Kozilek's Sentinel
Creature — Eldrazi Drone
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #26947
Kozilek's Sentinel is a 1/4 defender for two mana that grows by +1/+0 every time you cast a colorless spell — in the right shell, that's a threat that scales for free. The rate is narrow but real: outside of dedicated colorless or Eldrazi builds, it does almost nothing.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Kozilek's Sentinel is a niche role-player in Commander, where colorless-matters and Eldrazi-tribal decks — led by commanders like Zhulodok, Void Gorger or Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre — can trigger it repeatedly in a single turn and turn it into a legitimate beater. In Pauper it competes in Walls or Defender combo shells, though the colorless trigger condition is harder to satisfy consistently there. Modern and Pioneer have faster, more redundant threats at the same mana cost, so Kozilek's Sentinel rarely sees play in those formats outside of budget Eldrazi shells. Legacy and Vintage are simply too powerful an environment for a conditional 1/4 to matter.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Kozilek's Sentinel is deep bulk — you're paying near-nothing for a card that fills a very specific slot. It holds that floor price because demand is low and supply is high, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.