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Special Summoning monsters from the Extra Deck from outside sources to the Main Monster Zone, such as Starlight Road or Ultimaya Tzolkin is only allowed if you have a Link Monster pointing to it, otherwise you must Special Summon to your Extra Monster Zone instead

That is a midrange CC if I ever saw one

This led to that format having tons of face-down 2/2s with Ward 2

You dont want to clone a value creature like Orcish Bowmasters or Storm-Kiln Artist, you want to copy something thats aggressive and capable of attacking, otherwise you leave most of this cards potential on the table

Simply attacking does the trick, and hexproof mitigates the usual risk of removal like this

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