Delinquent Duo was one of the first-ever entries on the banlist, and Confiscation and The Forceful Sentry didn't take long to follow it. Hand control cards in general are infamous for their Game-Breaker-ness, allowing you to decimate your opponent's resources in a way that's very hard to counter (especially when going first and tearing up half the opponent's hand or more before they even get a chance to play the game).

No, seriously.īelow is a list of Game Breakers introduced in their respective eras. You can try most of them (pre- Series 11 era) out in Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist, since there is no banlist anyway. Because of this, cards with powerful effects or ones which were powerful in the older generations but are considered too slow or impractical go on their own list.īear in mind this list does not include Boss Duel cards, which are Japanese event-exclusive decks that are meant to be challenged three-to-one and as such are naturally Purposely Overpowered. As a general rule of thumb, cards that are placed on the banlist were found to be too effective at the previous format.Īlso, as a result of Sequel Escalation and Power Creep, some old decks that were completely unfair in their heyday would not be so great a threat nowadays, even if they're untouched by the banlist. The Game-Breaking deck and cards in Yu-Gi-Oh! constantly change whenever the metagame shifts, new cards are released, and the Banlist is shuffled. Generally, every format has at least one deck that qualifies as Game-Breaker.

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