Preparation by DaGuc

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a 5-color Spellslinger Storm strategy built around Codie, Ravenous Codex and creatures featuring the prepare mechanic. Prepare creatures enter the battlefield ready to cast an adventure-like spell copy from themselves, which Codie duplicates upon casting. The deck accelerates through early land-ramp sorceries and low-cost creature ramp before deploying Codie alongside high-impact prepare creatures like Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall and Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song. Once assembled, the deck leverages magecraft triggers, spell doublers, and Displacer Kitten to blink prepare creatures, repeatedly resetting their prepared state. This engine generates overwhelming mana velocity and card advantage, culminating in a single-turn storm finish on Turn 6 using pingers like Witherbloom Apprentice, Fiery Inscription, and Guttersnipe, or a massive multi-copied Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate. While reliant on creature-heavy setup and vulnerable to sweepers, its card flow and storm ceiling make it highly explosive.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Annie Joins Up
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Elven Chorus
  • 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 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexhaven Dueling Arena
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Jeskai Ascendancy
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Kellan, the Kid
  • 1 Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
  • 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
  • 1 Leyline of the Guildpact
  • 1 Longshot, Rebel Bowman
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prismari, the Inspiration
  • 1 Prismatic Omen
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Resonating Lute
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
  • 1 Skycoach Waypoint
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Lotus
  • 1 Twinning Staff
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether