An automatically-updated database and JSON API of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden & Limited Lists, also known as Limit Regulations (colloquially, "banlists"). Covers the Trading Card Game (TCG), Official Card Game (OCG), Master Duel video game, and Rush Duel. This forms part of the YAML Yugi project.
The collection of limit regulations is found under /data and published to GitHub Pages to serve the API.
In each data subdirectory, current.vector.json is a symlink pointing to the most recent effective limit regulation for
that game version.
- TCG: https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/tcg/current.vector.json
- OCG: https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/ocg/current.vector.json
- OCG-AE (Asian-English): https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/ocg-ae/current.vector.json
- OCG China: https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/ocg-cn/current.vector.json
- Rush Duel: https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/rush/current.vector.json
- Master Duel: https://dawnbrandbots.github.io/yaml-yugi-limit-regulation/master-duel/current.vector.json
If a newer list has been announced but it is not yet the effective date, then an upcoming.vector.json symlink will be present in that data subdirectory alongside current.vector.json. All served vector JSONs are guaranteed to conform to the JSON schema, and this is validated after every daily download.
The remaining files outside of /data — the actual source code of this stage of the pipeline — are available under the
GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 or later. See COPYING for more details.
The TCG list is sourced from the European site. Therefore, the April 2024 list is effective 2024-04-22, the EMEA+OC date, instead of the AMER date of 2024-04-15. See #33 to track how to account for TCG regional differences.
The TCG list effective 2022-05-23 was actually effective 2022-05-17, but Konami retconned this in its reported data at some point for some unknown reason. Fetch history:
- https://github.com/DawnbrandBots/yaml-yugi/commits/master/data/limit-regulation/tcg/2022-05-17.raw.json
- https://github.com/DawnbrandBots/yaml-yugi/commits/master/data/limit-regulation/tcg/2022-05-17.vector.json
Yugipedia categories for yaml-yugipedia, including subcategories for the OCG:
- https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Category:TCG_Forbidden_%26_Limited_Lists
- https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Category:OCG_Forbidden_%26_Limited_Lists
- https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Category:Yu-Gi-Oh!_Master_Duel_Forbidden_%26_Limited_Lists
- https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Category:Yu-Gi-Oh!_Duel_Links_Forbidden_%26_Limited_Lists (damaged)
- https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Category:Speed_Duel_Forbidden_%26_Limited_Lists
Official sources:
- Card database (all regions except China): https://www.db.yugioh-card.com/yugiohdb/forbidden_limited.action
- TCG (including historical): https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/play/forbidden-and-limited-list/
- US: https://www.yugioh-card.com/en/limited/
- LATAM (current only): https://www.yugioh-card.com/lat-am/limited/index.html
- TCG cards not legal in EU: https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/play/card-legality/
- OCG Japan (including historical): https://www.yugioh-card.com/japan/event/rankingduel/limitregulation/
- English version (can also be found at
my,sg,tw,ph): https://www.yugioh-card.com/hk/event/rules_guides/forbidden_cardlist.php
- English version (can also be found at
- OCG Korea (current only): https://yugioh.co.kr/site/limit_regulation.php
- OCG China (including historical): https://www.yugioh-card-cn.com/simplifiedLimitRegulation
- Rush Duel card database: https://www.db.yugioh-card.com/rushdb/forbidden_limited.action
- Rush Duel (including upcoming): https://www.konami.com/yugioh/rushduel/howto/limitregulation/
