The Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare - A History of the Forbidden/Limited List 

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This man found a way to make banlist content after the banlist. Truly a revolutionary.

This video is suspiciously professional and informative

While we have the "a few months from now" line, the OCG gets reveal Livestream with even a cosplayer dressed as dark magician girl. Think about that for a second.

Summoning Salt: Yugioh Edition

Having a global ban-list isn't weird. Having a six month product lag between OCG and TCG is crazy bananas.

I just wish Konami would stop bumping the rarity of popular cards in OCG when they hit TCG. It's shamelessly taking advantage of the TCG.

TCG banlist was so bad Farfa began making video essays

Konami in the west just doesn't seem to care much. Between short prints, awful banlists, terrible prizing, and a severe lack of communication, it's becoming harder and harder to play the game.

Nice to see GlasglowYGO instead of Farfa for once in a while

It's rare seeing Farfa to make educational video

The first split between the TCG and OCG lists actually occurred in March 2004 where OCG got their first banned cards and TCG didn't

Konami: stall cards aren’t fun and should be avoided, Also konami: MYSTIC MINE AT 3

Oh god with the music at the start I thought you were going to go over the history of Speedrunning the banlist

Absolute banger, more longer form videos on the game would be awesome

Man really used We're Finally Landing for the intro

It's quite simple, honestly Konami, as a Japanese Company, doesn't give a shit about the TCG. We just subsidize the OCG. That's all we do in their eyes.

That article is interesting but I find that they left something out... financial reasons. I refuse to believe some cards aren't banned because Konami wants players to move on to new product, regardless of a decks viability at the point of it's hits. Your tier 2 decks are not safe so to speak.

The use of persona and smt music makes this so damn good, good job farfa

Konami in Japan engages with their audience way more. Interesting.

It's amusing to me how we've come full circle from that infamous 2012 list where Plants got hit even though Wind-Ups and Inzektors were the biggest problems, to the most recent list where Halq decks got hit even though Tearlaments and Mystic Mine were the biggest problems. Without clear communication from Konami, the community is left to make up its own speculation about why some cards are being protected from the banhammer but not others, and in the absence of transparency from the company, the most cynical takes about profit margins from newer sets frequently win out. More than any other purpose, Konami needs to re-establish those channels to the community in order to rebuild trust. It's something that WotC, for all its many many faults, does very well with Magic: the Gathering, putting human faces like Gavin Verhey front and center in communicating design and development decisions.

I often get the feeling that the TCG is an inconvenience to Konami as much as it is a cash cow. When you look at the live stream events you make a point of in this video and i often think to those collector rarities in the OCG and how its multiple reprints of good cards like Ash Blossom you can see the trend of favouritism and dare i say a little bit of something else.

2:54 some sort of liquid falls from farfas face

A tidbit about the TCG split mentioned at 10:14 in the video: part of the reason that the TCG got a split list was because Allure of Darkness was a TCG exclusive at the time. Allure was semi-limited for us in May, but it wasn't released in Japan until September that year. It was a significant boost to the already-strong Dark decks that ran rampant at the time along with DAD, Disk Commander and DMoC, and it made Dimension Fusion and RftDD stronger due to the additional banished monster (especially Dimension Fusion due to DMoC). The next OCG list followed suit with the September list as they also banned Dimension Fusion and DMoC and limited RftDD, so the TCG brought the list back in line by unlimiting Allure of Darkness, although it didn't stay unlimited for long.

This is extremely well put together, and I enjoyed this type of content from you👍🏼

Absolutely love this sort of content format

I’ve been looking forward to this ever since you mentioned it on MBT’s stream last week and it didn’t disappoint. I hope you’ll consider doing more videos like this.

I just wanna talk to a guy that works on konami, even the girl that brings cofee to the depentant, just to know what they're thinking about: why do mine still free? Why are they creating a swordsoul card that outs your mine? Why do they keep curious free but lavalval chain was a mistake?Why brave token exist? WHY INVOKED EXIST?!?!

Want to say, absolutely fantastic video. I would LOVE to see more videos like this in the future. ❤️

You forgot to mention how the banlist in the TCG is mainly made to push out new card while nearly killing old decks that would compete with the newer decks, such as the list that killed Pendulum, Orcust, Striker and Salad.

