Top 10 Reasons Cards Get Banned or Limited

The Yugioh forbidden list has existed for nearly 20 years at this point. We've had 57 changes to the forbidden and limited cards since then. But instead of going over every individual card, today we'll be going over the biggest reasons why cards find themselves placed on the forbidden and limited list by Konami and why they stay there. Let's get started.

Script by Two Tone Shoes
Edited by Lily

├ The List
Intro: (0:00)
10: Problematic rules interactions: (0:21)
9: Consistency hits: (2:50)
8: Searching for other cards: (5:36)
7: Token creation: (8:53)
6: Burn damage: (12:24)
5: Hand ripping: (15:39)
4: Drawing cards: (18:33)
3: Sending to graveyard: (22:35)
2: Powerful floodgate: (26:20)
1: Special Summoning: (30:09)

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[shapesnatch]

No Hard Once Per Turn: "Allow me to introduce myself"

[siftheadsdude]

An honorary mention definitely should be “to sell new cards/products”

[MorePower]

I find it ironic that the reason Mirage of Nightmare was banned is the exact same way it was used in GX, i.e. destroying it to avoid its downside.

[the_og_alpha]

"The most effective way to kill your opponent is to burn them to death"

I mean, that is true even without overpowered effect damage cards.

[einzer]

This top 10 is so good for new players, because they will know what and why a certain mechanic is so strong. This can give new players some degree of knowledge of how the game works and probably even make them can learn the game by themself

[youtubeuniversity]

17:02 "So as long as there were more than three turns in a game" is just. So depressing.

[SystemYTP]

Konami: Hand ripping cards are bad
Also Konami: Say hello to Lovely Labrynth

By the way, after the disappointment of yesterday's banlist, I would be curious what a banlist made by *you* would look like.

[TheAngelRaven]

Konami sounds like they would have a heart attack if they knew Magic players could search for literally any card in their deck as a normal mechanic with Black Tutors.

[thegameplayer]

it's always interesting seeing lists feature a lot of cards that were dominant from the original yugioh and seeing how they either devolved to the point of being useless or evolved to the point they are even more unstoppable now. it's always fun seeing how evolution of tcgs literally turn the oldest cards into literal paperweights or behemoths of their games

[ShredAimlessly]

The fact Soul Charge was legal as long as it was is just… mind boggling.

[thunderstruck]

Konami card design steps:
Step 1: make a card that is obviously broken
Step 2: set it to the highest rarity
Step 3: profit!
Step 4: ban it
Step 5: repeat!

[AlexanderMadolche]

This was one of your best videos so far, well done. What a great topic and great execution by you. Honorable mention to Zenmaighty for hand ripping. The wind up loop left an emotional scar on me 😂

[Hurricane]

You forgot the true reason for the banlist: to sell more product lol.

[Darkkefka]

You forgot the biggest corporate of all, money! They have been many times that cards get limited or banned just stop people from playing it to forced them to buy new cards.

[CaptainJLinebeck]

Magical Scientist is so absurd that even with a hard once per turn it probably couldn't come off the banlist

[AlexisStreams]

Card Of Safe return was very useful in my evil zombies deck where i kept bringing back plague spreader zombie whilst also decking the opponent out with soul absorbing bone tower

[AkaAkoVT]

Ooh, this is actually super relevant to some stuff I'm writing. It's an article about the Forbidden List, cards that have left it, and cards that likely never can

[grantswallow]

I feel that searching is another type of consistency hit. That’s really all searching is, and you gave the example yourself (“make the limitation of powerful warriors like Armageddon Knight and Dark Grepher trivial” by giving more consistent access to them). Overall amazing vid, though, this is a super useful resource especially for people who maybe haven’t been around as long or took a break and are just coming back

[TwistedAlly]

I'm a tad surprised there wasn't like an honorary mention of TG Hyper Librarian regarding the "Draw cards" section. That monster has been limited since the first list after it was printed because a no limit "Draw 1 card whenever a Synchro Summon is performed" was absurdly good, especially in the age of its release when basically everyone ran Synchro Spam decks.

[ryanrandolphjr]

I literally named out this list and what I thought would be on it. I got most of the list right and even named out the cards featured. Thanks for the great content!