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Forbidden Cards List Announcement

In February of this year, the Forbidden List for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME was activated for tournaments in Asia. A list of 10 cards was forbidden for use, with the intention that the Forbidden List would change every few months (and would not always be 10 cards).

Upper Deck Entertainment will soon begin to offer the choice to stores and tournament organizers to run tournaments using the Forbidden List in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Oceana. The list of Forbidden Cards will be posted on the Forbidden/Limited list in its usual place.

However, we realize that some players and stores will not want to use a format with a Forbidden List. So we will be offering TWO formats: one that uses the Forbidden List, and one that does not. When the Forbidden List is not used, cards normally on the Forbidden List may, or may not, be Limited instead.

Stores and Tournament Organizers will have the choice of which types of tournaments to run. Also, they are not locked into one format or the other. A store can run a tournament with the Forbidden List on one day and a tournament without the Forbidden List on the next day.

You, the player, can participate in any tournaments you want, no matter what the format. Both tournament formats will count toward the same player ranking. There will not be separate rankings for the two formats.

We expect to begin supporting tournaments using the Forbidden List on October 1, 2004.

Official names for the two formats will be announced soon.