While it's not going to be able to do very much on its own, Duke's got an important dice theme that he has to stick with, and this monster needs to come along for some reason
Specifically, the Number F monsters, "Number S0: Utopic ZEXAL", "Number 100: Numeron Dragon", "Number 93: Utopia Kaiser", "Exosisters Magnifica", and "Disaster, Dragon Ruler of All Apocalypses" all specifically require other Xyz Monsters as material
Show a really old player this card and this limitation alone will be enough to make it into this article
Deck Danger
This will eventually lead to them summoning their higher-level and Link Monsters "Fur Hire" which can further increase advantage
The problem with Exodia is that there are only early cards, so even for high-level monsters, there are no monsters with an attack power of over 2000 except for Demon Summon/Dark Magician, and the equipped cards are also poor as there is only the Dark Passin Sword, and the only cards that can remove monsters are Black Hole/Into Trap/Cooper Attack, so it is difficult to break through if Yugi holds on to a monster with a defense power of 2000