Yeah, it seems Konami is nerfing SSA 🔥 not through the banlist like what most people expected, but by putting in cards that easily deal with SSA.
This thing easily remove Umi/Ocean and turn SSA, for one turn at least, into a dead card lol
Not to mention it banishes the spell card making them harder to retrieve back.
You also can permanently get rid of one copy of SSA by removing the field spell with this card, then destroy the SSA, now that it is literally just a vanilla trap.
Unless your opponent draws another copy of SSA, your opponent is practically screwed lol
If you have played SSA, when you got 5* monster, ssa, and alo on the field. you practically begging the next draw is a monster. Any monster. More often than not, you will have multiple copies of alo and ssa on your hand.
This card is nothing compared to cosmic cyclone. Not to mention that you need your own face up spell card to activate it.
Why would they ban SR cards from main box? it's different from normal cards like woodland sprite or golden bamboo, or even free cards like dakini and MAR.
Game balance is more important than keeping a single SR relevant.
Also, it's not like hitting "cheaper" cards doesn't impact sales anyway. If Cyber Angels were no longer viable, less people would go for Saffira and Senju, for instance.
The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because it hasn't been needed. I feel like the next time we get a list update, a pack holo will be hit.