GCG Link Station Ep 51 - Freedom Ascension [GD05] First-Look Battle! & Ban List Revealed

 

Before you watch this video, the ban list was never mentioned in this video even though, it is revealed on the same day. The Link Station video only focus on SP cards and Events revealed. I've decided to cramp these 2 together to save me from double posting, and they are both related to GCG, so there's really no point creating a separate post.

OP14 Blue (Jinbe) Deck Profile (Post April 2026 Ban List)

I've decided to revisit OP14 Jinbe because OP07 Jinbe got unbanned which can make a huge difference for this build. I've checked the OP15 set, and there's not many cards that could go well with this build, maybe Leo, but considering the room, you don't really want to run Leo in the build. 

YGO TCG Forbidden & Limited List, effective May 18, 2026.

I haven't kept up with YGO but this ban list is weird for me, it seems I have missed out a lot of stuff in this meta with the cards being hit. Noroi, Rosewhip and Fanatix Machinix got banned. I guess I can understand why Rosewhip got banned, because of modern YGO who relies on spell cards and monster's effects, but the 2 other cards doesn't make sense to me. I need someone filling me in on why those 2 cards got banned.

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.

GCG World Finals 25-26 Updates

 

Here is an update of top 16 decks for GCG WCS. There's also a potential ban list will be announced around March 27. I am not surprised if the ban list will hit U/P Barbatos builds considering out of 3 card games, GCG was the least interesting with the top 3 all being Barbatos builds. As you can see in this top 16, almost half the decks are U/P builds. 

Digimon Card Game World Finals 25-26

Just like OPCG, a lot of information have been revealed for DCG, including the new ban list. Although, I am mainly interested in EX13 set for Ulforce to start getting back to the game. I haven't kept up with DCG meta, so I don't really what's what anymore compare to before. But I do know DCG won't be doing rotations so they will have a huge ban list like YGO if they don't balance the stuff properly.

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. 

One Piece Card Game World Finals 25-26

 

A lot of information have been revealed for OPCG and not just about the WCS. Luckily, the global side has also translated the stuff in this video, so I don't need to translate the stuff manual and try and figure our what's what. I just need to write my opinions about the stuff they've released. Do note, some of the products will have different release date for JP and EN. It does make sense since rushing all the products to catch up with JP will be a mess like DCG back then, so they will do it slowly, but we should be able to catch up near Autumn/Winter.

BANDAI Card Games Fest 25-26 in Las Vegas with Toy & Hobby Expo | Day 1

 

What I don't like about this is that they've cramped every Bandai games in 1 video. For me who is only interested in product and card reveals, I could easily miss them. I will post all the information about Bandai games on 1 post, save me from posting the same video over and over again.

ONE PIECE Card Game Championship 25-26 Japan National Championship

 

To be honest, I thought this season was finished, and we are starting 26-27 season. Of course, I'm not really interested in the championship, there are other channels who can explain the fight better. What I am interested is the announcement of products for OPCG. This is a 7 hours long video, so feel free to watch the fight when you have the time, I'll be skipping the fights and going through the stuff they've announced.

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 from August 30, 2025)

The ban list turns out different from what I've expected. I really thought Giant would be banned, but turns out, that card is safe, so any SH decks can comfortably run Giant at 4. What I am surprised is cards being unbanned. Then again, certain cards are only banned because of certain Leader. Speaking of which, they banned a Leader card, and it is one of the old Leader that will be out of rotation next year, so I'm surprised. I didn't know that Leader still made a huge impact in the tournament considering the meta. However, looking at OP13 set, I think that's the only reason why that Leader is banned, considering OP13 have plenty of draw power introduced.

YGO Ban List (Effective From April 7th 2025)

 

Honestly, the latest ban list makes me want to about the TCG of YGO. I feel TCG format has the hate of anti hand traps compare to OCG. Now that Designator is limited who was the one answer to hand traps because Called By is limited. They should have semi limited Called By, then it would make sense like OCG format. Talent also got hit, another card that is great for going first or second, otherwise we won't be able to deal with monster effects. I guess it won't be long until Thrust is also limited since that card can grab any S/T from deck, and that is if the TCG hates anti hand trap cards.

Digimon Ban List (Effective March 28th 2025)

 

I haven't been touching Digimon lately as I have been selling Digimon stuff to make room for GCG, so apologies if this news is late. Honestly, I am not surprised that there's a lot of major hits in this list, considering when I used those decks, they were pretty OP. Digimon Ban List is very long now, you could compare it to VG premium (I wouldn't say YGO at the moment), and I wonder if its because of Digimon, we've got rotation in One Piece. Well, DBSCG also had a long ban list, but I consider that game to be different compare to One Piece and Digimon. DBSCG is more in BSS category, as BSS is different to BS having their own set of rules and effects.

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.