Master Duel: Complete XYZ Festival Banlist

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel’s first Event Duel is here, and it’s all about XYZ Monsters. The XYZ Festival event has its own banlist, so some of your decks may not be legal to play without some modifications. Here’s the full XYZ Festival banlist, complete with limited and semi-limited cards.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel: Complete XYZ Festival Banlist

This event banlist is built on the existing Master Duel one. Most of the unique XYZ Festival banlist are cards that either hate on XYZ cards, offer alternate win conditions or make summoning XYZ cards too easy without the other types to keep them in check.

Notably, there are a few non-Extra deck oriented archetypes that get the axe: Eldlich the Golden Lord is completely banned, many key Monarch pieces are gone and the anti-Special Summon  Dogmatika deck is also stripped.

Marquee cards of some Ritual themes like Blue-Eyes and Gishki are banned, likely to promote even more XYZ summoning.

XYZ Festival Banlist: Forbidden cards

Every Fusion, Synchro and Link Monster card is Forbidden.

• Zefraath
• The Tyrant Neptune
• Sephylon, the Ultimate Timelord
• Sandaion, the Timelord
• Eldlich the Golden Lord
• Vanity’s Ruler
• Grinder Golem
• Archlord Krystya
• Gandora-X the Dragon of Demolition
• Master Peace, the True Dracoslaying Knight
• Gizmec Orochi, the Serpentron Sky Slasher
• Redox, Dragon Ruler of Boulders
• Tidal, Dragon Ruler of Waterfalls
• Blaster, Dragon Ruler of Infernos
• Performpal Monkeyboard
• Artifact Scythe
• Eclipse Wyvern
• Inspector Boarder
• Subterror Guru
• Cyber Jar
• Dandylion
• Djinn Releaser of Rituals
• Altergeist Multifaker
• Yata-Garasu
• Magical Scientist
• Glow-Up Bulb
• Dragon Buster Destruction Sword
• Gnomaterial
• Graceful Charity
• Pot of Greed
• Change of Heart
• Last Will
• Heavy Storm
• Confiscation
• Delinquent Duo
• The Forceful Sentry
• Giant Trunade
• Painful Choice
• Cold Wave
• Final Countdown
• Dimension Fusion
• Interrupted Kaiju Slumber
• Nadir Servant
• Snatch Steal
• Premature Burial
• Domain of the True Monarch
• Mystic Mine
• Card of Safe Return
• Mass Driver
• Zoodiac Barrage
• Chain Strike
• Set Rotation
• Time Seal
• Last Turn
• Sixth Sense
• Magical Explosion
• Life Equalizer
• Ultimate Offering
• Royal Oppression
• Vanity’s Emptiness
• Phoenixian Cluster Amaryllis
• Zaborg the Mega Monarch
• Vanity’s Fiend
• Majespecter Unicorn – Kirin
• Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter
• Contact “C”
• Cannon Soldier MK-2
• Blackwing –  Gofu the Vague Shadow
• Cannon Soldier
• Amazoness Archer
• Toon Cannon Soldier
• Fossile Dyna Pachycephalo
• Numeral Hunter
• Performage Plushfire
• Zoodiac Ratpier
• Dogmatika Ecclessia, the Virtuous
• Exodia the Forbidden One
• Jowgen the Spiritualist
• Fiber Jar
• Wind-Up Hunter
• Mystical Fairy Elfuria
• Blackwing – Steam the Cloak
• Knightmare Corruptor Iblee
• Substitoad
• Mind Master
• Fishborg Blaster
• Level Eater
• Eater of Millions
• Metamorphosis
• Jackpot 7
• Soul Charge
• Pot of Extravagence
• Pot of Prosperity
• Butterfly Dagger – Elma
• Divine Sword – Phoenix Blade
• Lair of Darkness
• Nekroz Kaleidoscope
• Mirage of Nightmare
• Spellbook of Judgment
• The Monarchs Stromforth
• Trap Dustshoot
• Self-Destruct Button
• Return from the Different Dimension
• Grisaille Prison
• XYZ Universe
• Dimensional Barrier
• Warning Point
• Destiny Board
• Dreiath III, the True Dracocavalry General
• Majesty Maiden, the True Dracocaster
• Ignis Heat, the True Dracowarrior
• XYZ Avenger
• Zap Mustang
• Explossum
• Subterror Final Battle
• Dogmatika Punishment
• Vain Betrayer
• Invincibility Barrier
• The Calibrator
• Flying “C”
• Ghostric Skeleton
• Kurivolt
• Sargasso the D.D. Battlefield
• Splash Capture
• Double Dragon Descent
• Forbidden Apocrypha
• Pinpoint Dash
• Banquet of Millions
• Heraldy Record
• Dark Contract with the Eternal Darkness
• Herald of Ultimateness
• Drytron Meteonis Draconids
• Gishki Zielgigas
• Blue-Eyes Chaos MAX Dragon
• Amorphactor Pain, the Imagination Dracoverlord
• Herald of Perfection
• Evigishki Gustkraken
• Nekroz of Unicore
• Number 95: Galaxy-Eyes Dark Matter Dragon
• Outer Entity Azathot
• Lavalval Chain
• Number 16: Shock Master
• Tellarknight Ptolemaeus
• Zoodiac Broadbull
• M-X-Saber Invoker
• Number S0L Utopic Zexal

XYZ Festival Banlist: Limited cards

• Tempest, Dragon Ruler of Storms
• Astrograph Sorcerer
• Dinowrestler Paktratops
• Girsu, the Orcust Mekk-Knight
• Cyber-Stein
• Morphing Jar
• Raigeki
• Harpy’s Feather Duster
• Card Destruction
• Monster Reborn
• Foolish Burial
• Reinforcements of the Army
• Terraforming
• Gold Sarcophagus
• Instant Fusion
• One for One
• One Day of Peace
• Trickstar Light Stage
• Gateway of the Six
• Infernity Launcher
• Brilliant Fusion
• Trickstar Reincarnation
• Metaverse
• Red Reboot
• Imperial Order
• Chronograph Sorcerer
• Thunder Dragonhawk
• Armageddon Knight
• Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer
• Double Iris Magician
• Night Assailant
• Genex Ally Birdman
• Speedroid Terrortop
• Predaplant Ophrys Scorpio
• Salamangrat Gazelle
• SPYRAL Quik-Fix
• Divine Wind of Miist Valley
• Dragonic Diagram
• Sky Striker Mecha – Hornet Drones
• Supreme King Dragon Darkwurm
• Orcust Harp Horror
• Right Leg of the Forbidden One
• Left Leg of the Forbidden One
• Right Arm of the Forbidden One
• Left Leg of the Forbidden One
• Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS – Sky Thunder
• True King of All Calamities
• Zoodiac Drident
• Wind-Up Carrier Zenmaity
• Toadally Awesome

XYZ Festival Banlist: Semi-Limited cards

• Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
• Souleating Oviraptor
• Sky Striker Mobilize – Engage!
• Memories of Hope
• Scapegoat
• Super Polymerization
• Called by the Grave
• Destiny HERO – Malicious
• Thunder Dragonroar
• Danger!? Jackalope?
• PSY-Framegear Gamma
• The Beginning of the End
• Cursed Eldland
• Emergency Teleport
• Mask Change II
• Sky Striker Mecha – Widow Anchor
• Harmonizing Magician
• Magical Meltdown