Rules

Banned and Restricted Cards

The following cards are banned or restricted from use in official/certified tournaments according to tournament regulations.

Normally up to 3 copies of the same card may be included in a Battle Spirits deck, but some cards are banned or restricted from in official/certified tournaments.
There are 4 classes: Banned cards, Restricted Cards <1>/ Restricted Cards <2>/Restricted Cards <20>. Each class has their own set limit to be included in a deck.

Please note that some cards maybe removed from the list of Banned and Restricted Cards upon each list renewal due to changes in the game environment.
Revised Edition:
February 14, 2026

We, the Battle Spirits Special Investigation Team are constantly examining the game balance of the Battle Spirits TCG to ensure that everyone can enjoy playing Battle Spirits even more.
This will, we will be adding the following cards to the banned and limited list on February 14, 2026 (Sat.). In order to tidy up the meta for [Battle Spirits Championship 25-26 Grand Final], even though it is not of the regular timing, we will still implement the emergency ban.

In the previous ban and limited adjustment, even though we amended the strength of [Galaxian Deck] as the main aim, we also intentionally restricted the forecasted [Galaxian loop deck]. However, the [Galaxian loop deck] is still a powerful deck having gone through the last adjustment, being able to complete the loop during early game and winning the game skipping over flash timing, which is one of the charms of BS. As such, it has a high appearance rate during [Battle Spirits Championship 25-26] hosted in Japan and we estimate it to maintain the appearance rate.
Because of that, in order to prevent [Galaxian loop deck] to become the core of the meta and to liven up the meta, we decided to adjust the current ban and limited list.

[SD27-001 Pixie Lizard] can greatly reduce [Galaxian] spirit cards' cost and through the Contract Skill of [BSC49-CP02 The Galaxian Contractor, Dan] making your [Astral Soul] and [Galaxian]'s reduction symbol of every color, it allows high-cost spirits to be summoned at 0 cost. It is also a 1 cost with 1 reduction symbol, where you can summon at 0 cost and being an [Astral Soul] where it can be easily searched, it will be listed as a banned card.
Also, [BS13-062 The Shinning Galaxy] and [BSC49-075 The Shinning Galaxy LT] both have a similar effect and hence limited to <1>.

Due to the increased number of card types for [Astral Soul] and [Galaxian] after [BSC49 Dream Booster Revolving Stars], [BS26-016 Queen Nightmare] can more easily fulfil the loop of returning cards from the trash to your hand with a brave deck. As such, this card which begins the loop will be listed as a banned card.

We previously acknowledged the use of [BS51-10thX01 The Sephirothic Sheep Deity, Sephiro-Aries X] to gain a large amount of cores during the main step using its [Astral Release] effect. But during that time, it was deemed to use more parts to fulfil it and thus have a low chance of reappearing. However, the current [Galaxian loop deck] can assemble the parts more easily than before and enables the looping of core increase. As such, we decided to limit this card.

Banned Card
  • BS26-016 クィーン・ナイトメア
  • SD27-001 ピクシスリザード
Restricted Cards<1>
  • BS51-10thX01 白羊樹神セフィロ・アリエスX
  • BS13-062 光り輝く大銀河
  • BSC49-075 光り輝く大銀河LT

January 30, 2026
Battle Spirits Special Investigation Team

*Currently Effective Cards
Banned Cards(Cards that cannot be included in the deck)
  • ●Non-Japanese Battle Spirits TCG cards
  • ●GX-numbered cards (Anime character cards)
  • ●Non-Paper Cards (Exchange Card etc)
Restricted Cards<1>(Only 1 card can be included in the deck)
Restricted Cards<2>(Cards which you can only include 2 copies of, in your deck.)

The are currently no cards in this class.

Restricted Cards<20>(Cards which you can only include 20 copies of, in your deck.)
Pair Ban

*In official tournaments, this limit will take precedence over the card text.