Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
Legendary Creature — Dinosaur
Trample
Lethal damage dealt to creatures you control is determined by their power rather than their toughness.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Masters
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #8664
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate turns your creatures' power into their toughness for combat damage purposes, which means a 10/1 hits like a 10/10 — every oversized attacker in green and red suddenly becomes nearly impossible to chump. The cost is a six-mana legendary that does nothing outside of combat, so it lives and dies by whether your deck is already built around swinging with high-power creatures; Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder decks are the canonical home precisely because they are.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder cares about dealing combat damage, and Zilortha, Strength Incarnate ensures that no chump blocker can prevent it — a 1/1 blocking your 7/1 still eats 7 damage through, so opponents either take the hit or trade a real creature.
Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
Anzrag, the Quake-Mole punishes opponents for not blocking, and Zilortha, Strength Incarnate makes blocking almost always a losing proposition — the combination forces bad choices every combat step.
Neyith of the Dire Hunt
Neyith of the Dire Hunt draws cards when your creatures get into fights, and Zilortha, Strength Incarnate makes those fights heavily one-sided by letting high-power creatures survive brawls they'd normally lose on toughness.
Illuna, Apex of Wishes
Illuna, Apex of Wishes is itself a 6/6 flier that wants to mutate onto a big base creature, and Zilortha, Strength Incarnate means any power-inflated mutate stack becomes nearly unkillable in combat — a stacked Illuna hitting for 9+ can't be cleanly blocked by anything reasonable.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Zilortha, Strength Incarnate actually earns its slot — six mana is acceptable in a format where games go long, and the ability scales hard when you're playing 5/1s, 8/1s, or anything with inflated power relative to toughness. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, it's a six-mana do-nothing-on-entry creature in a format that asks for impact the turn it enters; it doesn't see play there. Pioneer is legal but similarly uninterested — the card requires a full synergy deck to justify, and that deck doesn't exist at that level. Oathbreaker is a real consideration if your signature spell is combat-oriented, but the 100-card singleton environment of Commander remains the only context where Zilortha, Strength Incarnate shows up with any regularity.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Current pricing data for Zilortha, Strength Incarnate isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow application — almost exclusively Commander, and specifically high-power combat decks — demand stays modest, and it's rarely a card that spikes.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Mr. Orfeo, the Boulder
- Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
- Neyith of the Dire Hunt
- Illuna, Apex of Wishes
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.