Highlights

  • Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel announces the July 2024 update to the game's Forbidden and Limited List, with eleven cards moving around the list.
  • "Kaiser Colosseum" and "Catapult Turtle" will become the newest cards to be banned in Master Duel, while "Summon Limit" will be limited to one copy per deck.
  • Konami may also be hinting at Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel's next cards with its July banlist, with "Majespecter Unicorn - Kirin" potentially teasing the release of the new "Majespecter" support.

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel has 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 Duel added two new Selection Packs in June with 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 of Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel in 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 of Master Duel's most powerful cards and bringing back older cards to the game. Konami has even often pushed massive sweeping changes with its Master Duel banlist releases, with some updates affecting more than twenty cards at once. The next Master Duel banlist now looks to be affecting plenty of popular cards.

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Konami officially announced the newest banlist update for Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel late 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, with floodgate Trap card "Summon Limit" set to one copy.

Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel Reveals July 2024 Banlist Update

Forbidden

  • Kaiser Colosseum (previously Limited)
  • Catapult Turtle (previously Unlimited)

Limited

  • Summon Limit (previously Unlimited)

Semi-Limited

  • Bonfire (previously Unlimited)
  • Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder (previously Limited)
  • Rescue-ACE Air Lifter (previously Unlimited)
  • Purrelyly (previously Unlimited)

Unlimited

  • Majespecter Unicorn - Kirin (previously Forbidden)
  • Kashtira Birth (previously Semi-Limited)
  • Yata-Garasu (previously Limited)
  • Tellarknight Ptolemaeus (previously Limited)

The Semi-Limited section of Master Duel's July update saw four cards set to two copies per deck. "Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS - Sky Thunder" was the only card to 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 with Master 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 newest Master Duel update 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 of new cards in Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel, potentially teasing the addition of the TCG's "Majespecter" cards from Phantom Nightmare. The newest update to Master Duel's banlist will look to shake up the card game's meta moving forward.