
Codie, Ravenous Codex
Codie, Ravenous Codex Commander Deck
The deck fills the board with creatures that carry prepare spells, then casts those cheap built-in spells again and again while Codie copies each one. Codie's five-color activation re-prepares the whole team at once, and blink effects, re-entry and "becomes prepared" triggers keep resetting individual creatures. Copy amplifiers, magecraft payoffs and cast-from-outside-the-hand payoffs turn every prepared cast into a stack of cards, mana and value. How it wins: It snowballs prepared-spell chains into mass life drain, burn and token armies, or assembles a blink loop of Displacer Kitten, Biblioplex Tomekeeper, Emeritus of Conflict and Storm-Kiln Artist for infinite Lightning Bolts. Key roles: - Five-color mana for re-preparing: Treasure makers, mana dorks and creatures turned into any-color mana sources reliably pay for Codie's WUBRG reset and the stream of prepared casts (Bloom Tender, Cryptolith Rite, Leyline of the Guildpact). - Blink resets: Flicker effects send prepared creatures back in fresh so they re-enter prepared, and can point re-preparing enter triggers at any creature (Displacer Kitten, Flickering Hound, Biblioplex Tomekeeper). - Copy multipliers: Extra copies stack on top of Codie's trigger, so each prepared tutor, draw spell or burn spell resolves several times (Twinning Staff, Pigment Wrangler, Annie Joins Up). - Cast and copy payoffs: Prepared spells are cast as copies from outside the hand and Codie copies them, which feeds magecraft card draw and Treasure and "cast from elsewhere" triggers (Storm-Kiln Artist, Archmage Emeritus, Vega, the Watcher). - Prepared value toolkit: Free Demonic Tutor, Ancestral Recall, Reanimate, Swords to Plowshares and ritual effects give card advantage, interaction and mana with every copy (Emeritus of Woe, Emeritus of Ideation, Blazing Firesinger). - Finishers: Copied X-spells, drain and burn close games, and the Kitten-and-Tomekeeper blink loop re-prepares Lightning Bolt endlessly while Treasure pays for it (Stensian Sanguinist, Jadzi, Steward of Fate, Emeritus of Conflict).
Codie, Ravenous Codex decklist
- Arcane Signet
- Resonating Lute
- Sol Ring
- Timeless Lotus
- Twinning Staff
- Arid Mesa
- Blood Crypt
- Breeding Pool
- Cascading Cataracts
- Command Tower
- Exotic Orchard
- Fabled Passage
- Flooded Strand
- 2× Forest
- Godless Shrine
- Hallowed Fountain
- 4× Island
- Misty Rainforest
- 2× Mountain
- Overgrown Farmland
- Overgrown Tomb
- 2× Plains
- Polluted Delta
- Reflecting Pool
- Reliquary Tower
- Sacred Foundry
- Scalding Tarn
- Skycoach Waypoint
- Steam Vents
- Stomping Ground
- 2× Swamp
- Temple Garden
- Verdant Catacombs
- Watery Grave
- Windswept Heath
- Wooded Foothills
- Archmage Emeritus
- Biblioplex Tomekeeper
- Birds of Paradise
- Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
- Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
- Bloom Tender
- Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
- Dirgur Focusmage // Braingeyser
- Displacer Kitten
- Diviner of Victory // Unwind History
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
- Elite Interceptor // Rejoinder
- Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
- Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
- Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
- Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
- Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
- Flickering Hound
- Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
- Grave Researcher // Reanimate
- Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
- Heartwood Crafter // Soul Tether
- Inspired Skypainter // Maestro's Gift
- Jadzi, Steward of Fate // Oracle's Gift
- Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
- Kellan, the Kid
- Konstrari Improviser // Soul Tether
- Landscape Painter // Vibrant Idea
- Leech Collector // Bloodletting
- Maelstrom Artisan // Rocket Volley
- Party Thrasher
- Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
- Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act
- Pyre Rhymer // Molten Tide
- Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
- Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
- Skycoach Conductor // All Aboard
- Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
- Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
- Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
- Variable Chaser // Arc of Fortune
- Vega, the Watcher
- Vigorbloom Vanguard // Seed Suture
- Woodwork Prodigy // Soul Tether
- Annie Joins Up
- Cryptolith Rite
- Leyline of the Guildpact
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Heroic Intervention
- Path to Exile
- Swords to Plowshares
- Blasphemous Act
- Farseek
- Three Visits