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Last update: 22 JUNE 2026

Banlist

Cards banned because they disrupt the simple-attack premise, compress setup too much, or grant attacks from outside the Pokémon card.

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Lt. Surge Strategy

Supporter

Extra Supporter chains make comeback turns too explosive for a format built around simple attacks and slower combat pacing.

Pokémon Research Lab

Supporter

The card bypasses normal evolution tempo and creates Fossil starts that can skip too much of the format’s intended setup game.

Earthen Seal Stone

Tool

Its VSTAR attack compresses an entire board into damage-counter math, which overwhelms the core exchange of clean attacks.

Technical Machines

Tool group

Technical Machines grant attacks from outside the Pokémon card. That sidesteps the central legality test instead of engaging with it.

Scrolls

Tool group

Single Strike and Rapid Strike Scrolls add text-heavy attacks that let decks outsource their attack identity to Tools.

Z-Crystals

Tool group

Z-Crystals introduce GX attacks through Tools and make the GX reminder-text exception harder to police consistently.

Okidogi

TWN 111 // Pokémon

Given the abundance of rainbow-like energies in the SUM-on format, meeting Okidogi’s requirement with just two energies is so simple that keeping the card legal means warping the format around it.

Steven’s Metagross ex

DRI 145 // Pokémon

High damage output, an ability to accelerate energies, the highest HP currently available in the format and the support steel type can use make this card a meta-warping powerhouse.

Why a separate banlist?

The format keeps the larger SUM-on card pool, so a small targeted banlist protects the identity of vanilla attacks without turning the site into a permanent rules argument.