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.
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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
- Oblivion Sower
- Zhulodok, Void Gorger
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Endbringer
- Emrakul, the Promised End
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- Worn Powerstone
- Gilded Lotus
- Everflowing Chalice
- It That Betrays
- Expedition Map
- Basalt Monolith
- Hedron Archive
- Stonespeaker Crystal
- Planar Bridge
- Dreamstone Hedron
- Kozilek's Channeler
- Mind Stone
- Unstable Obelisk
- Prismatic Lens
- Sisay's Ring
- Pathrazer of Ulamog
- Moonsilver Key
- Crystal Vein
- Manifold Key
- Mana Vault
- Urza's Incubator
- Liquimetal Torque
- Lightning Greaves
- Spawning Bed
- Thought-Knot Seer
- Titan's Presence
- Ulamog, the Defiler
- Calamity of the Titans
- Matter Reshaper
- Bane of Bala Ged
- Mage-Ring Network
- Ur-Golem's Eye
- Quicksilver Amulet
- Cavern of Souls
- Ancient Tomb
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
- Thought Vessel
- Rogue's Passage
- Conduit of Ruin
- Palladium Myr
- Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
- War Room
- Basalt Monolith
- Lightning Greaves
- Endbringer
- Ugin, the Spirit Dragon
- Eye of Ugin
- Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
- Artisan of Kozilek
- Glaring Fleshraker
- Void Winnower
- Buried Ruin
- Warping Wail
- Temple of the False God
- Expedition Map
- Geode Golem
- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- Dreamstone Hedron
- Echoes of Eternity
- It That Betrays
- Reliquary Tower
- Titan's Presence
- Not of This World
- Oblivion Sower
- Emrakul, the Promised End
- Null Elemental Blast
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Urza's Cave
- Manifold Key
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.