Speaking of, why the hell is Mecha Phantom Beast Auroradon still banned anyway?
That and even Linkross can both come back with Halqi gone.
It’s amazing how the TCG handled this card, keeping Halqi at 3 for the longest time and banning several good Tuners and other niche cards that only became broken from being part of combos Halqi made.
Keep in mind that unlike the OCG, we got Halqi around the time Master Rule 4 got revised to no longer limit the use of Synchros.
Halqi was one of those really poorly designed early Link monsters made with no future proofing in mind and only justified at the time because it gave Synchros a much needed boost at the time.
That was no longer justified and now it was just a really dumb card that was holding Synchros back by getting so many Tuners banned under it and still being busted
Had to go, something in the future was bound to break it further and it was limiting card design for Tuners with its continued existence