Very good for its time albeit overrated.  Should have been unbanned years ago.  This card may have been wild in DHERO format although Snipe Hunter was better in some ways.
 
In Goat format, cleared tokens and any other threat.  However it was a -1 or break-even without Sinister Serpent.  Airknight plays could be set up with the discard if you weren't going to summon it by tributing a floater.  Recommended for most builds in Goats although it being a non Light/Dark can be a liability to certain decks.  In some builds I use Exiled Force instead since it handles set.
 
All in all, its a Rogue Doll with an almost-as-good Lightning Vortex attached to it.

Todays banned card is Tribe-Infecting Virus, a level 4 water aqua monster with 1600 attack and 1000 defence. And back in the day, this monster truly was something to be feared.

Tribe-Infecting Virus had a very simple, yet devastating effect. By discarding a card and declaring a monster type, Tribe-Infecting Virus would destroy all face-up monsters of that type.

Tribe-Infecting Virus single-handedly turned games around. There wasn't very much effect negation, and priority still existed and because of it, this monster was a time-bomb waiting to go off. Nowadays though, Tribe-Infecting Virus is not a threat at all. Priority doesn't exist in the same form that it did when it got banned, there's so much more effect negation, cards that can just destroy it before it can acTribe-Infecting Virusate or even WANT Tribe-Infecting Virus to resolve its effect and take advantage of it.

A lot of cards on the banlist made sense at the time, but the game has evolved past those older choices being any meaningful threat anymore. Tribe-Infecting Virus these days is nothing more than a slight cold and nothing more. The game wouldn't suffer from having it at 1 or even unbanning it entirely.

Advanced 3/5