Monday, November 21, 2022

Commander: Szadek, Lord of Secrets

 A quickie for a Monday! I want to get this deck ready for Thanksgiving too, since Jason's more into Commander these days and...well, he's gonna run mill.

So let's also Szadek, Lord of Secrets.

Instant
1 Brain Freeze
1 Dismiss
1 Ray of Command
1 Induce Paranoia
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Archive Trap
1 Deflection
1 Darkness
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Grisly Spectacle
Artifacts
1 Whispersilk Cloak
1 Bösium Strip
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Dimir Signet
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Keening Stone
1 Helm of Obedience
1 Sky Diamond
1 Sol Ring
1 Altar of Dementia
1 Trepanation Blade
1 Dimir Locket
1 Ring of Evos Isle
Enchantment
1 Diplomatic Immunity
1 Jace's Erasure
1 Pendrell Mists
1 Propaganda
1 Control Magic
1 Betrayal
1 No Mercy
1 Pestilence
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Memory Erosion
1 Fraying Sanity

Sorcery
1 Denying Wind
1 Mind Funeral
1 Psychic Drain
1 Flux
1 Sleight of Hand
1 Traumatize
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Syphon Flesh
1 Deny Reality
1 Dregs of Sorrow
1 Mind Grind
1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
1 Maddening Cacophony
1 Fractured Sanity
1 Dread Summons
1 Pilfered Plans
1 Cut Your Losses
Lands
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Maze of Ith
13 Swamp
17 Island
1 Jwar Isle Refuge
1 Barren Moor
1 Lonely Sandbar
1 Waterfront District
1 Dismal Backwater
1 Nephalia Drownyard

Creatures
1 Nemesis of Reason
1 Raven Guild Master
1 Scalpelexis
1 Belltower Sphinx
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
1 Sewer Nemesis
1 Riddlekeeper
1 Consuming Aberration
1 Fleet Swallower
1 Sire of Stagnation




This is the latest version of the deck. 

The problems with the old one: the lands could be better, Hinder is old, bad tech-and the deck was revolving around it as a combo piece with Tunnel Vision-, Altar of Dementia doesn't have enough targets (though it is pretty cool to get in extra mill with Szadeck) and there are some clearly better cards to utilize now for milling than there used to be! Cards like Millstone are just too slow for Commander.

What I changed:
Dreadship Reef
Bottomless Vault
Duskmantle, House of Shadow
Extractor Demon
Thrashing Wumpus
Netehrborn Phalanx
Dizzy Spell
Tunnel Vision
Spell Crumple
Millstone
Hinder
Mindcrank
Cabal Ritual
Brainspoil
Dimir Inflitrator
Shred Memory
Tunnel Vision

What went in:
Nephalia Drownyard
Dismal Blackwater
Waterfront District
Ring of Evos Isle
Dimir Locket
Cut Your Losses
Fraying Sanity
Pilfered Plans
Dread Summons
Grisly Spectacle
Sire of Stagnation
Fractured Sanity
Trepanation Blade
Fleet Swallower
Maddening Cacophony
Tasha's Hideous Laughter

Is it good? mmmmmm Probably not. But we'll have some fun testing!




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