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If a "Codebreaker" Link Monster(s) on the field is destroyed by battle or card effect, while this card is on the field: Destroy this card

The self-referentiality and redundancy held within Another Beryl & Lordly Lode is truly something to behold, and it greatly reminds me of something like the Invoked engine of ages past, although the difference here is that instead of being a low-ceiling failsafe for combo decks without need of their Normal Summon, instead here it allows you to raise your ceiling, on top of at-worst ending on something like 2 bodies and a Spell Speed 2 steal

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If an Eevee were rushing toward you like this, youd hold out your arms to eagerly catch the little Pokmonwhen its Honedge, wed hightail it in the other direction

While this didnt lock out players from using Xyz and Synchro monsters altogether, the loss of their abilities essentially turned them into costly normal monsters not worth the cost of being summoned to the field