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It’s national secret day (just kidding made that up over at my other blog -Dear My Future Self.) So I was thinking about one of my favorite creatures – Szadek, Lord of Secrets.  I recalled the plane of Ravinca in the real world.  I first met the vampire legend while thinking about who to use for a friendly battle.  My friends and I had a Ravinca Theme battle.  We would use preconstructed Ravinca block decks.  There were 5 of us so 1 took Boros, the other Gruul, the other took Orzhov and another Golgari.  I originally headed over to Svogthos, the Restless Tomb to meet with the queen of the Golgari.  Yet my friend was really quick and was there first to acquire their aid.  I didn’t know who to pick – the Cult of Rakdos, the mad scientist Simic or the Azorius Senate.  I walked in a confused manner in the urban landscape and ended up in the sewers.  I soon learned that I stumbled upon Duskmantle, the House of Shadow.

I didn’t even know I was at another guild’s place.  Who had heard of the shadow guild – the Dimir?  No one.  Yet I met the master of the guild – this vampire.  I didn’t know whether it was his offer or maybe he actually had me under his control – I agreed to work with him in my duels.

My first battle was going to be chaotic.  It was 5 player chaos, anyone could attack anyone, last man standing would win.  I managed to keep an early defense with my Vedalken Entrancer.  Mossdogs dominated the battlefield taking out the Gruul barbarians.  I was ignored in the early skirmishes for being the “weak” guild.  My Lurking Informant gave me useful information and became a good annoyance that the Boros guild was screaming, wanting to shoot their Lightning Helix spell at it.  The Gruul was the first to fall with the combined effort of the Orzhov and Golgari.  I feared I would be next as I managed to call in the vampire legend.  Strangely, no one took notice of his presence.  Szadek fed his thirst for knowledge by taking on the Golgari.  The Golgari didn’t care as a fatter grave meant more fertilizer for their beasts yet this became to their undoing.  Szadek grew to 4x his initial power in just 2 turns.  I managed to take out the Golgari by making the planeswalker go out of his mind.  The 2 others now realized the power of the Lord of Secrets.  Another information drain against the church of Orzhov increased Szadek’s power and nearly destroyed the planeswalker.  The Orzhov mage only had a few more spells in the library but he triumphantly screamed as he casted a Pillory of the Sleepless against the 40/40 vampire yet I grinned as I Induced Paranoia making him scream and give up the fight.  The last duelist – Boros, gave up, he could not handle a direct attack from Szadek.

Triumphantly, the weak deck – Dimir of the shadow has won!

The later battles didn’t bode so well as they were one on one.  Szadek being his secretive vampire self, hid among the shadows never again to be seen after gaining so much power in the multiplayer fight.  I lost all the one on one battles after the vampire legend seem to have left me.  I felt used yet I will always remember the power of an information sucking vampire.

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