This will of course mean that you have to construct your deck to not care about what ends up in you graveyard, but in my eyes systematically exiling huge chunks of your opponents’ decks exponentially is far funner than recurring Mulldrifter and Shriekmaw at will. Similar to the higher profile Leyline of the Void, Planar Void works to keep graveyards empty and out of reach of players by placing them in exile. Since we’re going to be go heavy into Mill as our strategy, I think we’ll want to be prepared to not play into other people’s strengths and enable someone else’s flashback, dredge, reanimator, or persist strategies. It’s only too bad we’re not going to be in Red, because I would love to take extra combat phases. The way I see it, Szadek is perfectly primed to be an exciting general and can use toys you’ve probably seen before to great effect. What you get is a giant blob of a creature that, understandably, is hard to gauge if you’re new to the format or the strategy.
His strategy leverages several elements to plot a course to victory: he mills, but by attacking, but doesn’t deal damage, he get +1/+1 counters. This was the first time I’d seen a card to enable that.
While I had been playing Magic for about three years up to that point, I had never seen a game end because a player tried to draw a card from an empty library. I remember reading the card between turns and not grasping what I was looking at. Cast Szadek, Lord of Secrets.” Pass the turn, take a mana burn. It was about five minutes later, he did something along the lines of “Play Swamp. My buddy, Nate, pulled out this deck in different sleeves than he usually played with, but I wouldn’t say that red flags were flying yet. I remember the first time I saw Szadek it was a brisk Fall morning in 2005 and I had just rushed into the cafeteria of my high school, hoping to get in on a quick five-person game of 60-card casual before school started. These are suggested cards that you might have missed, that don’t already see much play. This week’s commander warms my heart and brings me back to the gleeful days of discovering Ravnica and Mill as a strategy for the first time- Szadek, Lord of Secrets.
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