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
1 That's no surprise given that it's my 2nd favorite enemy color combo
If you like beating down, Amarant Coral does just that
Whisk until pudding begins to thicken
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
Why not check out our list of the most valuable Japanese Pokmon cards, or our list of the most valuable Pokmon cards by clay artist, Yuka Morii