Top 20 Yu-Gi-Oh! Banned Cards in 2025 | Must-Know TCG & OCG Restrictions

1. Pot of Greed

Card type: Spell

Property type: Normal

Effect type: Effect

descriptions: Draw 2 cards.

2. Graceful Charity

Card type: Spell

Property type: Normal

Effect type: Effect

descriptions: Draw 3 cards, then discard 2 cards.

3. Painful Choice

Card type: Spell

Property type: Normal

Effect type: Effect

descriptions: Select 5 cards from your Deck and show them to your opponent. Your opponent selects 1 card among them. Add that card to your hand and discard the remaining cards to the Graveyard.

4. Soul Charge

Card type: Spell

Property type: Normal

Effect type: Effect, Condition, Condition

descriptions: Target any number of monsters in your GY; Special Summon them, and if you do, you lose 1000 LP for each monster Special Summoned by this effect. You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn you activate this card. You can only activate 1 "Soul Charge" per turn.

5. Royal Oppression

Card type: Trap

Property type: Continuous

Effect type: Quick-like

descriptions: Either player can pay 800 Life Points to negate the Special Summon of a monster(s), and/or an effect that Special Summons a monster(s), and destroy those cards.

6. Mystic Mine

Card type: Spell

Property type: Field

Effect type: Continuous-like, Continuous-like, Trigger-like

descriptions: If your opponent controls more monsters than you do, your opponent cannot activate monster effects or declare an attack. If you control more monsters than your opponent does, you cannot activate monster effects or declare an attack. Once per turn, during the End Phase, if both players control the same number of monsters: Destroy this card.

7. Spright Elf

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Fire

Type: Thunder / Link/ Effect

Link Arrows: Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right

ATK / LINK: 1400 / 2

Effect type: Condition, Continuous, Quick, Condition

description: 2 monsters, including a Level/Rank/Link 2 monster

Cannot be used as Link Material the turn it is Link Summoned. Your opponent cannot target monsters this card points to with card effects. During the Main Phase (Quick Effect): You can target 1 Level 2 monster in your GY, or, if your opponent controls a monster, you can target 1 Rank/Link 2 monster instead; Special Summon it. You can only use this effect of "Spright Elf" once per turn.

8. Imperial Order

Card type: Trap

Property type: Continuous

Effect type: Continuous-like, Maintenance cost

descriptions: Negate all Spell effects on the field. Once per turn, during the Standby Phase, you must pay 700 LP (this is not optional), or this card is destroyed.

9. Last Turn

Card type: Trap

Property type: Normal

Effect type: Activation requirement, Effect, Lingering

descriptions: This card can only be activated during your opponent's turn when your Life Points are 1000 or less. Select 1 monster on your side of the field and send all other cards on the field and in their respective owners' hands to their respective Graveyards. After that, your opponent selects and Special Summons 1 monster from their Deck in face-up Attack Position and attacks your selected monster. (Any Battle Damage from this battle is treated as 0.) The player whose monster remains alone on the field at the End Phase of this turn wins the Duel. Any other case results in a DRAW.

10. Magical Scientist

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Dark

Types: Spellcaster / Effect

Level: 1

ATK / DEF 300 / 300

Effect type: Ignition

descriptions: Pay 1000 Life Points to Special Summon 1 level 6 or lower Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck in face-up Attack or Defense Position. That Fusion Monster cannot attack your opponent's Life Points directly, and is returned to your Extra Deck at the end of the turn.

11. Cyber-Stein

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Dark

Types: Machine / Effect

Level: 2

ATK / DEF 700 / 500

Effect type: Condition, Ignition

descriptions: (This card is not treated as a "Cyber" card.) You can pay 5000 LP; Special Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck in Attack Position.

12. Zoodiac Broadbull

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Earth

Type: Beast-Warrior / Xyz / Effect

Rank: 4

ATK / DEF: ? / ?

