Summary
Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duelhas announced the newest update to the game’s banlist set to debut in July, featuring a sizable list of eleven different cards affected. The popular digital trading card game from Konami has seen plenty of big updates throughout recent months, bringing new cards and content to the online simulator.Master Dueladded two new Selection Packs in Junewith both new cards and reprints of popular staples, alongside debuting a new limited-time event based on a popular retro format. Now, Konami has revealed the next changes to the game’s banlist.
Since the launch ofYu-Gi-Oh Master Duelin early 2022, Konami has regularly pushed out new changes to the game’s “Forbidden and Limited List.” Each month typically brings a new update to the game’s banlist, both hitting some ofMaster Duel’s most powerful cards and bringing back older cards to the game. Konami has even often pushed massive sweeping changes with itsMaster Duelbanlist releases, with some updates affecting more than twenty cards at once. The nextMaster Duelbanlist now looks to be affecting plenty of popular cards.
Konami officially announced the newest banlist update forYu-Gi-Oh Master Duellate last week, detailing the changes for eleven different cards. The new changes will see two new cards removed from the game’s competitive format entirely, with both “Kaiser Colosseum” and “Catapult Turtle” banned. Kaiser Colosseum was a popular floodgate card that limited the opponent’s ability to summon monsters, while Catapult Turtle was recently banned in the Japanese OCG as an enabler for “first-turn kill” decks. Only one card was newly limited, withfloodgate Trap card “Summon Limit"set to one copy.
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Unlimited
The Semi-Limited section ofMaster Duel’s July update saw four cards set to two copies per deck.“Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder” was the only cardto rise up the banlist from one copy per deck, while “Bonfire,” “Rescue-ACE Air Lifter,” and “Purrelyly” all lost a copy. Four different cards will be freed from the banlist entirely withMaster Duel’s update, including “Majespecter Unicorn - Kirin” and “Yata-Garasu” among others.Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel’s newest banlist update will go into effect on July 11.
The plethora of changes with the newestMaster Duelupdate both affects several popular decks and hints at more cards to come. The powerful “Snake-Eye” strategy saw several smaller hits, including losing a copy of Bonfire and the popular “Rescue-ACE” variant losing one Air Lifter. Moving “Majespecter Unicorn - Kirin” to Unlimited status may also hint at the upcoming release ofnew cards inYu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, potentially teasing the addition of the TCG’s “Majespecter” cards from Phantom Nightmare. The newest update toMaster Duel’s banlist will look to shake up the card game’s meta moving forward.
Yu-Gi-Oh: Master Duel
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