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The April 2025 TCG banlist has gone into effect, that means a new ranked season is starting on Dueling Nexus alongside the season 8 Battle Pass! Here is a full list of the new features coming out with this season:
- A Ranked Season reset, featuring the new April 2025 TCG Banlist.
- A new Battle Pass, featuring all-new exclusive Avatars, Sleeves, Portraits, Frames, Playmats, and Titles based on popular and exciting archetypes, such as Blue-Eyes, Materiactor, True Draco, and more!
- A Boutique Refresh, with Season 5’s Battle Pass items now a part of the Boutique’s rotation. Due to the rising cost of previous items, items from this season have been added at lower rarities, to make them more affordable to players who missed out on them the first time around!
What Else is New?
Manual Mode
- An all-new way to play! Manual Mode allows cards to be manipulated freely and in unique ways, making play feel more like real life, as well as adding support for custom formats and alternate ways to play the game.
- This feature is still in beta! If you encounter bugs with Manual Mode, be sure to report them in our Discord Server’s #new-features-feedback channel.
New In-Game Chat Emotes
- Express yourself like never before! Emotes featuring our other mascot characters Petra, Avester, and Enigma join the others in the in-game chat. Use them to express various emotions, such as sending a Plotting or a Skill Issue!
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 will soon make its way to Dueling Nexus, with matchmaking support!
- 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.
As a final note, 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!
