Szadek, Lord of Secrets
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Szadek, Lord of Secrets

Legendary Creature — Vampire

Flying

If this would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature and that player mills that many cards. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

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FauxFaux on Card creation challenge

1 week ago

Well, tiny lore drop:

And so, that leaves us, after all those wordy words, to the only real appropriate options...

Svogthos, Splintered Tomb

Legendary Land - Swamp Forest

Whenever ~ enters, mill 5.

At the beginning of your endstep, if there are 4 or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may exile ~ and return it to the battlefield transformed.

, Mill 2: Add .

"Svogthos, shattered in twain by the Phyrexian upshoot, acts now as the only solace for the disgraced Golgari Swarm. None but the Swarm gather there, dutifully attempting to retain the crypt's former visage."

Izoni, Heir to the Swarm ()

Legendary Creature - Elf Shaman

Whenever ~ enters or a land is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you create a 1/1 Black and Green Insect creature Token. This ability triggers once each turn.

, Tap any number of untapped Insects or Spiders you control: Return target creature with mana value equal to or less than the amount of creatures tapped this way from your graveyard to the battlefield. That creature becomes a Plant Zombie instead of its other types.

"Vraska is gone and has betrayed the Swarm. It deserves one willing to foster and nurture the betrayed. Not one who uses it as a mere title."

4/4

Sorry for the Lore Dump, but challenge is to redo this challenge, but for another guild! Perhaps Dimir? or Rakdos?

DemonDragonJ on Waste Not

1 year ago

I have replaced Szadek, Lord of Secrets and Sultai Ascendancy with Necromaster Dragon and Glarb, Calamity's Augur, which reduced the average converted mana cost of this deck from 3.68 to 3.65, because, as great as Szadek was, in this deck, he simply was too expensive, and the dragon also provides tokens, which I definitely need, as this deck contains several sacrifice outlets, and Glarb is better than the ascension in nearly every way.

DemonDragonJ on Should I Keep Fungal Shambler …

1 year ago

Is Szadek, Lord of Secrets too expensive for this deck, as well? His ability definitely works with the strategy of this deck, but he costs seven mana to cast, so I worry that I may not be able to summon him sufficiently quickly for him to actually make an impact upon the game.

legendofa on League of Supervillans

2 years ago

How villainous do you want to get with this? Rakdos and Lazav are both very much sinister, destructive, monomaniacal beings, but they played a key part in taking down the Nephilim, Experiment Kraj, and Nicol Bolas (Rakdos got in on all three, Lazav missed the first two). On that note, Szadek, Lord of Secrets is pure villain.

Volrath the Fallen was one of the earliest arc villains. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician can fit in.

Oona and Maralen are at least antagonistic, but are they strictly villains? They mostly just acted against each other, trying to work around the Great Aurora.

Lord_Olga on Therapy failed because I kept putting up Walls

2 years ago

Great deck!! I run Szadek, Lord of Secrets in my Phenax deck cause he can make himself bigger by milling and attacking which makes him work better and better with Phenax. If you can generate the mana to cast him, he's great.

CasualCucumber on zombie

4 years ago

It seems your deck is going in too many directions at the moment. You have a lot of zombie lords which is good, but there needs to be a bigger zombie production. You seem to be going for the token zombie spam, so cut out the creatures that doesn't help this plan. In zombie tribal I would build around The Scarab God first ability and not focus too much on the second ability in your deckbuilding - plenty of graveyards will be filled without dedicating yourself too much to a mill plan. Of course I can see you're not finished with the deck but simple things like Szadek, Lord of Secrets seems bad when you could run Altar of Dementia.

To start with, cut: Ascendant Evincar, Pontiff of Blight, Evil Twin, Szadek, Lord of Secrets, Wight.

DemonDragonJ on Diabolical Machinations

4 years ago

I have replaced Szadek, Lord of Secrets with Blizzard Specter , which lowered this deck's average converted mana cost from 4.66 to 4.61, which is a good thing, since this deck still has the higher mana curve out of all my decks.

DemonDragonJ on Mind Over Matter

4 years ago

I have replaced Dromar, the Banisher _ with Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign , because, as much as I wish to have all ten primordial dragons in my decks, Dromar is highly situational, because he hurts his controller three-fifths of the time.

I have replaced Mindleech Mass with Blizzard Specter , mainly because the specter has a lower mana cost than does the mass.

I have replaced Szadek, Lord of Secrets with Nemesis of Reason , because, while it is great that Szadek grows more powerful with each attack, milling my opponents' cards is not a central strategy of this deck, so I cannot afford to pay Szadek's high mana cost.

These three changes together reduced this deck's average converted mana cost from 4.24 to 4.13, which is very nice.

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