Lets compare that to a card with discard as an effect, Dark World Lightning: Target 1 Set card on the field
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Every Straw Hat has one thing that makes them irreplaceable
so long as you have some ways to manipulate all the fickle coin flips (like with Krark's Thumb)
While its likely that with or without Yata-Garasu we would have eventually seen a banlist in the game (every game faces this issue eventually as its near-impossible to balance a game with that many cards for so many years, and other cards were a threat), its no surprise that this bird was the card turning this eventuality into a necessity, and that even today the 2003 Yata-Lock era is looked back upon with trepidation.
Sleeves Are One Layer Not the Whole System Here's the misconception that accounts for most sleeve-related damage: a sleeved card is not a protected card