Prepare For Trouble by Mwd232s

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color spellslinger and midrange engine commanded by Codie, Ravenous Codex. The list leverages a unique suite of prepare creatures whose integrated instant and sorcery spells are copied whenever they are cast with Codie on the battlefield. Early turns focus on mana ramp and fixing through cards like Farseek, Three Visits, Faeburrow Elder, and Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth. Once Codie is established on Turn 3 and operational on Turn 4, casting prepared spells such as Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall and Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor creates overwhelming card advantage and precise tutoring. On Turn 5, the deck transitions to a must-answer state by deploying major payoffs like Professor Onyx, Storm-Kiln Artist, or Rite of the Dragoncaller. On Turn 6, the deck closes the game by storming through copied spells to drain the table with Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate or accumulated Magecraft triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Baxter Building
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Biblioplex Tomekeeper
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play
  • 2 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Turbulent Steppe
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel