A theme deck around fifteen to twenty, or a couple of packs, tells you whether this hobby is going to stick before youve spent anything that would sting
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
Discombobulate (Onslaught/10th Edition) "I said 'pick his brain," not 'tear off his head.'" Stranglehold (Commander) The correct answer to a barbarian's riddle is to choke on your own cleverness and die
Whenever a creature dies this turn, each creature other than Elektra gets -1/-1 until end of turn
While it isn't the most innovative creature design-wise, it sure is powerful