OCG Banlist for April Fools Day

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

https://www.masterduelmeta.com/articles/news/april-1-2025/ocg-forbidden-list

For those too lazy to go to the link

Forbidden:

Summon Limit
Artifact Scythe

Limited:

Sword Ryzael
Maliss <P> Doormouse
Dimension Shifter
Seventh Tachyon
That Grass Looks Greener

Semi Limited:

Cyber Jar
Purrely Sleepy Memory

Unlimited:

Fire King High Avatar Kirin
Performapal Monkeyboard
Chronograph Sorcerer
Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying King
Morphing Jar
Snatch Steal
Zoodiac Barrage

[Papa Shekels]

Summon limit and scythe banned, whoo! The game is saved from the meta threat of adventure piles and spright twins.

Wait, what do you mean this isn't 2022?

[Zephyr]

Glad to see Konami having some fun for April Fools, can't wait to see the real banlist when they're done joking around lol.

[Juno Brier]

They unlimited Morphing Jar in Master Duel, and pendulum is no longer relevant. Must be real.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Zephyr:

Glad to see Konami having some fun for April Fools, can't wait to see the real banlist when they're done joking around lol.

That's their secret, they're always joking. The alternative is too terrifying to consider.

[Thain]

Just a reminder, Justice Hunters which has Dragon Tail Yummy and K9 just got release. Ryzael Maliss need to step aside to get people buying the new product.

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

Originally posted by Thain:

Just a reminder, Justice Hunters which has Dragon Tail Yummy and K9 just got release. Ryzael Maliss need to step aside to get people buying the new product.

1 card I noticed in that pack was Chronomaly Vimana

Ik that's just cause of K9 but I like to think it means we're getting Chronomaly support to make that deck playable

[Raven]

Originally posted by Thain:

Just a reminder, Justice Hunters which has Dragon Tail Yummy and K9 just got release. Ryzael Maliss need to step aside to get people buying the new product.

Its a little ironic that the card that made Maliss such a huge consistent threat was the card that came last in a later set, and is now the first to get hit. I mean, it makes sense, its what really solidified Maliss' tier, but it still sucks.

[G3]

I wonder how much play Scythe Lock was getting in ocg to get banned. All the cards that just got off the list were all cut because they aren't good enough anymore.

Kali-yuga should've joined Scythe for the same reason.

[Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!]

Originally posted by G3:

I wonder how much play Scythe Lock was getting in ocg to get banned. All the cards that just got off the list were all cut because they aren't good enough anymore.

Kali-yuga should've joined Scythe for the same reason.

Depends on how many Ryzael decks were doing it, also technically K9 could be the reason since they can just make the Rank 5 to pop it

[Yerc2]

Even after Morphing Jar and Cyber Jar were unlimited in Master Duel, I haven't run into anyone using them once. Not even a janky Morphing Jar deck-out deck.

It really makes me wonder how many cards on the banlist would actually be used if they were all unbanned. Aside from universally helpful ones like PoG and GC.
Some forbidden cards may be broken in niche circumstances, but in practice, would they really be worth slotting in over any of the more powerful engines used in today's meta decks, or the control effects they end up with?

[Soji]

i didn't even know grass was at 2 in the ocg, that sounds miserable.

[G3]

Originally posted by Yerc2:

It really makes me wonder how many cards on the banlist would actually be used if they were all unbanned. Aside from universally helpful ones like PoG and GC.
Some forbidden cards may be broken in niche circumstances, but in practice, would they really be worth slotting in over any of the more powerful engines used in today's meta decks, or the control effects they end up with?

Most cards are locked up just to get players to buy new product. Others are there for being frustrating for players to play against like all the Sanctifire targets. Most can come off due to being long crept out of the game like Mirage of Nightmare. Which I'd totally play in my True Draco deck. But, others need to stay because they are either to oppressive like Imperial Order. Or, too much gas like Painful Choice. Decks are getting consistent enough nowadays to the point that they'd probably not even run Pot of Greed if it was legal at one.

Originally posted by Tunnel Sharks Rule!!!:

Depends on how many Ryzael decks were doing it, also technically K9 could be the reason since they can just make the Rank 5 to pop it

I haven't seen anything on the K9 cards. Preemptive hits are fine I guess.

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by G3:

Decks are getting consistent enough nowadays to the point that they'd probably not even run Pot of Greed if it was legal at one.

It's not about consistency, it's about the fact that it doesn't draw cards in time to matter going second. And also it doesn't do anything in the graveyard for decks that self mill a lot.