Standard Format - Ban & Errata
The Universus Standard Format continues to evolve with each major set and competitive season. To maintain balance and clarity, UVS Games has issued an official update to the Standard Format’s Suspended (Banned) and Errata lists. Whether you're prepping for locals or just sleeving up something spicy, here’s what you need to know.
Banned Cards (Standard Format – Effective Immediately)
The following cards are no longer legal in Standard format:
These cards were banned to prevent degenerate gameplay loops, enforce health interaction boundaries, and preserve deck diversity across the format.
Power Level Eratta’d Cards
Some powerful or ambiguous cards have received updates to rebalance their power levels. You may find changes in emboldened text.
Eijiro Kirishima I
Enhance [Once per turn, your turn]: Build the top card of your deck.
Enhance [Once per turn] Add 1 foundation from your stage to your hand: This attack gets +2 or -2 damage.
Neito Monoma
Response [Once per game]: After your attack deals damage, gain all Blitz, Enhance, Form, and Response abilities printed on your rival's character for the rest of the game. This ability cannot be canceled.
Eijiro Kirishima II
Enhance [Once per turn] Destroy 1 foundation: Build 1 card from your hand face down. Draw 1 card. Your attack gets +2 damage.
Mashirao Ojiro II
Enhance: This attack gets +1 speed or +1 damage for each different printed attack zone in your card pool.
Enhance, Commit: Add 1 attack from your card pool to your hand. Only playable if there are 3 different printed attack zones in your card pool.
Shishiwakamaru
Form Commit, remove 1 momentum from the game: The next card you try to play this turn with printed difficulty 8 or less passes (no check necessary).
Younger Toguro
Enhance Commit 1 foundation: Your attack gets +X damage. X equals half the number of foundations in your stage (rounded down).
Rando’s Spirit Gun
Enhance: You may play "[Once per turn]" abilities printed on your character a second time this turn. Only playable if this card is immediately preceded by an attack or face down card.
Mikasa Ackerman
Response Discard 1 card: After you play an attack, clear 1 Weapon card from your card pool. This attack gets +1 speed for each time you have played this ability this turn.
Reiner, Armored Titan
Enhance [Your Attack]: This attack gets +2 damage. You may commit or sacrifice 1 foundation. If you do, ruin 1.
Ryukyu
Response: After you play an attack card, if it has no abilities, draw 1 card and you may add 1 card from your hand to your momentum.
Smiling Titan
Enhance [Tenacious]: Your attack gets +X speed or +X damage. X equals your attack's printed difficulty minus 4.
Bertolt Hoover Living Weapon
Enhance: Draw 2 cards and discard 2 cards. If the discarded cards are the same type, this attack gets +2 damage.
Response: At the start of the End Phase, transform Bertolt Hoover, Living Weapon. Each player chooses 3 foundations in their stage and sacrifices the rest. Only playable if a player has 11 or more foundations.
Mimic
Response Commit: After you check an asset, add 1 attack with a check value of 3 from your discard pile to your hand.
Recovery Girl
Response: After you take damage, build 1 foundation from your discard pile committed.
Nott's Flask
Card has the Unique keyword.
Combined Firepower
King Ghidorah Response [Discard Pile]: After you remove a card to pay a cost, you may try to play this card during this attack.
Devil Jin
Enhance [Your turn] Add 1 attack from your discard pile to your card pool: Your attack gets +1 damage for each attack in your card pool. You may change this attack's zone to the zone of the added attack.
Nick Ragan
Enhance [Twice per turn] Remove the top 8 cards of your deck: Your attack gets +2 speed and +2 damage. If it is your rival’s turn, ready 1 foundation with the same name as a card removed this way. If it is your turn, you may play 1 enhance ability on an attack card removed this way as your next enhance (following all restrictions and paying all costs).
Additional Resources
To explore the full ban list, errata history, and legality guidelines, check out the official UVS Games resources:
Living Errata and Legality (Plain Text)
Rules and Documents
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