It also opens the door to lots of synergy for lifegain decks and ways for aggressive strategies to counter their opponents with more than removal
This is also a good card to pair with Fling or Kazuul's Fury
1 That's no surprise given that it's my 2nd favorite enemy color combo
This is because silver bordered cards are essentially jokes, which means designers are allowed to bend and break the card frame and design standards to fit as many ridiculous things as they want
Given the art on this new Secret Lair printing, named La danza del pueblo, its possible this new variant could be even more expensive
Outside of drawing a lot of cards pretty easily, Talion also wraps many alluring traits together for any high-mana investment: being a creature spell makes it harder to counter, being a flying 3/4 allows it to comfortably handle combat both offensively and defensively, insulating your own Ad Nauseam while pressuring your opponents, and the incidental life loss from the resolution of Talions triggered ability puts a passive clock on the game
