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Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi MV 10

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What it does

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.

Combos with Kozilek, the Great Distortion

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Mind Over Matter Strionic Resonator Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
    • Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Mind Over Matter Lithoform Engine Infinite
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite looting
    • Infinite self-discard triggers
    • Near-infinite card draw
    • Near-infinite mana permanents you control can produce
    • Near-infinite untap of permanents you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 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

    If there's an X in the mana cost of the card you discard, that X is 0. Any X in the mana cost of the target spell will have whatever value was determined for it as the spell was cast.

  • 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 {2}{W}) that's been cast for its awaken cost of 5 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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Kozilek, the Great Distortion, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Zhulodok, Void Gorger 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Colorless 1 deck

Every version of Kozilek, the Great Distortion

7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Kozilek, the Great Distortion. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.