Here’s some important news regarding the Forbidden & Limited Cards List used for high-level tournaments!

We constantly monitor the Decks and cards used at sanctioned events of all levels, from the Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series all the way down to local tournaments. Some cards and Decks are always doing better than others, and that’s okay. But we need to make sure that no Deck becomes so powerful that it drowns out the others, because you, the Duelists, have always told us that you like to have a wide variety of Decks show up at your tournaments.

There’s a lot of buzz these days about the Performapal/Performage Decks that have been growing in strength. And while we always expected this deck to be very strong (or even the strongest), it’s strangling some of the other competitive Decks right now, and we’re going to take steps to even things out a little bit.

At the same time, we don’t want to perform a knee-jerk reaction on the Forbidden & Limited Cards List, because that list isn’t just for high-end tournament play, but also for when Duelists play at their friend’s house, at school, or wherever their Dueling might take them.

So what we’re going to do is implement a new idea called the Adjusted List. The Adjusted List places additional restrictions on certain cards, but only for certain sanctioned events.

Adjusted List Starts February 8, 2016

This particular Adjusted List will take effect beginning February 8, 2016 (Monday) and applies to all tournaments held at Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series events, Regional Qualifier events, and UDS Qualifier and Invitational events.

Additionally, Official Tournament Stores are free to use the Adjusted List for their local events if they wish. Be sure and check with your Official Tournament Store to confirm.

Adjusted List events will use the posted Forbidden & Limited Cards List with the following additional restrictions:

Performage Plushfire – Forbidden
Performage Damage Juggler – Forbidden
Tellarknight Ptolemaeus – Forbidden
Performapal Skullcrobat Joker – Limited
Performapal Monkeyboard – Limited
Luster Pendulum, the Dracoslayer – Limited

The full, applies-everywhere Forbidden & Limited Cards List will be updated in a month or two in its usual manner, and some (perhaps all) of these Adjusted List restrictions will likely get rolled into that. (And some of you are going to ask, “Are we going to get an Adjusted List from now on, half-way between F&L Lists?” And the answer is “Probably not, this is an extreme case. But we’ll see how things go.” If you do attend a YCS Event, be sure and come up to let us know your thoughts on this!)

Important Card Errata: Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer

At the same time, we are publishing an errata to the monster effect text of Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer, to resolve a rules issue. (This errata should be reflected in the official Card Database very shortly.)

Old version:
If this card is Special Summoned: You can target up to 2 cards you control; destroy them, and if you do, add “Performapal” monsters with different names from your Deck to your hand, except “Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer”, equal to the number of monsters destroyed. You can only use this effect of “Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer” once per turn.

Revised version:
If this card is Special Summoned: You can target up to 2 cards you control; destroy them, and if you do, add “Performapal” monsters with different names from your Deck to your hand, except “Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer”, equal to the number of cards destroyed. You can only use this effect of “Performapal Pendulum Sorcerer” once per turn.

The Pendulum Effect is unchanged.

We hope that this Adjusted List will improve everyone’s enjoyment at the tournament level. Thank you for your continued support, and happy Dueling!