Szadek, Lord of Secrets

 

Szadek makes your opponent face quite a dilema. It is a huge flyer, so it will be difficult to find something large enough to block and kill it. If they cannot, they can either chump block it, or, if they do not/cannot, then Szadek gets though...not to damage them, but to mill away their deck. And each turn it gets worse, making them mill away a huge portion of their library. It will only take a few hits by this guy to deck your opponent. And of course, it's getting bigger with each player hit. After the first, you can pretty much rule out killing Szadek with direct damage or neg counters, as it will be a 10/10. It only takes 4 hits to completely mill away a 60 card deck. Of course, the casting cost on him is pretty huge. But if you find someway to force it on the board, say, through a reanimation method, yowsa! Szadek is good enough that I'm quite sure players will FIND a way to make that happen. In limited, if you're going Blue Black, you play him if only for the late game.