In the Digimon Card Game, your deck can include up to 4 copies of a card with the same card numbers. In official tournaments, however, some cards are banned or restricted, limiting the number of copies you can play.
Banned cards: cards that are not allowed to add to your deck.
Restricted cards (1): If you want to include cards listed as restricted, you can only include a number of copies equal to the number listed in parentheses.
Note:
Banned and restricted cards listed here may be removed from the list depending on the current competitive environment.
Based on the competitive environment, the following cards will be added to the banned and restricted list from June 16, 2023.
When using Plant/Vegetation/Fairy decks, this card's level can easily increase to level 6, even with very little memory. This limits the future game design possibilities for green cards and Plant/Vegetation/Fairy decks. It also removes the need for another level 5 card with <Digisorption>. For these reasons, we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
In current [Beelzemon] decks, this card has an effect that can trash an additional card from the deck when this card is trashed, making it easy to build up cards in the trash. Additionally, it even removes the need for using cards such as [Ai & Mako] to place a card at the top of your deck so it can activate an effect when it is trashed from the deck, accelerating the game speed and limiting future game design possibilities for cards that reference the number of cards in your trash. For these reasons, we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
In current decks that use [MetalGarurumon (X Antibody)], a quick defeat is possible using this card. It doesn't have extreme power in current play environments, but this card limits the future game design possibilities for decks that reference the name [Garurumon]. For this reason, we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
As this card can add multiple activations of <S Attack +1>, this card allows decks with [GrandisKuwagamon] to easily defeat an opponent in a short amount of time, the attacked player has few methods for defense, and this card has been used in play environments for longer than we expected. For these reasons, this card limits the future game design possibilities for decks that reference [GranKuwagamon] or [Insectoid] cards, therefore we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
・Restricted Cards (1) - Decks can only include one copy of these cards.
The effect of reducing the cost when digivolving from this card to a Digimon that has [Greymon] in its name allows you to digivolve into [BT12-068 MetalGreymon] or [BT9-015 MetalGreymon (X Antibody)] too efficiently, accelerating the speed at which the deck reduces the opponent's security and its comeback potential.
Additionally, this card's inherited effect gives resistance to a number of effects, and overall increases the effectiveness of Greymon decks more than expected. Therefore, we have determined that this card narrows the range of viable decks in the format, and we have decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
Exceptional ban cards for Asia：cards that are not allowed to add to your deck.
The cards shown above will be included in “DIGIMON CARD GAME REBOOT BOOSTER RISING WIND [RB-01]”, releasing on January 27, 2023.
Therefore the ban in Asian regions will be lifted from January 27 onwords.
・Restricted Cards (1) - Decks can only include one copy of these cards.
As this card can delete the player’s own Digimon and return Digimon cards from the trash at a low cost, it has been used to cause continuous loops. As this outcome was not what we intended, we have decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
With an effect that can play Tamers for free alongside a strong DP reduction effect, the output of this card in certain decks was more powerful than intended. Hence, we decided that it limits variety in deck building and restricted it to 1 copy per deck.
As the [End of Attack] effect of this card allows players to reuse the cards required for DigiXros, players can repeatedly perform attacks at a low cost by having multiple copies of this card in their hand. Coupled with its [On Play] effect which increases the cards in the player’s hand, [Xros Heart] decks have performed much better than intended. Hence to improve game balance, we have decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
Exceptional ban cards for Asia：cards that are not allowed to add to your deck.
The cards shown above were distributed in Japan for magazine free gift etc. and are not distributed in Asian regions.
Therefor, to keep the playing field level, these cards will be banned from official tournaments and events in Asian regions exceptionally,starting from September 24 “Super! Tamer Battle” onwards.
・Restricted Cards (1) - Decks can only include one copy of these cards.
Decks with this card have dominated the meta longer than anticipated, limited the variety of yellow colour viable decks. As such, we decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
With low cost, this card trashes multiple cards from the bottom of a digivoled Digimon; plus the additional effects of preventing opponent’s Digimon from attacking or blocking, we decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
With “X-Antibody” traits, other card with “X-antibody” can be simply placed at the bottom of this Digimon as digivolution card. Furthermore, it gains +1 security check and prevents effects of deleting or reducing DP when digivolving until the end of opponent’s next turn. As such, we determined that adding multiple copies to the deck will upset the balance of the game; we decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
Banned cards: cards that are not allowed to add to your deck.
BT7-112 Susanoomon is a level 7 Digimon that can digivolve from a Tamer, allowing you to use this card to digivolve for free without the need for a level 6 Digimon, speeding up the metagame and restricting viable decks in the format. As such, we’ve decided to ban this card.Many games end in the early or mid-game simply by using this card to digivolve into a finisher, so we believe simply restricting this card will not be enough to fix the issue. For this reason, we’re choosing the ban this card instead of restricting it.
Restricted Cards (1) - Decks can only include up to one copy of these cards.
Decks that use this card with BT6-016 Jesmon have dominated the metagame for longer than anticipated, greatly limiting viable decks in red. For this reason, we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
This card proved considerably more powerful than the other Memory Boost cards, and exceeded our power level estimations when used in specialized decks, such as non-yellow multicolor control decks, and D-Reaper decks. We believe the card is too generally powerful to be left unchecked, and have decided to restrict it to 1 copy per deck.
Though performing as intended as a defensive card, using it every turn results in a lock situation that negatively impacts the speed of games. The resulting unenjoyable play patterns outweigh the benefits of the card’s effect, so we’ve decided to restrict it to 1 copy per deck.
Using BT7-072 Eyesmon and BT7-069 Eyesmon: Scatter Mode in tandem makes it easier than anticipated to cycle through your deck while playing Digimon to your Battle Area for free. Therefore, we’ve decided to restrict this card to 1 copy per deck.
