Szadek, Lord of Secrets
Legendary Creature — Vampire
Flying
If Szadek would deal combat damage to a player, instead put that many +1/+1 counters on Szadek and that player mills that many cards.
5 / 5
- Set
- Ravnica: City of Guilds (RAV #234)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2005-10-07
- Artist
- Donato Giancola
- EDHREC rank
- #18,570
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
- Consuming Aberration
- Duskmantle Guildmage
- Fireshrieker
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Mind Grind
- Glimpse the Unthinkable
- The Mindskinner
- Trepanation Blade
- Psychic Strike
- Thought Collapse
- Traumatize
- Ruin Crab
- Maddening Cacophony
- Didn't Say Please
- Fractured Sanity
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Duskmantle, House of Shadow
- The Water Crystal
- Induce Paranoia
- Nemesis of Reason
- Psychic Drain
- Terisian Mindbreaker
- Mindcrank
- Mind Funeral
- Dimir Doppelganger
- Memory Erosion
- Fleet Swallower
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent
- Singularity Rupture
- Fraying Sanity
- Bonehoard
- Hedron Crab
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Dimir Guildgate
- Perplex
- Wight of Precinct Six
- Nighthowler
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Imperious Mindbreaker
- Court of Cunning
- Thief of Sanity
- Psychic Corrosion
- Extract from Darkness
- Phenax, God of Deception
- Cut Your Losses
- Paranoid Delusions
- Rogue's Passage
- Nephalia Drownyard
- Sphinx's Tutelage
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Swamp
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Dimir Signet
- Consuming Aberration
- Arcane Signet
- Dimir Aqueduct
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
- Sunken Hollow
- Watery Grave
- Rogue's Passage
- Drowned Catacomb
- Counterspell
- Duskmantle Guildmage
- The Mindskinner
- Mind Grind
- Maddening Cacophony
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Glimpse the Unthinkable
- Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
- Ruin Crab
- Fractured Sanity
- Fireshrieker
- Mindcrank
- Singularity Rupture
- Choked Estuary
- Traumatize
- The Water Crystal
- Talisman of Dominance
- Psychic Strike
- Thought Collapse
- Nemesis of Reason
- Whispersilk Cloak
- Didn't Say Please
- Drown in the Loch
- Trepanation Blade
- Bojuka Bog
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Lightning Greaves
- Reliquary Tower
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Dark Ritual
- Bruvac the Grandiloquent
- Duskmantle, House of Shadow
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Memory Erosion
- Dimir Guildgate
- Terisian Mindbreaker
- Dismal Backwater
Format legality
Rulings
- 2005-10-01
If another effect would prevent Szadek's combat damage from being dealt to the defending player or replace it with something else, that player chooses which effect applies first. For example, the player can choose to first have Mending Hands prevent 4 of the damage and then apply Szadek's ability so that it gets only one counter.