can remain relevant even after many years, but it makes its banlist crucial and extensive.
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Yu-Gi-Oh uses two main formats: Advanced and Traditional. Traditional format has no forbidden cards; all forbidden cards in the Advanced format are treated as limited in Traditional. Advanced format is the official tournament format, however, so most players abide by it. Normally players can include up to three copies of any given card in their deck, but Yu-Gi-Oh cards that are forbidden can't be included at all. Limited
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