The Little Tome That Came Prepared: cEDH Edition by EDHCommander

Format: Commander

Commander: Codie, Ravenous Codex

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 90

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized five-color competitive Commander deck centered on fast mana, compact combo lines, and storm finishes. Built around premier win conditions like Thassa's Oracle combined with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, the list also features a complete Underworld Breach, Brain Freeze, and Lion's Eye Diamond loop. A rich mana base of original dual lands, fetchlands, and fast artifact mana enables regular Turn 2 setup and Turn 3 wins. Massive draw engines like Ad Nauseam and Necropotence quickly refill resources, while universal tutors like Demonic Tutor and Imperial Seal eliminate variance. The deck protects its win turns with free counterspells such as Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat, alongside disruptive support like Hexing Squelcher and Orcish Bowmasters. By bypassing combat entirely and executing directly on the stack, the deck creates immediate same-turn wins with zero opponent response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Codie, Ravenous Codex
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Quarry
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Divining Witch
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emiel the Blessed
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fireball
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ignoble Hierarch
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Naktamun Lorespinner // Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Noble Hierarch
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth