You are able to splash in the card in just about any red deck, and with Shanks' playstyle, your big power characters, like Dragon, will decimate just about anything on the board
Number 374 Language English Legal Formats Brawl, Commander, Competitive Brawl, Historic, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Timeless, Vintage Not Legal Formats Alchemy, Pauper, Standard Rulings (7/23/2021) The Book of Vile Darkness has received an update to its Oracle text
You can easily pay 5 life into these just by casting spells over a couple of turns, and they provide unparalleled mana fixing
Green has hexproof as an alternative to evasion on large creatures, while white has it as a way to thematically protect creatures and the player themselves
T5 Scar for +1 Strength at the right time and a card draw when necessary
You could maybe combine it with Exploit if youre in Black or Blue, and that could be spicy, but youll need a significant amount of mana to make that happen most of the time