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    April TCG Forbidden & Limited List Update

    SatchmoBy 72 Comments

    5 unbans…

    Effective from April 15th, 2024 in North & Latin America
    Effective from April 22nd, 2024 in EU, ME, Africa and Oceania

    Forbidden

    Linkuriboh
    Baronne de Fleur
    Borreload Savage Dragon
    Summon Limit

    Limited

    Archnemeses Protos
    Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls
    Thunder Dragon Colossus
    Majespecter Unicorn – Kirin
    Chicken Game
    Anti-Spell Fragrance

    Semi-Limited

    Armageddon Knight
    Purrely Delicious Memory

    Unlimited

    Destiny HERO – Malicious
    Orcust Harp Horror
    Speedroid Terrortop
    Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage!

     

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    Number XVII. Former Cardfight Coalition staff. Former Duelistgroundz staff. They be like "Gosh Darn Satchmo, why you still on that block ish?"

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    72 Comments

      • S.G on

        Why Ban baronne!?! It was an essential part to board-building.

        That ain’t fair whatsoever, also linkuriboh isn’t even that good.

        But the other decisions are fine.

        Except Malicious going to 3, cuz Hero is already broken as it is.

      • Flare on

        SG, bro… what paint are you huffing? Generic, high stat omni-negates are too easy to put out in today’s meta. Maybe the board-building will have to adapt to in-theme strategies or random techs, and I’m all for it.

        As for linkuriboh… do you not know of Snake-eyes/Fire kings???

      • Ehs on

        Generic negate boss monsters are just too bad for the game designs in a long run. There’re decks that’s arguably fair with them, but most of the time they will just be abused by whatever high power level decks that can spam bodies on board. Even a deck that focus on spamming lvl 1s can summon it out.

      • S.G on

        Yeh, snake eyes fire king uses it, but linkuriboh isn’t too powerful to deserve the ban, I mean relinquished anima does kind the same thing but without the bonus effects.

        Without barronne less power in synchro decks. Sometimes a barronne is needed to make a strong board. I k negates are annoying to deal with, but come on, if we were to ban negates, why haven’t we banned imperm yet, or other negate cards that are much more easily accessible and usable.

      • megarv2 on

        por que cara logo agora que ia fazer um deck que precisa de linkuriboh porra konami pqp

      • Samuel Mincer on

        the problem is they dont use their brains to do anything regarding the banlist. For example instead of banning the new Agido, Kelbek, and limiting Keldo to 1 they could have gone wait they are only strong if you have “Exchange of Spirit” in your graveyard and banned that but no they are to stupid to use their brains. the same is true for WoTC the company that made MTG. There are cards on their banlist for the commander format that have much more overpowered versions that are not banned, example being Prophet of Kruphix which does the following “You may cast creature spells as though they had flash” and “During each players untap step, untap all your non land permanents”. Comparison being Seedborn Muse which does the following “During each players untap step, untap all your permanents”. Both cost 5 mana one being 2 green and 3 other the other being 1 blue 1 green and 3 other. I would rather deal with Prophet of Kruphix untap only nonland cards and giving only creature spells flash as opposed to untapping everything you control and playing a whole new turn basically during each players turns respectively.

      • N on

        Konami is really trying to get everyone to stop playing the Extra Deck staples so they can sell their less generic alternatives.

      • Dragon_Fang303 on

        Linkuriboh getting banned is gonna hurt my mediocre dino deck though. And I haven’t even got to take it to a tournament yet.

      • Ehs on

        Konami releases generics = they want us to buy staple. So greedy.

        Konami bans generics = they want us to buy non staple. So greedy.

    3. Duelistjd on

      Wait dragon ruler hype inbound more flood gates gone. Man summon limit got brought back last year or the year before right? Oh no chicken game vs Ashen and more. Well I guess we getting a crazy format soon. The list did nothing to my deck or ideas

      • YukaREEE on

        I’m slightly surprised Summon Limit is gone since it’s one of the true ways to just shutdown Snake-eyes (even though every other deck would be collateral from it’s use, too) but another floodgate hit is good in my books.

      • Jiminator on

        Summon Limit is snake eyes’ best tool post side; you can just send it to the grave after stunlocking your opponent.

      • MNXdeam on

        i finaly built heros and when i take it to a tournament half way through it they release this godly banlist

      • #Illusions be cool on

        Baron=Not Snake Eyes
        Borreload=Not Snake Eyes
        Summon Limit=RIP to the Snake Eyes Destroyer.
        But why Linkuriboh?
        I mean, Snake Eyes could just go in to another generic link 1 so it doesn’t hurt the strategy that much.
        Also, what’s stopping them from using Malicious for easy link Material?

      • #Illusions be cool on

        But why Linkuriboh?
        I mean, Snake Eyes could just go in to another generic link 1 so it doesn’t hurt the strategy that much.
        Also, what’s stopping them from using Malicious for easy link Material?

      • Jiminator on

        linkuriboh lets snake eyes dodge imperm/veiler which is what makes the deck so strong.

    9. Claire on

      Cannot emphasize enough how glad I am to see Baronne gone. Rest in piss to the unofficial boss monster of every Synchro deck in the last half decade.

      • Graphite Storm on

        The issue wasn’t her good effects. It got banned because it was “abused”, since it was TOO EASY to Synchro Summon. I SERIOUSLY hope they gonna do a new errata, so she can come back.

