Pact Negation by user5715330

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Vociferous Codex

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck, helmed by Codie, Vociferous Codex, is a five-color instant/sorcery-only combo-control pile. The commander's static restriction-you cannot cast permanent spells-forces every nonland card to be an instant or sorcery. The primary game plan is to use rituals and mana-fixing to land Codie early, then abuse its activated ability to generate free mana and cascade into extra-turn spells such as Chance for Glory and Alchemist's Gambit. "End the turn" effects like Time Stop and Discontinuity are used to dodge the "you lose the game" delayed triggers, creating chains of extra turns. The finisher is Approach of the Second Sun (cast twice) or an enormous Torment of Hailfire. However, the list contains several permanent cards (Hive Mind, Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Sol Ring, Leyline of Anticipation, Lethal Vapors) that the commander's restriction makes literally uncastable, rendering them dead draws and fundamentally undermining the deck's consistency.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Gambit
  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Animist's Awakening
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bind
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Chance for Glory
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Codie, Vociferous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Day's Undoing
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Devastation Tide
  • 1 Dig Up
  • 1 Discontinuity
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Disrupt
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Everybody Lives!
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glorious End
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grip of Amnesia
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Hive Mind
  • 1 Intervention Pact
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Lethal Vapors
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Magosi, the Waterveil
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manamorphose
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Meditate
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Obeka, Brute Chronologist
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Pact of the Titan
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Reset
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 1 Sundial of the Infinite
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Ultima
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Watery Grave