It spent some time limited before coming back into a much faster meta, and it could never catch up to the speed of the modern game
After damage calculation, if this card battles an opponent's monster: You can target 1 card your opponent controls
(Monsters with a Cubic Counter cannot attack, also negate their effects.) If this card is treated as a Continuous Spell Card by this effect, during your Main Phase: You can Special Summon this card from your Spell & Trap Zone
As such, it is no longer playable in the modern game, although many powerful modern deck strategies have focused on depleting an opponents hand to gain advantage, proving that the ideas behind Hand Control never truly died
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On the flip side, if a monster used as Xyz Material was Special Summoned by an effect that would cause the monster to be banished when it leaves the field such as Loading