The amount of joy I felt when I clicked this video and heard we're finally landing. Very high. I love it

that was a really good video, Farfa, i hope you do more of these videos if you are able to, the doc style fits you well man this is some good shit

Aww this is such a cute attempt at summoning salt style video. Really enjoyed! Keep up the good work

You know Farfa proud of this video when he pulled a Summoning Salt in the intro

Farfa is a very well spoken and gentelmanly man in this video. He spoke so eloquently and gracefully. I never truly noticed how good of a speaker/talker he was. I mean this genuinely. This is different than his normal pickle bald jeff content, although I enjoy that immensly as I originated pollo 👍, which was a thing for months back in 2020-2021 until I went away from yugioh for a few years. Its good to be back.

This was a very well researched video! Good job!

Incredible video. Very insightful. 10/10

More of these! I know video essays take a lot of time to produce, but they are really interesting and you have a pleasant talking voice

I love how apparently this bilionare company gets it's fealings hurt if players complain about a damage control blogpost from a decade ago

Please make more videos like this one! :) Really enjoyed watching it.

Great video Farfa!! Well presented and great research. What happens first, electrumite comes back or mine gets banned?

Hey Farfa! I just want to say that I enjoyed this video, and that it was really fascinating taking a look at how Konami has handled the list up to this point. I'd love to see more videos like this. Also your RU-vid play button looks like it has a moustache from how it's reflecting lmao

This was wonderful and thank you for the history lesson. It would be nice to get some more insight into the changes on the banlist. But first could we get an update to the konami blog website

The summoning salt documentary music is just *chefs kiss*

One more thing regarding the no sooner than date, originally when the dates were removed we had no time estimate at all, which eventually lead to 7 months without a banlist after the August 2016 one. Shortly after that we started getting the month for the no sooner than date, and a couple of banlists later we got an exact date

Instead of us as a community saying ban mine or firewall or whatever, we need to start telling Konami plz communicate with us on why cards are banned so they can see it in the public view

I like how badly Kevin Tewarts letter on the banlist aged, man's lists the reasons there's a ban list, and it was literally to prevent the game from getting to this point....that didn't age well lol...."avoid one dominant deck"...

Great video dude! Love the history lesson!

fun fact the set that introduced cursed seal of forbiden spell came out at the same time that one of the first tcg forbiden lists happened

This video was really informative of the things that can improve the communication and the game overall

rly well made, love the long form educational stuff

Funny thing about the author being listed as just Konami and no longer a human being. This isn't unique to Yugioh or even to Konami. The video game industry in the 80s and early 90s was notorious for putting in fake names for the end credits because a lot of individual developers were freelancers and companies didn't want competitors to go head-hunting for their talent. As a result, there are a significant amount of old video games where we actually have no idea who made them. Who made Castlevania 1? We still have no conclusion. In the Genesis Sonic games, Mark Cerny was uncredited, and we would have no confirmation that he even worked on Sonic 2 if Sega themselves hadn't re-released the game years later. But this practice was still most heavily done in Konami, where for a time they explicitly forbade using real names in the credits. Even in re-releases of old games like Castlevania Anniversary Collection, they still have not changed those names (likely because they don't even know anymore). Konami is historically one of the most hostile, dead-end developers in gaming.

I like how people used to use paper and pencil to calculate the damage back in the day, while right now it just take only a turn to blow your opp's lp to ash

This was a really cool video, I liked the format a lot. I remember the emergency pepe list, it was a crazy time to be playing.

I love the summoningsalt vibes this vid immediately gives off

Yay! A video made specifically for RU-vid! Nice little documentary on the banlist 🙂

This video is an EmpLemon type beat, and I'm 200% here for it

I think you missed that we did in fact have some communication about the banlist from Konami in April 2019. It was when Konami said that they felt the player response to the current list was very positive so they would release the list in late April rather than early April and would only have small adjustments in it.

The background music at the start 🤣

Why I sympathize with the points as to why there’s a ban list, I think we should also take into account there are three types of cards that get put on the list: 1: Cards like Ancient Fairy Dragon that were undoubtedly bad when printed but then all of a sudden became good for one reason or another. 2: Cards like Snow that were okay and were balanced around the fact “it would be really hard for players to meet this condition” but as the game went on it became exceedingly easy to meet that condition and since the limiting factor on the card was “this would be hard to reach in a duel” and not “you can only use this effect once per turn” the card becomes broken. 3: Cards that from the go you can tell, “Hmm this is kind of broken”. Konami should have some kind of idea of what’s “broken” before they even decide to print card. I feel, if Konami were actually trying, the only kind of cards that would be on the ban list would be cards in the first category. Where some kind of card combination or change in the game suddenly makes a card go to “we need this banned”. Cards in the second and third group can easily be “not a thing” if Konami would put even the slightest thought into what they *decide* to print. Konami is making conscious decisions to print some cards and they’re making conscious decisions not to future proof and thinking through their own game.

