Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Legendary Creature — Eldrazi

Mana cost: {8}{C}{C}

How we read this card

When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference.

triggered — draws you cards

Menace
Counter target spell with mana value X.

activated Discard a card with mana value X —

activated Discard a card with mana value X —

What a deck led by this card wants

Causes: draw a card, discard a card, counter a spell.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

hits creature — 2,298 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

  1. Jalira, Master Polymorphist — Jalira, Master Polymorphist can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  2. Polymorph — Polymorph can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  3. Birthing Ritual — Birthing Ritual can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  4. Industrial Advancement — Industrial Advancement can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  5. Killer Instinct — Killer Instinct can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  6. Arthur, Marigold Knight — Arthur, Marigold Knight can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  7. Proteus Staff — Proteus Staff can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  8. Synthetic Destiny — Synthetic Destiny can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  9. Divergent Transformations — Divergent Transformations can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library
  10. Transmogrify — Transmogrify can put Kozilek, the Great Distortion onto the battlefield from your library

8 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an Eldrazi creature is cast — 226 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion is cast:

  1. Emrakul's Influence — draws you 2 cards
  2. Kozilek's Return — exiles a card from a graveyard

an Eldrazi creature it makes cheaper to cast — 273 cards in the game can cause this.

  1. Eye of Ugin — Eye of Ugin reduces what Kozilek, the Great Distortion costs

272 other cards cause it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion makes a player draw a card:

  1. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  2. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  3. Aether Syphon — mills a card
  4. The Locust God — makes a token
  5. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  6. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  7. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  8. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0
  9. Iron Man, Armored Avenger — puts a counter on a creature
  10. The Astonishing Ant-Man — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

57 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

Kozilek, the Great Distortion:

  1. Samwise Gamgee — puts cards into the graveyard that Samwise Gamgee can bring back
  2. Bloodbond March — puts cards into the graveyard that Bloodbond March can bring back
  3. Thor, God of Thunder — puts cards into the graveyard that Thor, God of Thunder can bring back
  4. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — puts cards into the graveyard that Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy can bring back
  5. Harness the Storm — puts cards into the graveyard that Harness the Storm can bring back
  6. Transplant Theorist — puts cards into the graveyard that Transplant Theorist can bring back
  7. Heart-Shaped Herb — puts cards into the graveyard that Heart-Shaped Herb can bring back
  8. Wayward Angel — fills your graveyard toward the 7 or more cards Wayward Angel needs
  9. Rescue from the Underworld — puts cards into the graveyard that Rescue from the Underworld can bring back
  10. Victimize — puts cards into the graveyard that Victimize can bring back

434 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything goes to a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Kozilek, the Great Distortion:

  1. Quest for Ancient Secrets — puts a quest counter on itself
  2. Planar Void — hits a graveyard
  3. Measure of Wickedness — gives an opponent control of itself
  4. Energy Field — sacrifices itself

7 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion attacks:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — deals 1 damage
  2. Invisible Woman — triggers
  3. Caesar, Legion's Emperor — sacrifices a creature
  4. Guide of Souls — triggers

125 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature attacks — 17,934 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion attacks:

  1. Adaptive Omnitool — searches a library
  2. Saw — sacrifices a creature

199 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a creature enters the battlefield — 19,800 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

When Kozilek, the Great Distortion enters:

  1. Slash, Reptile Rampager — deals 2 damage
  2. Gimli of the Glittering Caves — puts counters on a permanent
  3. Ray Fillet, Wave Warrior — puts a counter on itself
  4. Legolas Greenleaf — puts a counter on a permanent
  5. The Neutrinos — gets +1/+0
  6. Aetherstorm Roc — puts a counter on a permanent you control
  7. Raphael, Most Attitude — exiles a card from your library

347 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

anything enters the battlefield — 26,499 cards in the game can cause this (Kozilek is one).

  1. Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle — When Kozilek, the Great Distortion enters, Prowl, Stoic Strategist // Prowl, Pursuit Vehicle puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

60 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.