Effect type:Summoning condition, Continuous, Ignition

descriptions: 2 Level 4 monsters

Once per turn, you can also Xyz Summon "Zoodiac Broadbull" by using 1 "Zoodiac" monster you control with a different name as Xyz Material. (If you used an Xyz Monster, any Xyz Materials attached to it also become Xyz Materials on this card.) This card gains ATK and DEF equal to the ATK and DEF of all "Zoodiac" monsters attached to it as Materials. Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; add 1 Beast-Warrior-Type monster, that can be Normal Summoned/Set, from your Deck to your hand.

13. Crystron Halqifibrax

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Water

Types: Machine / Link / Effect

Link Arrows: Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right

ATK / LINK: 1500 / 2

Effect type: Trigger, Quick, Condition

descriptions: 2 monsters, including a Tuner

If this card is Link Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 3 or lower Tuner from your hand or Deck in Defense Position, but it cannot activate its effects this turn. During your opponent's Main Phase or Battle Phase (Quick Effect): You can banish this card you control; Special Summon 1 Tuner Synchro Monster from your Extra Deck. (This is treated as a Synchro Summon.) You can only use each effect of "Crystron Halqifibrax" once per turn.

14. Predaplant Verte Anaconda

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Dark

Types: Plant / Link / Effect

Link Arrows: Bottom-Left, Bottom-Right

ATK / LINK: 500 / 2

Effect type: Ignition, Condition

descriptions: 2 Effect Monsters

You can target 1 face-up monster on the field; it becomes DARK until the end of this turn. You can pay 2000 LP and send 1 "Fusion" or "Polymerization" Normal or Quick-Play Spell from your Deck to the GY; this effect becomes that Spell's effect when that card is activated, also, you cannot Special Summon monsters for the rest of this turn. You can only use each effect of "Predaplant Verte Anaconda" once per turn.

15. Tearlaments Kitkallos

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Dark

Types: Aqua / Fusion / Effect

Level: 5

ATK / DEF:2300 / 1200

Effect type: Trigger, Ignition, Trigger, Condition

descriptions: 1 "Tearlaments" monster + 1 Aqua monster

If this card is Special Summoned: You can take 1 "Tearlaments" card from your Deck, and either add it to your hand or send it to the GY. You can target 1 monster you control; Special Summon 1 "Tearlaments" monster from your hand or GY, and if you do, send the targeted monster to the GY. If this card is sent to the GY by card effect: You can send the top 5 cards of your Deck to the GY. You can only use each effect of "Tearlaments Kitkallos" once per turn.

16. Union Carrier

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Light

Types: Machine / Link / Effect

Link Arrows: Bottom-Center, Middle-Right

Effect type: Condition, Ignition, Continuous-like, Lingering, Condition

descriptions: 2 monsters with the same Type or Attribute

Cannot be used as Link Material the turn it is Link Summoned. You can target 1 face-up monster you control; equip 1 monster to it from your hand or Deck with its same original Type or Attribute. The equipped monster gains 1000 ATK. If you equipped it from the Deck, you cannot Special Summon monsters with that Equip Card's name for the rest of this turn. You can only use this effect of "Union Carrier" once per turn.

17. Dandylion

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Earth

Types: Plant / Effect

Level: 3

ATK / DEF: 300 / 300

Effect type: Trigger, Condition

descriptions: If this card is sent to the GY: Special Summon 2 "Fluff Tokens" (Plant/WIND/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0) in Defense Position. These Tokens cannot be Tributed for a Tribute Summon during the turn they are Special Summoned.

18. Fiber Jar

Card type: Monster

Attribute: Earth

Types: Plat / Effect

Level: 3

ATK / DEF: 500 / 500

Effect type: Flip

descriptions: FLIP: Each player shuffles all cards from their hand, field, and Graveyard into the Deck, then draws 5 cards.

19. Mass Driver

Card type: Spell

Property: Continuous

Effect type: Ignition-like

descriptions: Tribute 1 monster on your side of the field to inflict 400 points of damage to your opponent's Life Points.

20. Dimension Fusion

Card type: Spell

Property: Normal

Effect type: Cost, Effect

descriptions: Pay 2000 LP; each player Special Summons as many of their banished monsters as possible.