Omega HubOmega HubOmega HubGimmick Puppet Nightmare on every Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Forbidden & Limited List: its status today, when it was banned and each change across all 83 lists.
Yes. Gimmick Puppet Nightmare is Forbidden on the current TCG list (October 2026): no copies are allowed in a deck.
Gimmick Puppet Nightmare first went Forbidden on the December 2024 list, from Dec 9, 2024.
Gimmick Puppet Nightmare is on the list right now: Forbidden on the current October 2026 list.
TCG (Advanced Format) data from Yugipedia's Historic Forbidden/Limited Chart and each list's page. OCG lists are not included. Card names as printed in the TCG. Source: Yugipedia · Historic Forbidden/Limited Chart