      • Sky Striker Bedge on

        It’s not going to be errata’d. It wasn’t banned in the OCG. The TCG doesn’t have the authority to errata cards lmao

      • haha on

        why is the other comment have RANDOM capitalized WORDS on their comment like are you some kind of a RETARD or SOMETHING

    10. Logic Bomb on

      Damn, this list went after generic negators and floodgates. And then it brought back colossus…(sigh), it’s probably fine, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

    11. HFIL on

      I know people hate on the semi-limit section, but Delicious Memory is a card that I think perfectly fits there.

    12. The Toymaker's Funtime on

      Remind me again, why is Armageddon Knight coming off the banlist and Protos getting unbanned? And why is Linkuriboh of all things getting banned?

      • Relinkuribohcoded on

        To hit Snake – Eyes indirectly, also Baronne to an extent was probably motivated by some Snake-Eyes lines

      • ghoticook on

        Linkuriboh is actually quite a big hit, it’s a Link 1 that allows Poplar activates its GY effect, but more importantly it dodges any target effects onto any of your Level 1 Snake-Eye for basically every turn, and also an Apollousa protector. Bro is mighty powerful.

        Armageddon Knight is 3 in Master Duel and OCG and is not played anywhere outside Orcust, and is played basically as an extra copy of Girsu. Basically powercrept enough to crawl out of the banlist, and generally non-archetypical card have less utility than archetypical ones as well.

        Protos is probably to compensate Swordsoul for their Baronne ban, and looks like TCG is trying to promote archetypical boss monsters rather than generic ones.

    13. The one on

      Baronne gone, time to search for another lv 10 synchro for my accel synchro shenanigans

    15. The one on

      Generic OP cards being banned! Next time apollousa and accescode? 😀

      Tcg realizing generic bosses should be weaker and archetype locked bosses should be better? One can dream

      • Crungus on

        Would be part of my dream banlist to see Apo and Accesscode banned. Sick of every shameless rogue deck vomiting out Link monsters instead of doing anything moderately cool.

    16. Flooberboy on

      Great 3 more months of snake-eyes. Gonna just go find a diffrent hobby konami is full of clowns.

      • WildKamuran on

        they clowning about so hard that they forgot to print the real clowns “Performages” Missing in Anime Limbo land. They clowning for real. why not print for older theme that haven’t seen a lick of support since their printing?

    17. Zandorum on

      I wish they would just hit Snake-Eyes instead of Linkuriboh. Barrone did nothing wrong, Apo is the problem; Apo is easier to make and has more negates (That said Savage Dragon is basically a harder to make Apo so that’s a fine hit, just doesn’t make sense that Apo wasn’t hit before Savage).

    20. Snow on

      Ahh yes, the banlist after Baronne becomes affordable. Such a stupid hit, so many non-competitive decks just took a hit. Good banlist otherwise. Now unlimit Air Lifter.

    21. namu manu on

      is this a real banlist?…I dont see anything on the official yugioh website about it….is just the jan 1 2024 banlist.

    24. Meh on

      In today’s game speed, a lot of decks don’t have the leeway to summon Baronne/Savage going second, that’s why they’re mostly going first cards. Keeping generic omni-negates like them just further increases the advantage of going first.

      A comment i:ve seen that I totally agree with.

    25. Konami are Trogs on

      While I agree with the generic Omni Negates getting banned, I don’t agree with Linkiriboh getting banned and Snake-Eyes seeing no hits whatsoever. Game will still be in a tier 0 Format for another 3-4 months. Modern Yu-Gi-Oh is unplayable. Going to just indefinitely continue my Konami Boycott at this point.

      • Uruanna on

        Cry more linkuriboh is no more now!! Now Dinos’ Lost World can counter them very easily and they have no way to dodge any targeting eff from now on 😛

      • Willcaster on

        To think guy thinking that lost world is going to matter against snake-eyes now…. I don’t want to be the one to burst that bubble but…….

        It won’t.

    29. Trunks Strife on

      snakeeyes isn’t even a deck running with all those generics/staples
      pretty sad linkuriboh did more than most of the monsters of the archetype

    30. Ok cool? on

      Now can we have a synchro that actually requires Fleur Synchron? Promethean Princess may not be negate slop on paper but for all intents and purposes it might as well be one just while in the gy. Not too surprising nowadays when there’s no difference between the hand, field, and gy. Most monster negate shouldn’t even be allowed to be used during damage calc but here we are. Summon limit did nothing wrong you know though applying it a non-symmetrical manner like after you yourself have summoned 500 times is rude sure but Apollousa deserves the bullet first.

      • Nate1080 on

        Summon Limit was the modern era version of Vanity’s Emptiness/Royal Oppression. Literally the most toxic card of the format next to Linkuriboh. It needed to go asap.

    31. Nate1080 on

      The hits on this banlist is clearly an attempt to make battle phase effects/cards relevant again (Tenpai incoming) and force decks to actually have a win condition/real end board instead of just generic boss monsters.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the next banlist sometime after Rarity Collection 2 hits more generic end board pieces/OTK enablers (Appolusa and Access Code just to name a few).

      This list could’ve done more, but tbh this is a good start. All the hits were good and warranted. Time will tell if Protos, Colossus and 3 Mali will matter in the long run.