The playing field as it appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2011: Over the Nexus. Note the location of the "Banishment" to the right of the Graveyard, and how it is offset from anywhere else on the playing field.
Banishment is a term used to refer to the location where a player's banished cards are placed. Banishment is not actually a zone, and as such, it is not included on official playmats. Most video games place banished cards either to the right of or above the Graveyard Zone. The artwork of one particular card, "Chain Material", explicitly shows an example of where banished cards may be placed.
The Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime often shows Duelists utilizing their pockets for banished cards due to the lack of any place on a Duel Disk to put them.
Terminology[]
The term "Banishment" became official after the PSCT update in Phantom Nightmare, appearing for the first time on the TCG-exclusive card "Xyz Force". Prior to this, banishment was referred to by several unofficial terms such as Removed from play Zone, Removed Zone, Banished Zone (after PSCT was first rolled out in 2011 to replace "remove from play" with "banish"), banished pile,[1] or the removed from play pile[2] (sometimes formatted as removed-from-play pile[3]).
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