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The February 2026 TCG banlist has gone into effect, that means a new ranked season is starting on Dueling Nexus alongside the season 10 Battle Pass! Here is a full list of the new features coming out with this season:
- A TCG and Genesys Ranked Season reset, featuring the new February 2026 TCG Banlist and February 2026 Genesys Point List.
- A new Battle Pass, featuring all-new exclusive Avatars, Sleeves, Portraits, Frames, Playmats, and Titles based on popular and exciting archetypes, such as Radiant Typhoon, DoomZ, WAKE CUP!, and more!
What Else is New?
Edison Ranked Mode
- The popular retro format has upgraded! Players can now queue for Ranked Edison Best of 3 matches, featuring the classic Master Rule 1 ruleset, pre-errata cards, and the March 2010 TCG banlist and April 2010 cardpool.
- This mode will experience resets every season alongside the TCG and Genesys Ranked modes.
Manual Mode Official Launch
- Manual mode is no longer in beta, and players can now queue for public Manual best of 3 Unranked matches! Various improvements including Targeting Reticles, custom Multi-Counter support, Slash Chat commands, and more have been implemented, fully bringing this mode to life!
Other Updates
We’ve also added the following quality of life features since the last post:
- Random RPS Picker. If you can’t decide, or don’t want to, why not let fate pick for you? A Dice icon will now appear on the top-left corner of RPS in the Pre-Game Lobby to remove the burden of choice from you.
- Visible Pendulum Scales are now shown below Pendulum Cards.
What Comes Next?
We’re still hard at work to provide users with the best possible in-game experience, and are working on a few things:
Manual Ranked Mode
- Manual Mode is still in development, but its already available for play in custom games!
- Unranked Manual Mode will feature both Single and Match matchmaking, while Ranked Manual Mode will feature a separate MMR from Automatic Mode and accompanying skill-based matchmaking.
- We are going to roll out a Judge Exam and system within our Discord server soon. Judge calls will be fully integrated with our server, and judges will receive exclusive in-game rewards for their services. More information will come soon.
Goat Format
- The classic Retro format is available right now for custom games using Automatic MR1 or Manual Mode.
- This mode features MR1 using the April 2005 TCG Banlist, and a Cardpool up to August 16, 2005. Look forward to the release of this new game mode by May of this year!
Site Lobby Redesign + Featured Game Modes
- We’re planning to improve a lot of aspects from the Site Lobby design! These include a new Duel Zone layout that supports addition functions such as more game matchmaking modes, informational panels about each mode, and more.
- In addition to this, we plan to roll out a Featured Game Mode playlist, similar to Master Duel’s Festivals, which are limited time modes with exclusive matchmaking and participation rewards. Planned modes include Retro Formats, OCG, and other popular modes!
- These changes will accompany some mobile improvements to the overall user lobby experience.
Streamer Mode
- Being added really soon, Streamer Mode is designed to help Streamers and Content Creators!
- Enemy names and cosmetics will be censored in order to avoid potential NSFW content. Additionally, the option to mute Chat and mute Spectators is already available.
- Do you stream DNX? Consider joining the DNX Partner Program!
Mobile Compatibility Fixes
- Currently, the site’s mobile mode is in open Beta. We plan to continue to improve the mobile experience for players on-the-go.
- Tablet experiences and experiences to those on foldable devices may not be at its best, and we encourage those users to switch to Desktop mode for improvements.
Challenges
- Not to be confused with Achievements, Challenges will feature three modes- Daily Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and Seasonal Challenges.
- These challenges will reward players with XP for their Battle Pass, and Credits to use in the Boutique.
- These Challenges will be simple, repeatable tasks that should come in normal play.
- And more!
Join the Nexus
f you are interested in helping us grow our platform, consider joining our team! We are currently looking to partner with Content Creators to promote our platform! We are in the beginning stages of development a referral system for partners, which allows their watchers and consumers to support them and gain exclusive in-game prizes while doing so!
We are also currently looking for volunteers to help us expand our platform!
- If you are a Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Korean, or Thai speaker, we need your help localising our game into your language!
- If you are a Graphical Designer, and looking to have your work featured on our platform, we are in need of people who can design game assets, renders, illustrations, and artworks.
- If you are an EDM Musician who’d like your music featured in our site, we are looking for audio engineers to contribute to our ever-growing OST, and SFX library.
- If you are a Lua programmer, we are looking for Card Scripters to get card updates out even faster for players to enjoy.
- If you are a writer, journalist, or editor, we are currently looking for authors to write News Articles, Discussion Posts, and more for our site.
PLEASE keep in mind that these features are in active development, and bugs could therefore appear. If you experience any issues with these game changes, please report them to us in our Discord server, under the #open-beta-feedback channel. We would love to hear if you have any suggestions on what you would like to see added to Dueling Nexus!
One Final Thing
- Overframe artworks for Overframe cards will be added later this season! Look forward to seeing them and the elusive Grandmaster Rare Rarity being added soon.
We hope you will enjoy Season 10!
