Yu Gi Oh! Banlist 2022: all banned and limited Yugioh cards

Building top decks in the Yugioh TCG means knowing which Yugioh cards are banned or limited - here’s the latest Yugioh banlist as of February 2022

Updated: Sep 7, 2022 06:59 ET

Yu Gi Oh! Trading Card Game

Keeping up to date with the latest Yugioh banlist is as much key to success in this trading card game as it is in Magic: The Gathering or the Pokémon TCG. While it’s more of a wild west than some other TCGs, Yugioh cards are still banned, limited, or semi limited on a (somewhat) regular basis to keep the game fair, fun, and balanced – and, if a key card or combo in your beloved, tournament winning deck suddenly becomes illegal, you’re going to want to know about it!

Yu Gi Oh! Trading Card Game’s publisher, Konami, releases an updated version of the banlist on its official website every couple of months, and – naturally – there are separate banlists for the game’s ‘Advanced’ format (which is used in Regional, National, and World Championship events) and the much looser ‘Traditional’ format. Many cards, for example, are Forbidden (not allowed at all) in Advanced, but only Limited (restricted to one copy per deck) in Traditional format.

Banned, Limited, and Semi-limited cards can be cards of any type, and the Yu Gi Oh banlist typically contains numerous Monster, Monster/Effect, Monster/Fusion, Monster/Link, Monster/Synchro, Monster/Xyz, Spell, and Trap type cards.

The most recent version of the Yugioh banlist was released on May 17, 2022, and comes into force immediately. Konami says the banlist will get its next update “in a few months”.

The Yugioh banlist’s rules are simple:

If a card is ‘Forbidden’, it cannot be used in your Main Deck, Extra Deck, or Side Deck
If a card is ‘Limited’, you can only have one copy of it in your main Deck, Extra Deck, and Side Deck combined
If a card is ‘Semi-limited’, you can only have two copies of it in your Main Deck, Extra Deck, and Side Deck combined.

Yugioh banlist 2022

The official Yugioh banlist (in Advanced Format) contains the following cards. In Traditional format, the banlist is identical – except that all the Forbidden cards are instead only Limited.

Forbidden Yugioh cards

Monster/Effect

Monster/Fusion

Elder Entity Norden
Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom
Thunder Dragon Colossus

Monster/Link

Guardragon Agarpain
Guardragon Elpy
Heavymetalfoes Electrumite
Knightmare Goblin
Knightmare Mermaid
Linkross
Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon (New)
Prank-Kids Meow-Meow-Mu (Previously Limited)
Predaplant Verte Anaconda (New)
Simorgh, Bird of Sovereignty
Summon Sorceress
Topologic Gumblar Dragon
Union Carrier

Monster/Synchro

Ancient Fairy Dragon
Denglong, First Of The Yang Zing
Ib The World Chalice Justiciar
Tempest Magician

Monster/Xyz

Lavalval Chain
M-X-Saber Invoker
Number 16: Shock Master
Number 42: Galaxy Tomahawk
Number 86: Heroic Champion – Rhongomyniad
Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon
Number S0: Utopic Zexal
Outer Entity Azathot
Tellarknight Ptolemaeus
True King Of All Calamities
Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity
Zoodiac Broadbull
Zoodiac Drident

Spell

Brilliant Fusion
Butterfly Dagger – Elma
Card Of Safe Return
Chicken Game
Cold Wave
Confiscation
Delinquent Duo
Dimension Fusion
Giant Trunade
Graceful Charity
Heavy Storm
Kaiser Colosseum
Last Will
Mass Driver
Metamorphosis
Mirage Of Nightmare
Painful Choice
Pot Of Greed
Premature Burial
Smoke Grenade Of The Thief
Snatch Steal
Soul Charge
Spellbook Of Judgment
That Grass Looks Greener
The Forceful Sentry
Zoodiac Barrage

Traps

Imperial Order
Last Turn
Return From The Different Dimension
Royal Oppression
Self-Destruct Button
Sixth Sense
Time Seal
Trap Dustshoot
Ultimate Offering
Vanity’s Emptiness

Limited Yugioh cards

Monster

Left Arm Of The Forbidden One
Left Leg Of The Forbidden One
Right Arm Of The Forbidden One
Right Leg Of The Forbidden One

Monster/Effect

Armageddon Knight
Astrograph Sorcerer
Black Dragon Collapserpent
Cyber-Stein
Danger!? Jackalope?
Danger!? Tsuchinoko?
Dark Grepher
Destrudo, The Lost Dragon’s Frisson
Dinowrestler Pankratops
Exodia The Forbidden One
Fairy Tail – Snow
Genex Ally Birdman
Infernity Archfiend
Jet Synchron (Previously Forbidden)
Lunalight Tiger
Miscellaneousaurus
Morphing Jar
Performapal Monkeyboard (Previously Forbidden)
Phantom Skyblaster
Red Rose Dragon (New)
Salamangreat Gazelle
Servant Of Endymion
Speedroid Terrortop
Spyral Quik-Fix
Tempest, Dragon Ruler Of Storms
True King Lithosagym, The Disaster
White Dragon Wyverburster
Yata-Garasu (Previously Forbidden)
Zoodiac Ratpier

Monster/Fusion

Gem-Knight Master Diamond

Monster/Link

Crystron Halqifibrax (New)
Striker Dragon

Monster/Synchro

Psy-Framelord Omega
Shooting Riser Dragon (New)
T.G. Hyper Librarian

Monster/Xyz

Beatrice, Lady Of The Eternal
Daigusto Emeral
Lyrilusc – Recital Starling

Spell

Trap

Macro Cosmos
Magical Explosion
Metaverse
Red Reboot
Time Seal (Previously Forbidden)

Semi-limited Yugioh cards

Monster/Effect

Destiny Hero – Malicious
Dinomight Knight, The True Dracofighter (Previously Limited)

Monster/Ritual

Cyber Angel Benten (Previously Limited)

Spell

Fire Formation – Tenki (Previously Limited)
Fusion Destiny
Nadir Servant
Pot of Desires (Previously Limited)
Trickstar Light Stage (Previously Limited)

Trap

Wall Of Revealing Light (Previously Limited)

No longer on list

Monster/Effect

Night Assailant (Previously Limited)

Monster/Synchro

Trishula, Dragon Of The Ice Barrier (Previously Limited)

Monster/Xyz

Salamangreat Miragestallio (Previously Limited)

Spell

A Hero Lives (Previously Semi-Limited)
Salamangreat Circle (Previously Semi-Limited)
Scapegoat (Previously Semi-Limited)

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