shiny ninetales pokemon card TCG - SM8b - 089/150 Shiny Vault Type Ninetales EX 13/83 Ultra Rare

XY Black Star Promos TypePokmon Collector NumberXY149 RarityPromo ArtistEske Yoshinob Attacks Break Through60 This attack does 30 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokmon

It's the kind of top end for a Big Red deck that sickos like me have been dreaming of for years

Besides the hilarious corner case of putting this in a cycling Commander deck with Zenith flare, Dual Strike fits very well in Storm decks as well as other strategies that feature a lot of instants and sorceries

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

White also lacks some of the ultra-powerful individual cards the other colors get