Honestly I really hope Konami watches this, we kinda know they do pay attention to content creators channels so this one should be sent straight to R&D and the social media team and whoever is in charge of them respectively. We don't just want communication, we need it, its a vital part of Konami keeping in touch with the playerbase and not just being some far away company who makes the cards and changes the banlist and runs events, yes while that is their primary purpose, in a digital age where social media is a career, the absolute least we can expect is some genuine communication, even if that means bringing back Kevin Tuarte or someone that worked with him to manage the social media team at Konami HQ.

Great watch. Thanks for the upload, GlasgowYGO.

there's something of nostalgia when you start a documentary video, and hear HOME - We're finally landing

That SummoningSalt intro fucking killed me.

I remember getting hit by that first banlist. Took years to get my Chaos bois back.

This is arguably the best video you have ever done.

The persona and EB background music alone made me give this vid a like.

What I'd like to see: 1. Unified card pool and releases between all regions. 2. Unified F/L list. 3. Full breakdown of hits. 4. Releasing new cards at 1 or 2 if they know they're going to be incredibly powerful.

this is some really well made content right here

Luv all the Altus music used 😂 Even SMT V was in

ich finde du hast frei gesprochen und gut augenkontakt gehalten und gute bilder benutzt

not really a big thing, but in OCG here, date of banlist implementation is fixed (i.e. 1st Jan, 1st Apr, 1st Jun and 1st Oct every year), and the announcement usually around 10+ on the month before new banlist start implement. In the past the announcement were made through V-Jump magazine (which lead to many high-skilled photoshoped fake lists). Subsequently the announcement is made through the official website that dedicated to announce all ygo OCG news. I think since COVID-19 if not mistaken, they start announce it through RU-vid video first.

BIG shoutout to the editor who added a ton of Persona 2 music, fantastic video

Banger video, Farfa.

Its pretty cool seeing the history of TCG banlist as someone from across the pond

Master Duel: "The changes made to the list reflect our aims of preventing Decks from being too difficult to counter, and ensuring the game's tactical element is not compromized by overly short Duels."

You know, when you said on stream that you were working on a banlist documentary, I was expecting something way longer. This is still pretty well researched though

WAKE UP BABE NEW BAN LIST VIDEO JUST DROPPED

He figured out the summoning salt method!

IS THAT A PERSONA 2 THEME?!!!

Whoever edits these videos is a God

So I had a crazy thought while watching this well-put together video. What if Konami is keeping the banlist date secret to stop resellers etc… With the current controversy over gambling I wonder if this is something they can reference if someone tries to put yugioh into some type of category like “gambling” or “ betting.” Note to farfa: When you take time to structure and professionally present something, you do really well. I think you should take this type of approach more often, like once every 1-3 months. Good video 😊

"How can I milk this one blog post as much as possible...?"

This is really good and informative.

Top recommended video for me is the newest Summoning Salt upload lmao.

Stevie ah content. (Subbed to see more of this history stuff. His voice works really well for this structures)

We need Komoney to start giving good comms and actually ban ACTUAL PROBLEM CARDS like Scythe

A well deserved vid for those new to the game

FARFA TALKING OVER MISCELLANIOUS FOOTAGE TOP CONTENT!!!

Konami: "the banlist is to prevent solitaire decks" Also konami: mystic mine at 3

History of the ban list let's go 💪

perfectly cut ending :D

Great video!!

I’m getting mad speedrun history vibes from this video

please more videos like this farfa

5:41 This describes today's Meta-game almost exactly. 5:45 And Mystic Mine ban when!?

Bruh missed out on talking about the worst part of the no date period. The period with no banlist updates from August 2016 to March 2017. That shit was never gonna end.

That intro music! You making a speedrun video on yugioh GBA games Farfa? lol

Shoutouts to the SMT 5 music!

yoooo the summoning salt Synth