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Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color spellslinger engine built around Codie, Ravenous Codex and creature cards with the Prepare mechanic. In this deck, Prepare creatures enter the battlefield ready to cast one-shot instant or sorcery copies of their back half, which Codie immediately duplicates upon casting. Early turns establish a wide mana base using efficient ramp, cost reducers like Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius, and ritual creatures. By Turn 4, casting doubled prepare spells such as Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall floods the hand with resources. In the midgame, the deck transitions into explosive spell chains leveraging Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, and Thousand-Year Storm. The win condition materializes on Turn 6 to 7 through wide armies created by The Lost and the Damned or direct burn and life drain from Shadow of the Goblin and Leech Collector, backed by efficient interactive counterspells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Biblioplex Tomekeeper
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Choreographed Sparks
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 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 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire Lord Zuko
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether