Despite what many people may think, Rescue Cat isn't what makes the deck broken. It's XX-Saber Faultroll. Rescue Cat (and to some extent, XX-Saber Boggart Knight) can facilitate the summoning of Faultroll, but it doesn't do all that much by itself.
If Rescue Cat didn't exist, then X-Sabers wouldn't use Gold Sarcophagus to the extent that they do now. In order to make Faultroll plays, they would have to get one X-Saber through the opponents turn through effects like XX-Saber Fulhelmknight, X-Saber Pashuul, and XX-Saber Emmersblade or they would have to Special Summon multiple X-Sabers in one turn, through effects like Boggart Knight and Gottoms' Emergency Call. Of course, this would only reduce the consistency of X-Sabers. It would still allow them to do well if the generic build was overhauled.
Now, if XX-Saber Faultroll didn't exist, um, yeah... I guess that X-Sabers could still swarm, but it wouldn't be nearly as effective. They would have to rely on Rescue Cat and Gottoms' Emergency Call. But, Rescue Cat is Limited and Gottoms' Emergency Call is pretty easy to get around.
Ending on some ban list speculation, although banning Rescue Cat is justified, Limiting XX-Saber Faultroll would hinder X-Sabers greatly, maybe even forcing them to become more of a control deck.
Just looking at this post in retrospect, you are mostly right, but what rescue cat did was allow for the immediate search of airbellum, and more importantly darksoul, and with 3 faultroll, it was a lot easier to make huge plays.
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