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Springans didn’t know what it wants to be in the first place and Konami doesn’t want Ryzeal to be accessing its cards, meaning the whole rank 4 playstyle it has is 100% dead.

And what you said about “flavor text” is total bs when literally every single card they’ve released for Branded lore is good-to-great for this entire year. Literally, the new synchros are combos exclusively for level 4 by level 4 monsters, just like rank 4s. It’s easy for them to change Springans into the Albaz lock, you idiot. They’re already getting branded players to consider dropping fusion deployment and branded fusion because of the new albaz. Swordsoul (Incredible Ecclesia’s home) to drop Longyuan.
And Dogmatika to special summon synchro-fusion monsters to begin their combos.
The whole point is about changing the playstyles of these 2020-2023 decks.