On top of giving near immunity to counters, red and black have a ton of creature and artifact removal effects, and with Shadow giving them split second, you can get around most tricks that other colors can use to protect their permanents
Legend has it five thousand years ago, ancient Egyptian Pharaohs used to play a magical game very similar to Duel Monsters
It has haste.) Whenever a time counter is removed from Aeon Chronicler while it's exiled, draw a card
By far the biggest outlier is Sevinne, the Chronoclasm, who is apparently pretty unpopular
C Common Vermillion Dragon Mech X FIRE Level 9 [ MachineSynchroEffect ] ATK 2700 DEF 1800 1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuner monsters Once per turn: You can banish 1 Tuner from your hand, GY, or face-up field, then target 1 card on the field