As with all of these old school Talismans you could play them in any deck regardless of color, but thats even less efficient than matching colors in your deck you know will see play
Damage dealt to battles causes that many defense counters to be removed, and battles dealt damage greater than their defense count as being dealt excess damage
It's good, and it deserves to be in the conversation at #10, but it's not higher
The Red one lets your Commanders sacrifice another dork or artifact for one generic mana to shoot any target for one damage
(Also paying the waifu tax, a real thing in Magic collecting.) All the cheaper copies got bought out in TCGPlayers last sale, the card is up $20 in the past couple of weeks, and by the end of this calendar year, this will have broken through $400 and be staring at $500
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