Commander Codie by JDubs21

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy five-color spellslinger list built around the prepare mechanic, creature-based spellcraft, and spell copying. Helmed by Codie, Ravenous Codex, the deck uses low-cost ramp and multicolored mana engines like Bloom Tender and Faeburrow Elder to establish an early operational board by Turn 3 or 4. Its primary win condition leverages Displacer Kitten alongside prepare creatures such as Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song to generate infinite mana and casts. This enables repeated blinking of utility and tutor creatures like Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea or Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor to locate lethal finishers, including looped Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt activations or a decisive Torment of Hailfire. The list is fortified with top-tier free counterspells, proactive shielding such as Silence and Veil of Summer, and potent graveyard recursion through Underworld Breach.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 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 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Maelstrom Artisan // Rocket Volley
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spara's Headquarters
  • 1 Spellbook Seeker // Careful Study
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Traumatic Critique
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel
  • 1 Zagoth Triome