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Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi · {8}{C}{C} · Colorless commander

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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What Kozilek, the Great Distortion actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Kozilek, the Great Distortion deck needs

Plays as Eldrazi finisher (refill & counters). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Kozilek, the Great Distortion deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Kozilek, the Great Distortion

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. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  2. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
  6. Skyshaper2 mana
  7. Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana
  8. Thunderhawk Gunship6 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. Zuko's Exile5 mana
  7. Clay Golem4 mana
  8. Lazotep Quarry0 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
  2. Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
  3. Moonsilver Key2 mana
  4. Pattern Matcher4 mana
  5. Shrine Steward5 mana
  6. Self-Assembler5 mana
  7. Pyre of Heroes2 mana
  8. Tamiyo's Journal5 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Selective Obliteration5 mana
  2. Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
  3. Karn's Sylex3 mana
  4. Calamity of the Titans6 mana
  5. Apocalypse Chime2 mana
  6. The Moment2 mana
  7. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  8. Coercive Portal4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. The One Ring4 mana
  3. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  4. Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
  5. Key to the City2 mana
  6. Mask of Memory2 mana
  7. Tome of Legends2 mana
  8. Buster Sword3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  2. Chalice of the Void0 mana
  3. Not of This World7 mana
  4. Kozilek, the Great Distortion10 mana
  5. Null Elemental Blast1 mana
  6. Void Mirror2 mana
  7. Jester's Scepter3 mana
  8. Warping Wail2 mana

Combos with Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Kozilek, the Great Distortion is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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