Comeback Mechanics hosted a tournament in summer 2025 called Off Meta that banned successful architypes to challenge players with their deckbuilding and to allow them playing decks that wouldn’t necessarily succeed and survive in standard format.
Legal sets
Scarlet & Violet — Destined Rivals
Banned Cards
(in alphabetical order)
- Aegislash
- Archaludon ex
- Banette
- Banette ex
- Blood Moon Ursaluna ex
- Briar
- Budew
- Calamitous Wasteland
- Chien Pao ex
- Cornerstone Mask Ogerpon ex
- Crushing Hammer
- Crustle
- Cynthia’s Garchomp ex
- Dipplin
- Dipplin
- Dusclops
- Dusknoir
- Eri
- Ethan’s Ho-Oh ex
- Ethan’s Sudowoodo
- Ethan’s Typhlosion
- Farigiraf ex
- Flareon ex
- Flutter Mane
- Froslass
- Galvantula ex
- Gardevoir ex
- Genesect
- Gholdengo ex
- Gouging Fire ex
- Gravity Gemstone
- Great Tusk
- Hand Trimmer
- Handheld Fan
- Hydrapple
- Hydrapple ex
- Hydreigon ex
- Iron Hands ex
- Iron Thorns ex
- Klefki
- Leafeon ex
- Luxray ex
- Maractus
- Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex
- Meddling Memo
- Milotic ex
- Mimikyu
- Miraidon ex
- Munkidori
- N’s Darmanitan
- Nacli
- Neutralization Zone
- Noivern ex
- Omastar
- Pecharunt
- Perilous Jungle
- Pidgeot ex
- Pikachu ex
- Prime Catcher
- Raging Bolt ex
- Roaring Moon
- Roaring Moon ex
- Rotom
- Scovillain ex
- Shuppet
- Spidos ex
- Sylveon
- Sylveon ex
- Team Rocket’s Bother-Bot
- Team Rocket’s Moltres ex
- Team Rocket’s Spidops
- Team Rocket’s Zapdos
- Terapagos ex
- Ting-Lu ex
- Toedscruel
- Totodile
- Tyranitar
- Umbreon ex
- Unfair Stamp
- Venomoth
- Wellspring Mask Ogerpon ex
- Wugtrio
- Xerosic’s Machinations