I mean, if damage is countable, it should be
Deal 6 damages.
If it’s not countable, then this sentence should be wrong.
Such as saying something like
I drank 5 water.
So... am I missing something here?
Answer
It's domain specific, and not something that would be said outside the context of a game like this.
It's almost certainly an elided form of the following:
Deal 6 points of damage.
(And damage here is a mass noun.)
In the same way that headlines take liberties with the omission of articles and other grammatical structures, so too is this game using a shortened form of English that's understood in its own context. (With that font size, it looks like the full sentence might not fit within the space allowed by the card.)
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