Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.
Menace
Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.
A void as cryptic as reality itself.
12 / 12
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 2
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Eldrazi Temple
- Geode Golem
- Conduit of Ruin
- Sanctum of Ugin
- Eye of Ugin
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- Void Winnower
- Zhulodok, Void Gorger
- Oblivion Sower
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Endbringer
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- Emrakul, the Promised End
- Worn Powerstone
- Gilded Lotus
- Everflowing Chalice
- It That Betrays
- Expedition Map
- Basalt Monolith
- Hedron Archive
- Stonespeaker Crystal
- Planar Bridge
- Kozilek's Channeler
- Dreamstone Hedron
- Mind Stone
- Unstable Obelisk
- Prismatic Lens
- Sisay's Ring
- Pathrazer of Ulamog
- Manifold Key
- Moonsilver Key
- Crystal Vein
- Liquimetal Torque
- Mana Vault
- Lightning Greaves
- Urza's Incubator
- Thought-Knot Seer
- Spawning Bed
- Titan's Presence
- Ulamog, the Defiler
- Calamity of the Titans
- Quicksilver Amulet
- Ur-Golem's Eye
- Matter Reshaper
- Ancient Tomb
- Bane of Bala Ged
- Mage-Ring Network
- Cavern of Souls
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Sol Ring
- All Is Dust
- Forsaken Monument
- Thran Dynamo
- Eldrazi Temple
- Mind Stone
- Wastes
- Hedron Archive
- Ugin, the Ineffable
- Urza's Mine
- Urza's Power Plant
- Urza's Tower
- Shrine of the Forsaken Gods
- Everflowing Chalice
- Mystic Forge
- Worn Powerstone
- Sanctum of Ugin
- Palladium Myr
- Thought Vessel
- Rogue's Passage
- Conduit of Ruin
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- War Room
- Basalt Monolith
- Endbringer
- Lightning Greaves
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- Eye of Ugin
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Void Winnower
- Glaring Fleshraker
- Geode Golem
- Temple of the False God
- Buried Ruin
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Warping Wail
- Dreamstone Hedron
- Expedition Map
- It That Betrays
- Echoes of Eternity
- Reliquary Tower
- Titan's Presence
- Not of This World
- Oblivion Sower
- Emrakul, the Promised End
- Null Elemental Blast
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Manifold Key
- Tomb of the Spirit Dragon
Format legality
Rulings
- 2016-01-22
If there's an
in the mana cost of the card you discard, that X is 0. Any in the mana cost of the target spell will have whatever value was determined for it as the spell was cast. - 2016-01-22
Kozilek's triggered ability checks to see if you have fewer than seven cards in hand when you cast it. Kozilek is on the stack at this time and not in your hand. If you don't, the ability won't trigger at all. If the ability does trigger, it will check again as it tries to resolve. If you have seven or more cards in hand at that time, the ability won't do anything.
- 2016-01-22
The mana value of a spell doesn't change, even if it's been cast using an alternative cost (such as an awaken cost). For example, the mana value of a Sheer Drop (a spell with mana cost
) that's been cast for its awaken cost of 
is 3. - 2016-01-22
To activate the last ability, there must be a legal target: a spell on the stack. That target will determine the value of X and the mana value of the card you discard. You can't activate the ability unless you can match the mana value of a spell on the stack to that of a card in your hand.