Zellix, Sanity Flayer
~$24.78 low · ~$125.88 high
Blue. Legendary Creature — Horror
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #652 · Illustrated by Slawomir Maniak
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #652 · Illustrated by Slawomir ManiakWhat is Zellix, Sanity Flayer worth?
1 printing not yet released. Preorder prices are preview data and will change. Releases October 19, 2026.
Highest TCGplayer price
~$125.88
Extended Art foil · Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate #619
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Oracle text
Hive Mind — Whenever a player mills one or more creature cards, you create a 1/1 black Horror creature token.
, 
: Target player mills three cards.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
2/3
Format legality
All 3 printings of Zellix, Sanity Flayer
| Printing | Rarity | Non-foil | Foil | Cardmarket (EUR) | My collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The List plst #CLB-652· 2026Preordermythic | mythic | — | No foil printing | — | |
 Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate clb #619· 2022Extended Artmythic· Cardmarket €26.96 · €91.22 foil | mythic | $27.98 | $125.88 | €26.96€91.22 foil | |
 Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate clb #652· 2022mythic· Cardmarket €24.09 foil | mythic | No non-foil printing | $24.78 | €24.09 foil |
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Card details
- First printed
- 2022
- Printings
- 3
- Mana value
- 3
- EDHREC rank
- #3,036 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
- Keywords
- Choose a background, Hive Mind, Mill
- Artist
- Slawomir Maniak
What the codes mean
The small print at the bottom of the Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate card (#652).
652 · CLB · M · EN
- 652Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
- CLBSet code for Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate
- MMythic rare
- ENPrinted in English
- ★Foil. On foil cards a star replaces the dot between the set code and the language code.
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Card breakdown
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Bottom: stats and the info line
Keywords
- MillCR 701.17
- Put cards from the top of a library into the graveyard.
Rule numbers from the Magic Comprehensive Rules, version of September 25, 2026.
Rulings (10)
2022-06-10
Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
2022-06-10
You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.
2022-06-10
If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
2022-06-10
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
2022-06-10
If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
2022-06-10
If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
2022-06-10
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).2022-06-10
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
2022-06-10
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
2022-06-10
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
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