If you fail to run sufficient basics it can live up to its name and absolutely ruin you, but otherwise its just a very fairly-costed ability that acts as a pressure valve for any lands that might be a little too good in a format like Standard
1 Surge Foil Display Commander, 10 double-sided Surge Foil tokens, 1 life tracker, and 1 deck box
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Back in the earliest build of Dredge, players were using cards like Magus of the Bazaar, which could theoretically get three cards into the graveyard on Turn 3, with the backup being Merfolk Looter, which only put a single card in the graveyard on Turn 3
For each one of the best cards, there are dozens of bad cards and Draft chaff
When looking past the underlying psychological causes, collecting both sports cards and Pokmon cards fulfills similar desires for nostalgia and the pride of ownership of something special