Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel banlist: Forbidden, Limited, and Semi-Limited cards
Banlists are common in card games, especially in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. Unlike other card games, the vast majority of the game’s library is available to play. Magic: The Gathering rotates sets out, but Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel keeps most of it around for competitive play.
However, some cards are simply too powerful and need to be banned, or at the very least, limited. Konami makes it a habit to look at their banned list every couple of months, so a card that is banned now could likely be unbanned later.
What is the current list of cards that cannot be played?
Another facet of Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel’s banlist, is that it’s not the same as the physical TCG. There are three forms of restriction in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel: Forbidden, Limited, and Semi-Limited. Normally, players can have three of a card in their deck total.
However, Forbidden cards cannot be used at all. They’re marked with a red circle icon in the game and simply cannot be added to a player's deck. Limited cards have a red circle with a “1” in them, signifying that players can only have one per deck.
Semi-Limited is slightly less restricted and allows a player to have two of these cards per deck, and are marked the same way as a Limited card, but with a “2” instead. This could change in the future, but this is the current banlist for Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel.
Forbidden cards are among the most powerful and game-breaking cards in all of Yu-Gi-Oh! These cards simply break the game, or make particular decks far too meta-shattering to deal with.
Limited cards are also wildly powerful, but keeping them limited to one per deck makes it less frustrating to deal with. These cards can still be found and activated early through combos, but nonetheless, a limit on them is helpful in
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