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
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
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
You can get combos like Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage or Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and Cabal Coffers
Costing only one white and one black, whenever he enters or leaves the battlefield, each of your opponents can either investigate (create a clue token), or lose one life
You can easily pay 5 life into these just by casting spells over a couple of turns, and they provide unparalleled mana fixing