Effective 5 April 2024, the following cards, and any alternate printings they may have, are banned in their respective formats.
In the Aceless Format
Brambleghast below is represented by its English-language proxy below as the card does not officially release until March 22nd.
Also of note: Temporal Forces reintroduces ACE SPEC cards into the Standard format. However, ACE SPEC cards are not legal in the Aceless format. It is, after all, Aceless!
As noted previously, beginning with the official rotation of the Standard format on April 5th, 2024, the 345 format will “go wide” and expand its card pool to include cards from sets prior to Sword & Shield—Battle Styles. On that date, the 345 Format will expand to include all rule-conforming cards that released from Sun & Moon base set and later, including Black Star promo cards from the Sun & Moon era and later.
An updated ban list is now available below. This expanded ban list reigns in cards from the Sun & Moon and Sword & Shield eras in the new 345 format. All prints of cards listed below will be banned in the format as of its update.
The ban list prior to the format going wide can be found below, for history’s sake:
Effective immediately, the following cards (and any alternate prints they may have) are banned in the Eternal format:
Proxy images are used below for cards that have not yet officially released.
Additionally, the following card is no longer banned in the Eternal format:
The Alternate Format Hall of Fame page has been updated with the results of the 2 February 2024 Eternal format tournament.
The tournament's results were as follows:
Guil - Florges Hand Control
iFly - Blastoise Water Box
PianoLegPete - Porygon Box
Kaleidophoenix - Miraidon ex
Click here to visit the updated Alternate Format Hall of Fame page and join us next month on March 1st for the next alternate format tournament, this time featuring the Post-Rotation Standard format!
Effective immediately, the following cards (and any alternate prints they may have) are banned in the Eternal format:
Slowking HS 12 (including Slowking CL 32)
Illus. Yuya Oka
The Alternate Format Hall of Fame page has been updated with the results of the 5 January 2024 Eternal format tournament.
The tournament's results were as follows:
PianoLegPete - Klawf
Triniray974 - United Wings
JustInBasil - Falinks
Ryan10 - Whiscash Mill
Click here to visit the updated Alternate Format Hall of Fame page and join us next month on November 3rd for the next alternate format tournament, this time featuring the Quick Draw format!
Illus. Hasuno
Beginning with the official rotation of the Standard format on April 5th, 2024, the 345 format will “go wide” and expand its card pool to include cards from sets prior to Sword & Shield—Battle Styles. On that date, the 345 Format will expand to include all rule-conforming cards that released from Sun & Moon base set and later, including Black Star promo cards from the Sun & Moon era and later.
An updated ban list will be published at that time, reigning in cards from that era in the new 345 format. With this change, the 345 format will no longer rotate three months prior to the Standard format’s rotation as it has done in the past. Instead, the 345 format will become a non-rotating format that maintains the same deck building rules it had when the format did rotate, namely:
Any Pokémon included in a 345 format deck must not give up more than 1 Prize card when Knocked Out and the HP printed on the card may not exceed:
130 HP, if it is a Basic Pokémon
140 HP, if it is a Stage 1 Pokémon
150 HP, if it is a Stage 2 Pokémon
In today’s Eternal Monday, I look at the changes to the Eternal format’s ban list. All of the changes are effective immediately and all prints of the relevant cards are affected.
The following cards are no longer banned in the Eternal Format:
The following cards are now banned in the Eternal format:
Effective immediately, the following card is banned in the 345 and Aceless formats:
Additionally, Electrode MEW 101 is banned from the 345 Format, effective immediately.
Effective immediately, the following cards, and any alternate printings they may have, are banned in the Eternal format.
An additional alternate formats ban list update will release on October 26th.
