Last update: 08 January 2025
Banlist
Cards banned because they disrupt the simple-attack premise, compress setup too much, or grant attacks from outside the Pokémon card.
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.
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.