The box contained 60 sealed packs, each of which contained 8 cards
Forbidden, Limited, and Semi-limited cards can be cards of any type, and the Yu Gi Oh banlist typically contains numerous Monster, Monster/Effect, Monster/Fusion, Monster/Link, Monster/Synchro, Monster/Xyz, Spell, and Trap type cards
Kaiba (DSOD) Deck Monster Cards (18) Blue-Eyes White Dragon ( DSOD art
It can allow decks to pop-off quicker, which hopefully does the job of balancing the metagame, and not just walling out archetypes completely in the same way a card like Fury did in Modern (nuking mana dorks and other go-wide decks for no mana)
Its hard to not see the appeal as the game not only invites every player to collect cards and form their own unique decks but also to then test those decks against their friends
The thing that specifically baffles me, however, is this: if the intention was create a balanced version of Standard with nerfs and buffs, why release a plethora of new, powerful cards that reshape the format