Prepared To Be Dazzed by BoreDum

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Codie, Ravenous Codex as a 5-color value engine and spell duplicator centered around the prepare mechanic. Prepare creatures enter ready to cast potent spell copies such as Ancestral Recall, Seething Song, Demonic Tutor, and Swords to Plowshares. Codie doubles every prepared spell cast, creating immense card draw and mana velocity when paired with magecraft engines like Archmage Emeritus, Storm-Kiln Artist, and Veyran, Voice of Duality. The deck accelerates through early ramp on Turns 1–3, establishes Codie and a value engine on Turn 4, and unleashes a game-ending storm turn on Turn 5. The primary finish channels massive mana into a multi-copied Exsanguinate or chains spell casts with Guttersnipe to burn out the entire table in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza
  • 1 Airbender Ascension
  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 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 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fatehold Chronologist // Peer Review
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kellan, the Kid
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Ral, Crackling Wit
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vigorbloom Vanguard // Seed Suture
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel