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Chris I'm sorry but your make believe card is no fun.....

Some of us bought forbiddens, only to have them forbidden after we got them
I Think the only thing that should be frbidden is one that flatly and outright is an OTK

breaker and snatch steal AGAIN?! grr.what was the point of un-banning them then?
even worse now since almost all of my extra cards are in a box in a storage unit somewhere.

Effective Sept. 1, 2008

I. Forbidden Cards
You cannot use these cards in your Deck, Extra Deck or Side Deck.

BLACK LUSTER SOLDIER - ENVOY OF THE BEGINNING
BUTTERFLY DAGGER - ELMA
CALL OF THE HAUNTED
CHANGE OF HEART
CHAOS EMPEROR DRAGON - ENVOY OF THE END
CHAOS SORCERER
CONFISCATION
CYBER JAR
CYBER-STEIN
DARK HOLE
DARK MAGICIAN OF CHAOS
DELINQUENT DUO
DESTINY HERO - DISK COMMANDER
DIMENSION FUSION
EXCHANGE OF THE SPIRIT
FIBER JAR
GRACEFUL CHARITY
HARPIE'S FEATHER DUSTER
IMPERIAL ORDER
LAST TURN
LAST WILL
MAGICAL SCIENTIST
MAGICIAN OF FAITH
MAKYURA THE DESTRUCTOR
METAMORPHOSIS
MIRAGE OF NIGHTMARE
PAINFUL CHOICE
POT OF GREED
PREMATURE BURIAL
RAIGEKI
RING OF DESTRUCTION
SINISTER SERPENT
SNATCH STEAL
THE FORCEFUL SENTRY
THOUSAND-EYES RESTRICT
TIME SEAL
TRIBE-INFECTING VIRUS
TSUKUYOMI
VICTORY DRAGON
WITCH OF THE BLACK FOREST
YATA-GARASU

NEW! - Dark Magician of Chaos, Destiny Hero - Disk Commander, Premature Burial


II. Limited Cards
You can ONLY use one of the following cards in the Deck, Extra Deck & Side Deck combined.



ADVANCED RITUAL ART
BRAIN CONTROL
BREAKER THE MAGICAL WARRIOR
CARD DESTRUCTION
CARD TROOPER
CEASEFIRE
CRUSH CARD VIRUS
CYBER DRAGON
D. D. WARRIOR LADY
ELEMENTAL HERO STRATOS
EXODIA THE FORBIDDEN ONE
FISSURE
FUTURE FUSION
GIANT TRUNADE
GOLD SARCOPHAGUS
GRAVITY BIND
GREEN BABOON, DEFENDER OF THE FOREST
HEAVY STORM
LEFT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEFT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
LEVEL LIMIT - AREA B
LIMITER REMOVAL
MAGIC CYLINDER
MARSHMALLON
MEGAMORPH
MIND CRUSH
MIRROR FORCE
MONSTER REBORN
MONSTER GATE
MORPHING JAR
MYSTICAL SPACE TYPHOON
NEO-SPACIAN GRAND MOLE
NIGHT ASSAILANT
OJAMA TRIO
OVERLOAD FUSION
RAIZA THE STORM MONARCH
REASONING
RETURN FROM THE DIFFERENT DIMENSION
RIGHT ARM OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
RIGHT LEG OF THE FORBIDDEN ONE
SANGAN
SCAPEGOAT
SMASHING GROUND
SNIPE HUNTER
SPIRIT REAPER
SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT
THE TRANSMIGRATION PROPHECY
TORRENTIAL TRIBUTE
TRAP DUSTSHOOT
TREEBORN FROG
TWIN-HEADED BEHEMOTH
ULTIMATE OFFERING
UNITED WE STAND
WALL OF REVEALING LIGHT

NEW! - Breaker the Magical Warrior, Cyber Dragon, Monster Gate, Reasoning


III. Semi-Limited Cards
You can ONLY use two of the following cards in the Deck, Extra Deck & Side Deck combined.

BOOK OF MOON
CARD OF SAFE RETURN
CHAIN STRIKE
DARK ARMED DRAGON
FOOLISH BURIAL
JUDGMENT DRAGON
MAGICAL STONE EXCAVATION
MANTICORE OF DARKNESS
MASK OF DARKNESS
NECROFACE
NOBLEMAN OF CROSSOUT
PHANTOM OF CHAOS
RESCUE CAT

NEW! - Card of Safe Return, Chain Strike, Dark Armed Dragon, Judgment Dragon, Nobleman of Crossout, Phantom of Chaos, Rescue Cat

NO LONGER LIMITED - Allure of Darkness, Destiny Hero - Malicious, Light and Darkness Dragon, Mage Power, Reinforcement of the Army, Royal Decree

I actually gave up trying to keep up with the advance format as I never get time to go to tournaments anymore. They change the list every 6 mouths and they always have a way of banning something I'm using. I found it to be a pain to try and keep up with it. I would however build or edit one of my other decks if I ever got to go to a tournament or had some other reason to do so.

My Main traditional format deck was originally an advance format deck but when they banned to many of the cards in it I gave up and went traditional format. Today, almost half of that deck is banned in the advance format. I don't regret making it a traditional format deck as my total deck strategy is practically banned today. Actually the fact they banned Dark Magician of Chaos means they are still targeting that deck. (overkill anyone). Now all they need to do is ban "Raygeki break" so I have to drop my deck to one and I'll be really ticked off.

I use Raygeki break to try and bury specific monsters as I have to discard in order to use its effect and as a bonus it doubles up as a Trap hole, Sakaretsu armor, and dust tornado all in one card. A great space saver for my deck. However, I know a lot of decks do not like discarding cards like I do in this specific deck so I don't see this ban happening.

I like the traditional format mainly because it changes less often. This means that I don't have to change my deck as often. I don't have as much time to edit my deck's as I used to scene I started working and tacking care of myself.

Ban List Effective September 2011