Prepared Storm by user75384

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This five-color deck combines spell-copying mechanics and Magecraft synergies with several compact combo finishes. Commanded by Codie, Ravenous Codex, the deck uses prepare creatures and instant-speed utility spells to generate card advantage, ramp mana, and assemble game-winning combinations. Its primary plan relies on resolving a Magecraft pinger—such as Ral, Storm Conduit or Professor Onyx—and casting Chain of Smog targeting itself. Because Chain of Smog allows infinite self-targeting copies, it triggers Magecraft repeatedly to deal lethal damage or drain all opponents to zero in a single turn. Backup win conditions include Heliod, Sun-Crowned with Walking Ballista, Isochron Scepter with Dramatic Reversal, and late-game locks like Solemnity with Decree of Silence. A mid-speed mana base of bounce lands and mana rocks provides steady mana fixing, while counterspells and Grand Abolisher protect decisive combo turns against opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A Realm Reborn
  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Abstract Paintmage
  • 1 Abstruse Interference
  • 1 Abzan Banner
  • 1 Accomplished Alchemist
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 All-Fates Scroll
  • 1 Alloy Myr
  • 1 Annex
  • 1 Apprentice Wizard
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atarka's Command
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Blossom-Blessed Angel // Seed Suture
  • 1 Boros Garrison
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chromatic Orrery
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Daring Apprentice
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Disruptive Pitmage
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Elemental Eruption
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Ertai, Wizard Adept
  • 1 Ertai, the Corrupted
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exterminate!
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Monument
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hindering Touch
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Izzet Boilerworks
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom Artisan // Rocket Volley
  • 1 Mirrorshell Crab
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Ral, Storm Conduit
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stormscale Scion
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Volcanic Awakening
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Weather the Storm
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast