Yu Gi Oh! Banlist June 2023

Keeping up to date with the latest Yugioh banlist is as 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, certain Yugioh cards are still deemed Forbidden, Limited, or Semi Limited on a regular basis to keep the game fair, fun, and balanced – and, if a key card in your beloved, tournament winning deck suddenly becomes illegal, you’re going to want to know about it!

Once you’ve pored through the Yu Gi Oh banlist (and the YuGiOh Master Duel banlist, which we cover in a separate guide), you might also enjoy our guides on how to play Yugioh online and the best Yugioh Master Duel meta decks. Or, if you’re a collector, check out the most expensive rare YuGiOh cards around, or even the best YuGiOh cards, like, ever.

For now, though, we’ll launch right into the latest Yugioh banlist (in force from June 5, 2023), and then explain exactly how the banlist rules work surrounding Forbidden, Limited, and Semi-Limited cards.

Yugioh banlist 2023

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

Archnemeses Protos
Artifact Scythe
Barrier Statue Of The Stormwinds
Blackwing – Gofu The Vague Shadow
Block Dragon
Cyber-Stein (Previously Limited)
Dandylion
Djinn Releaser Of Rituals
Eclipse Wyvern
Eva
Fairy Tail – Snow
Fiber Jar
Fishborg Blaster
Glow-Up Bulb
Grinder Golem
Level Eater
Magical Scientist
Majespecter Unicorn – Kirin
Master Peace, The True Dracoslaying King
Maxx “C”
Mind Master
Orcust Harp Horror
Performage Plushfire
Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis
Redox, Dragon Ruler Of Boulders
Ronintoadin
Spyral Master Plan
The Tyrant Neptune
Tidal, Dragon Ruler Of Waterfalls
Victory Dragon

Monster/Fusion

Elder Entity Norden
Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom
Tearlaments Kitkallos
Thunder Dragon Colossus

Monster/Synchro

Ancient Fairy Dragon
Chaos Ruler, the Chaotic Magical Dragon
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 89: Diablosis The Mind Hacker (New)
Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon
Number S0: Utopic Zexal
Outer Entity Azathot
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
Mystic Mine
Painful Choice
Pot Of Greed
Premature Burial
Smoke Grenade Of The Thief
Snatch Steal
Soul Charge
That Grass Looks Greener
The Forceful Sentry
Zoodiac Barrage

Trap

Appointer of the Red Lotus (Previously Limited)
Branded Expulsion (New)
Imperial Order
Last Turn
Red Reboot
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

Agido The Ancient Sentinel
Armageddon Knight
Astrograph Sorcerer
Black Dragon Collapserpent
Blaster, Dragon Ruler Of Infernos (Previously Forbidden)
Cyber Jar
Danger!? Jackalope?
Danger!? Tsuchinoko?
Dark Grepher
Dinowrestler Pankratops
Exodia The Forbidden One
Infernity Archfiend
Kelbek The Ancient Vanguard
Keldo The Sacred Protector
Lunalight Tiger
Mathmech Circular (New)
Miscellaneousaurus
Morphing Jar
Mudora The Sword Oracle
Performapal Monkeyboard
Phantom Skyblaster
Psy-Framegear Gamma (New)
Red Rose Dragon
Salamangreat Gazelle
Speedroid Terrortop
Substitoad
Tearlaments Havnis
Tearlaments Merrli
Tearlaments Scheiren
Tempest, Dragon Ruler Of Storms
White Dragon Wyverburster
Zoodiac Ratpier

Monster/Fusion

Gem-Knight Master Diamond

Monster/Link

Striker Dragon

Monster/Synchro

Ancient Fairy Dragon
Denglong, First Of The Yang Zing (Previously Forbidden)
Psy-Framelord Omega
T.G. Hyper Librarian

Monster/Xyz

Beatrice, Lady Of The Eternal
Daigusto Emeral
Kashtira Arise-Heart (New)

Spell

Called By The Grave
Card Destruction
Card Of Demise
Chain Strike
Change of Heart
Divine Wind Of Mist Valley
Dragonic Diagram
Final Countdown
Foolish Burial
Gateway Of The Six
Gold Sarcophagus
Harpie’s Feather Duster
Infernity Launcher
Instant Fusion
Into The Void
Magical Mid-Breaker Field
Mind Control
Monster Gate
Monster Reborn
One Day Of Peace
One For One
Purrely Delicious Memory (New)
Reasoning
Reinforcement Of The Army
Sekka’s Light
Set Rotation
Sky Striker Mecha – Hornet Drones
Slash Draw
Spellbook Of Judgment
Terraforming
Upstart Goblin

Trap

Magical Explosion
Naturia Sacred Tree (New)
Time Seal

Semi-limited Yugioh cards

Monster/Effect

Destiny Hero – Malicious
Herald of Orange Light (Previously Limited)
Kashtira Unicorn (New)

Spell

Lightning Storm (New)
Pot of Desires
Runick Fountain (New)
Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage! (Previously Limited)
Spright Starter (New)

No longer on list

Monster/Effect

Blackwing – Steam The Cloak
Genex Ally Birdman
Samsara Lotus
Spyral Quik-Fix

Monster/Xyz

Lyrilusc – Recital Starling

Spell

Draco Face-Off
Sky Striker Mecha Modules – Multirole

What is the Yu Gi Oh banlist?

Yu Gi Oh! Trading Card Game’s publisher, Konami, releases an updated version of the Yu Gi Oh 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 27, 2023, and comes into force on June 5, 2023. Fans will be happy to see that Konami’s latest banlist update finally hits the controversial card Mystic Mine.

“Mystic Mine had recently become a key card in competitive Dueling, forcing many Duelists to include cards in their Deck that can get it off of the field, or risk losing once Mystic Mine is played” Konami said in a rare blog post from December. “With Mystic Mine now Forbidden, Duelists no longer need to consider the possibility of this controversial Field Spell Card stalling a Duel for several consecutive turns.”

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.