While Link Summoning was not a beloved mechanic on release, a revision of the rules in 2020 to make the mechanic work better with retro archetypes turned the mechanic into something that players could get behind

The following cards are banned in Historic format: Agent of Treachery Arid Mesa Blood Moon Bloodstained Mire Brainstorm Channel Commandeer Counterspell Dark Ritual Demonic Tutor Endurance Field of the Dead Flare of Cultivation Flare of Denial Flare of Duplication Flare of Fortitude Flare of Malice Flooded Strand Force of Vigor Fury Grief Harbinger of the Seas Intruder Alarm Land Tax Lightning Bolt Mana Drain Marsh Flats Memory Lapse Misty Rainforest Natural Order Necropotence Nexus of Fate Oko, Thief of Crowns Once Upon a Time Polluted Delta Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer Reanimate Scalding Tarn Show and Tell Sneak Attack Solitude Spreading Seas Subtlety Swords to Plowshares Thassa's Oracle Tibalt's Trickery Time Warp Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath Veil of Summer Verdant Catacombs Wilderness Reclamation Windswept Heath Winter Moon Wooded Foothills All Banned and Restricted Cards For Timeless Format In 2024 Every Disallowed Card For Timeless Format The Timeless format is another one exclusive to the Magic: The Gathering Arena and allows for any card that is included in the game to be part of the deck

When an opponent's monster declares a direct attack: You can change that opponent's monster to face-down Defense Position, and if you do, Special Summon this card from your hand in face-down Defense Position.
Some of the most iconic cards in the game, such as Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Dark Magician, are Normal monsters
some are based on the standard design with classic Yugioh artwork and motifs, and others I've taken an out-of-the-box approach to see what I could come up with