Be Prepared! by Ingloryus1

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color creature midrange list built around the prepare mechanic, commanded by Codie, Ravenous Codex. Rather than functioning as a traditional spell-slinger engine, Codie acts as a copy multiplier for prepare spells and a late-game activation engine to re-prepare the entire creature suite. The deck curves low-cost prepare creatures into Codie on Turn 3, unlocking doubled ramp, token generation, and card selection by Turn 4. Midgame development pivots into wide token generation with Strife Scholar // Awaken the Ages and high-impact payoffs such as Fecund Greenshell, Curious Colossus, and Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall. Lethality arrives around Turn 7 as a formidable wide board pushes through combat damage over two response cycles, closing the game around Turn 9. While the engine offers consistent synergy and moderate resilience via onboard protective creatures like Tam, Mindful First-Year, it features minimal reactive interaction and relies heavily on untapping with multiple creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adept Watershaper
  • 1 Adventurous Eater // Have a Bite
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blossom-Blessed Angel // Seed Suture
  • 1 Bothersome Quasit
  • 1 Bountiful Landscape
  • 1 Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Curious Colossus
  • 1 Darigaaz's Caldera
  • 1 Dimension X
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 1 Emergency Phytomedic // Seed Suture
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Encouraging Aviator // Jump
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fatehold Chronologist // Peer Review
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feral Deathgorger // Dusk Sight
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Hallway Heckler // Vicious Verse
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 1 Honorbound Page // Forum's Favor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Lake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing
  • 1 Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
  • 1 Magmablood Archaic
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pyre Rhymer // Molten Tide
  • 1 Quill-Blade Laureate // Twofold Intent
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rancorous Archaic
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rith's Grove
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Rupture Spire
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
  • 1 Stormkeld Vanguard // Bear Down
  • 1 Strife Scholar // Awaken the Ages
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sundering Archaic
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tam, Mindful First-Year
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer
  • 1 Threadbind Clique // Rip the Seams
  • 1 Transcendent Archaic
  • 1 Treva's Ruins
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Void Extrapolator // Omit Variables
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty