The new ban list is out and now its time to hear some responses.
Tell us what you think about the list.

ADVANCED FORMAT LIST EFFECTIVE APRIL 1st



I. Forbidden Cards

You cannot use these cards in your Deck or Side Deck:


Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of The Beginning
Butterfly Dagger - Elma
Change of Heart
Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of The End
Cyber Jar
Dark Hole
Delinquent Duo
Exchange of The Spirit
Fiber Jar
Harpie's Feather Duster
Imperial Order
Last Turn
Magical Scientist
Makyura The Destructor
Mirage Of Nightmare
Monster Reborn
Painful Choice
Pot Of Greed
Raigeki
Ring Of Destruction
Sinister Serpent
The Forceful Sentry
Time Seal
Tribe-Infecting Virus
Witch Of The Black Forest
Yata-Garasu

NEW! - Cyber Jar, Dark Hole, Exchange of the Spirit, Last Turn, Time Seal



II. Limited Cards

You can ONLY use one of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:


Book of Moon
Breaker The Magical Warrior
Call Of The Haunted
Card Destruction
Ceasefire
Confiscation
D. D. Assailant
D. D. Warrior Lady
Dark Magician Of Chaos
Drop Off
Exiled Force
Exodia The Forbidden One
Graceful Charity
Heavy Storm
Injection Fairy Lily
Jinzo
Last Will
Left Arm Of The Forbidden One
Left Leg Of The Forbidden One
Level Limit - Area B
Lightning Vortex
Limiter Removal
Mage Power
Magic Cylinder
Mask Of Darkness
Metamorphosis
Mirror Force
Morphing Jar
Mystical Space Typhoon
Night Assailant
Pot Of Avarice
Premature Burial
Protector Of The Sanctuary
Reckless Greed
Right Arm Of The Forbidden One
Right Leg Of The Forbidden One
Sacred Phoenix Of Nephthys
Sangan
Scapegoat
Snatch Steal
Swords Of Revealing Light
Thousand-Eyes Restrict
Torrential Tribute
Treeborn Frog
Tsukuyomi
Twin-Headed Behemoth
United We Stand

NEW! - D. D. Assailant, Drop Off, Graceful Charity, Last Will, Level Limit - Area B, Mask of Darkness, Mirror Force, Pot of Avarice, Treeborn Frog



III. Semi-Limited Cards

You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck & Side Deck combined:


Apprentice Magician
Creature Swap
Deck Devastation Virus
Emergency Provisions
Good Goblin Housekeeping
Gravity Bind
Magician Of Faith
Manticore Of Darkness
Nobleman Of Crossout
Reflect Bounder
Reinforcement Of The Army
Upstart Goblin

NEW! - Apprentice Magician, Deck Devastation Virus, Magician of Faith, Nobleman of Crossout, Reflect Bounder
NEW! - The following cards are no longer Limited: Abyss Soldier, Book of Taiyou

I think it's terrible. X_X

Let's put Magician of Faith at two, and to make it even better let's unban Graceful Charity.

What could they possibly be thinking?! We are going in reverse now.
Chaos Control = Cookie Cutter
Dark World is now very playable
They did nothing with Spirit Reaper. X_X
Mirror Force for Dark Hole is not much of an exchange. They are both good. I guess I'd rather have Mirror Force over Dark Hole.

So, basically what I am seeing here is that they ban cards that have no effect on us like Time Seal and unban broken cards like Graceful Charity.

Actually do you know about the knew OTK involving Mask of Darkness, Tsukuyomi, and time seal or drop off?

anyway yeah i agree it does suck.

Yes, but no one uses it. It is of no threat to us; however, Graceful Charity, MoF and Chaos Sorcerer are.

Cyber Jar! Crap, there goes Vindictive, Merchant and MoF control. Mirror Force is back, after I traded for 2 billion Sakurestus. ._.

Drop Off, limited? Well, I'm not some serious expert with specific names for decks like Monkey, so eh.

Dark World will be bigger with Graceful Charity back. Obv.


Anyway, I'm glad it's out now at least.

CCCC is back! :(

As I have said before, I already have a CCCC deck built for the new format. The ban list didn't really do too much but I will say there is a little more thinking involved. Cyber Dragon should've been limited to 1. Cyber Dragon is game changing and an early killer.

I will be making a Dark World deck soon so I'll see how much Graceful helps.

Cyber Dragon should be to 1 cuz there are the other new cyber dragons in SOI. But i guess cause yugioh is a global game so they have to follow what japan does also.

This was already posted. XD But I guess a new thread works better.

Mirror Force is preferable to Dark Hole. It's not as broken...by much.

At least D.D. Assailant got hit. Cyber Dragon needed it much more, but this time apparently Konami was more worried about killing OTK than actually changing the metagame.

That is, with the exception of returning Graceful Charity. Woohoo, we now have a zuber Dark World card. ._.

Actually Vash, the guy that one today's Regional's in Texas was using a tsuky lock deck lol.

But anyway, the list doesn't fix any of the problems we had. I would have liked to see reaper and/or cyber at 1. But hey, we got graceful and 2 NoC back. Hooray for that.

yes, now with NoC and MoF back to 2 and graceful back you probably won't see magical merchant or locomotive back anymore.

Well at least NoC balances out Faith.

I love the new list. I understand their reasoning. I'm gonna miss Dark Hole though.

for starters....mirror force will only be back for these 6 months then it WILL be banned again...merchants may stilled be slightly played but not too many dekos, more of tsuko for the new format, golld will be over played, and who cares about book of taiyou? this ban list probably wont effect the current meta game too much...at least in my opinion.

The new list is retarded. They tried to destroy a deck which wasn't even good.

The trend shows that Konami's IQ drops every 6 months.

Good Notes:

- Bounder was never good.
- Abyss Soldier was not good with Sinister gone
- 2 NoCs are needed.
- Graceful Charity is needed.

Destroying good cards create bland formats like the current one.

And if a DW player uses GC just scooop, it's not worth playing against them after they +3. I and a lot of other people are prone to believe that this does not give them the stability that they need.

Even with Graceful out DW is still inconsistent and i still think very few will win SJs or Regionals.