When the Khans were originally spoiled, I thought Surrak Dragonclawfoil looked neat, but that I'd like him so much more if he didn't have Blue in his casting cost, since I couldn't just windmill slam him into my existing Gruul stompy stuff deck. Constructing a deck around him, well that I also didn't really want to do, because knowing me it would just be a Gruul deck splashing Blue; I'd already built 2 Gruul decks at that point and I didn't feel I could really carve out a unique enough feel for a third deck primarily in those colors.

But then one day I was flipping through my binder and I realized that, with all the cards in my existing decks I'd been replacing with foils... I could probably build a deck almost entirely from cards I'd replaced or decided not to use, and the issue of a new deck not being unique enough got neatly sidestepped by being the entire dang point. And thus this was born, a place where all the cards I happened to like but wasn't using could find a home. Whee!

It turned out that a lot of those cards I wasn't running have very entertaining synergies with each other, which makes it all the more amusing for me to pull off ridiculous shenanigans after I tell people (entirely honestly) that the deck I'm playing with is "a pile of cards I had lying around". I've also noticed that since I started playing it fairly regularly, certain cards I run that I'm kind of surprised nobody else seemed to mysteriously started showing up across the table more often, which is just bonus amusement for me; now my local meta is taking cues from my pile of cards (that I had sitting around).


Disclaimer: I may have replaced practically the entire deck with shinier/fancier versions of the same cards that were in it originally, and by "may" I of course mean definitely did exactly that, so... the "Secondhand Shop" aspect isn't quite as literal as it once was (in that the deck is no longer actually comprised of a pile of cards I just had lying around).


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As per the deck's (sort of) theme, here are some more cards passed along from my other decks that don't use them anymore (in most cases because I replaced them with a shiny version) since the last time I posted an update:

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98% Casual

Competitive

Date added 10 years
Last updated 3 weeks
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

34 - 0 Mythic Rares

47 - 0 Rares

3 - 0 Uncommons

3 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.92
Tokens Boar 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Dragon 5/5 R, Emblem Domri Rade, Emblem Kiora, the Crashing Wave, Human 2/2 G, Kraken 9/9 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Ogre 3/3 R, Snake 1/1 G, Spirit 1/1 C, Wolf 2/2 G
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