The secondary effect is that if you control a Salamangreat Link monster summoned using a monster with the same name as material, you can set the card from the grave, banishing it when it leaves the field
Thats earned it a spot at the top of the genre alongside games like Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh
This means our Breeding Pool, Command Tower, and Forest can all become Gates
Thanks to various different experiments since release, people managed to find multiple lines that broke the card, leading to it being banned

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