Prepare to Learn ๐Ÿ“– Original by Kayode

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a five-color midrange spellslinger list centered on Codie, Ravenous Codex and the Prepare mechanic. The strategy revolves around casting split prepare creatures that enter ready to cast their integrated instant or sorcery spells. When cast, Codie duplicates these prepared spells, generating substantial card advantage, ramp, and board presence. The deck uses an extensive suite of flexible two-color modal charms to interact with opposing threats at instant speed while advancing its own graveyard and token engines. In the mid-to-late game, the deck converts its resource surplus into victory by creating large fractal and elemental swarms with Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift and Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria, or by chaining multiple spells through Thousand-Year Storm and Ajani's Anguish. It balances a high density of redundant prepare creatures with robust interaction and recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abigale, Poet Laureate // Heroic Stanza
  • 1 Adventurous Eater // Have a Bite
  • 1 Ajani's Anguish
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Campus Composer // Aqueous Aria
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deduce
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
  • 1 Emergency Phytomedic // Seed Suture
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fatehold Charm
  • 1 Fatehold Chronologist // Peer Review
  • 1 Fields of Strife
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hardened Academic
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Helping Hand
  • 1 Honorbound Page // Forum's Favor
  • 1 Infirmary Healer // Stream of Life
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift
  • 1 Kirol, History Buff // Pack a Punch
  • 1 Konstrari Charm
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Lluwen, Exchange Student // Pest Friend
  • 1 Lorehold Charm
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Null Summoner
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Proctor of Potential
  • 1 Prudent Fateseer // Peer Review
  • 1 Pyre Rhymer // Molten Tide
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solarium Sentry
  • 1 Spectacle Summit
  • 1 Spiritcall Enthusiast // Scrollboost
  • 1 Stingerquill Charm
  • 1 Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
  • 1 Stinging Vitriol
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Strife Scholar // Awaken the Ages
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Tenured Tethermage
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Theorix Metamage // Omit Variables
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Vigorbloom Charm
  • 1 Vigorbloom Vanguard // Seed Suture
  • 1 Whiplash Wordsmith // Vicious Verse
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether