Szadek by cevrial

Format: Commander

Commander: Szadek, Lord of Secrets

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Mill and Reanimation Control strategy that uses Szadek, Lord of Secrets primarily as a thematic top-end commander while executing its core game plan entirely through the 99. Early turns focus on mana acceleration and deploying persistent mill engines such as Mesmeric Orb, Court of Cunning, and The Mindskinner, supported by premier draw engines like Rhystic Study and Black Market Connections. As opposing graveyards fill, the deck pivots into dominant win conditions, utilizing mass reanimation spells like Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms, or scaling combat threats such as Consuming Aberration. A robust interaction suite of efficient countermagic, spot removal, and sweepers controls the table tempo until an overwhelming board or lethal Syr Konrad, the Grim triggers close the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Captain N'ghathrod
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Cunning
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Memory Erosion
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mimic Vat
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nemesis of Reason
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Profane Memento
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Szadek, Lord of Secrets
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trepanation Blade
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Zellix, Sanity Flayer