Some important information about the future of OPCG. But honestly, if you've kept up with the OPCG stuff, this is nothing new. It is mainly about the rotation OPCG is introducing next year. There are some cards who will be exempted from the rotation, and looking at the list, not really looking too good.
As expected, OPCG will follow MTG route where we have 1 standard format and 1 modern format for the game. However, official tournaments like the worlds will only use standard format. This is starting from April 1 2026. If people are playing this game competitively, then you should focused on standard, however, if people want to play some fun decks, then the modern format will be fun. Although, with more and more new supports coming, the modern format could be more broken than the standard format unless they've decided to make a ban list for that specific format.
Speaking of ban list, it's been confirmed that a new OPCG Ban list will come out sometime in August I think, and I think 1 possible card is definitely getting banned since purple SH decks have been using the card since the start, and it is way broken for what the card does.
Premium Booster vol.2
As you also know, Premium Booster vol.2 will have some old reprinted cards with Block No.1, luckily, they will be treated as Block No.4 when that set get released, so it doesn't feel like buying a reprint set will be pointless. MTG already does this with one of their yearly sets, so I am glad OPCG is following that route. So if you need certain old cards that is already out of the rotation, you will need to focus on Premium Booster Vol.2
List of Exemption
As you can see, not a single ST card have made it, so if your build is using ST cards, those will definitely be out of rotation when the time come. Unfortunately, not all searchers are on this list. I would have thought searchers will be exempted, but nope. I guess if they are printing new 1 drop searchers, then I won't complain, but it does hurt that a lot of decks won't be usable anymore.
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