One Piece Card Game Emergency Ban List (effective from April 10, 2026)

 

I feel this ban list is unfair for global players because we never got a chance to try the cards compare to the JP format. The simultaneous release is taking time to take effect, but looks like they've only focused on what is happening for the JP format rather than on a global scale. Well, I think this also happened to Digimon once where the cards didn't get release for global, but already got hit because of the JP format.

GCG Ban List (effective from April 1, 2026)

I don't know about you, but this has to be 1 of the worst ban list especially how GCG is designed. I literally thought they would hit U/P Barbatos, but looks like the deck is still playable, and we will still have problems facing against Barbatos builds. It feels like they didn't put any effort to stopping certain decks from dominating. Then again, it's also Bandai fault for doing Bo1 matches where you know you only have 1 chance to stop that deck, and no second chances.

One Piece Ban List effective from April 1, 2026

 

The ban list was surprising. Only one colour got hit and the other colours are fine. OP06 Pudding is banned because it stops decks from gaining large hand size. I think this hits most of my blue decks, but not like it matters since I am mainly running 1 or 2 copies in the build, I can easily replace them with other cards. 

YGO TCG Ban List effective February 2, 2026

As you know, the TCG ban list for YGO is out, all the other ban list got revealed in December, so TCG is the last one on the list. I've already accepted Herald would be banned in the TCG format because of the meta decks, which also means, I won't be able to use Herald in my Synchrons, but I can use Herald in both OCG and MD format. 

YGO OCG Ban List January 1st 2026

I decided to talk about OCG Ban list since I played the OCG format mainly on MDpro3 for Synchrons build, so I could access Baronne and Herald. Although, with the new support for Synchrons, I may not need those cards on the field anymore. But I do want to talk about this ban list and surprisingly Maxx C is limited.

One Piece Ban List (Effective April 1st 2025), Rotation Format introduced in 2026

 

Some key information have been revealed, firstly I'll be talking about the ban list. This hurts some of my OP10 build, as I have builds uses some of these cards, now I have to abandon some build, because its only 1 new card from OP10 set, or change the card to an alternative option. Luckily we have plenty of options until the rotation format comes into play next year. So I have one year time to see if I should carry on play this game or not as I did not expect rotation format in Bandai card game as this hasn't happened in DBS or Digimon when I played those games.

One Piece Simultaneous Release in 2026 and Pirates League

 

As you know, Digimon has all caught up to the JPN set, and now that game will be released at the same time. Now One Piece will be doing the same which is great since some sets are boring, and just waiting for the new set to arrive. Of course, this would means, they will need to push some sets out as soon as possible instead of 3 months period just like Digimon. Although Digimon had a lot of sets in the JPN format, and in order to catch up, they've combined BT sets together as well as doing like monthly releases.