Prepare to die by Pappironni

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck utilizes Codie, Ravenous Codex to helm a 5-color spellslinger strategy centered on creatures with prepare spells. These modal creatures enter the battlefield ready to cast powerful instant or sorcery copies, which Codie immediately doubles upon casting. Supported by robust mana dorks like Bloom Tender and fixers like Chromatic Lantern, the deck ramps into its 5-color activation to repeatedly re-prepare its board. On Turn 6, the deck initiates an explosive storm turn by chaining doubled rituals such as Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song into massive card advantage like Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall. The resulting spell velocity triggers win conditions such as Guttersnipe, Flaming Tyrannosaurus, and Tendrils of Agony for lethal burn, or floods the board with evasive tokens via Docent of Perfection and Deekah, Fractal Theorist to close the game on Turn 7. Secondary engines like Jeskai Ascendancy and Thousand-Year Storm ensure high resilience even without the commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Aziza, Mage Tower Captain
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deekah, Fractal Theorist
  • 1 Diary of Dreams
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
  • 1 Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 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 Eshki Dragonclaw
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Flickering Hound
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 1 Identity Echo
  • 1 Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace's Sanctum
  • 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kellan, the Kid
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Kykar, Wind's Fury
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magmablood Archaic
  • 1 Mizzix of the Izmagnus
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Silverquill, the Disputant
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Storm, Force of Nature
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Striding Shotcaller // Run the Play
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 The World Tree
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Yavimaya Bloomsage // Channel
  • 1 Young Pyromancer