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Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · {10} · Colorless commander

When you cast this spell, draw four cards. Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.) When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
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What Kozilek, Butcher of Truth actually does

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What a Kozilek, Butcher of Truth deck wants

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Best cards for Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  2. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  3. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Agility Bobblehead3 mana
  6. Smoke Bomb3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. Chronicle of Victory6 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Artisan of Kozilek9 mana
  2. Flayer of Loyalties10 mana
  3. It That Betrays12 mana
  4. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth10 mana
  5. Pathrazer of Ulamog11 mana
  6. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre11 mana
  7. Breaker of Creation8 mana
  8. Ulamog's Crusher8 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. High Market0 mana
  2. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  3. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  4. Ulamog's Dreadsire10 mana
  5. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  6. Ashnod's Altar3 mana
  7. Witch's Oven1 mana
  8. Claws of Gix0 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
  2. Titan's Presence3 mana
  3. Kozilek's Command2 mana
  4. Warping Wail2 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Getaway Car3 mana
  7. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  8. Voyager Staff1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  2. Coercive Portal4 mana
  3. Worldslayer5 mana
  4. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. All Is Dust7 mana
  7. Trailblazer's Torch4 mana
  8. False Floor4 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Myr Kinsmith4 mana
  2. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  3. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  4. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  5. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  6. Shrine Steward5 mana
  7. Myr Turbine5 mana
  8. Self-Assembler5 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  4. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Smuggler's Copter2 mana
  8. Tome of Legends2 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Cryptothrall4 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  3. Mox Amber0 mana
  4. Mox Diamond0 mana
  5. Mox Opal0 mana
  6. Mana Vault1 mana
  7. Sol Ring1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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