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Codie, Vociferous Codex
You can't cast permanent spells.
, : Add . When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
, : Add . When you next cast a spell this turn, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile an instant or sorcery card with lesser mana value. Until end of turn, you may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put each other card exiled this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Legendary Creature Artifact - Construct Book
Commander
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Mizzix's Mastery
Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery.
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Sorcery
Bandit's Secret (Theft/GY)
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Increasing Vengeance
Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
See Double
This spell can't be copied.
Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead.
• Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
Choose one. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, you may choose both instead.
• Copy target spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.)
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature.
Instant
Copy
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Curse of the Cabal
Target player sacrifices half the permanents they control of their choice, rounded down.
Suspend 2— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if this card is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent of their choice. If the player does, put two time counters on this card.
Suspend 2— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with two time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, if this card is suspended, that player may sacrifice a permanent of their choice. If the player does, put two time counters on this card.
Sorcery
Counter/Removal
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Draw/Tutor/Regrowth
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Disorienting Choice
For each opponent, choose up to one target artifact or enchantment that player controls. For each permanent chosen this way, its controller may exile it. Then if one or more of the chosen permanents are still on the battlefield, you search your library for up to that many land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Sorcery
Titania's Command
Choose two —
• Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.
• Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
• Exile target player's graveyard. You gain 1 life for each card exiled this way.
• Search your library for up to two land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
• Create two 2/2 green Bear creature tokens.
• Put two +1/+1 counters on each creature you control.
Sorcery
Gardenscaping (Ramp)
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Granite Blast (Burn)
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Abstract Performance
Exile the top four cards of your library in a face-down pile, then exile the top four cards of your library in a face-up pile. An opponent chooses one of those piles. Put that pile into your graveyard. Look at the cards in the other pile. You may cast a spell from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest into your hand.
Sorcery
Creative Technique
Demonstrate (When you cast this spell, you may copy it. If you do, choose an opponent to also copy it.)
Shuffle your library, then reveal cards from the top of it until you reveal a nonland card. Exile that card and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Shuffle your library, then reveal cards from the top of it until you reveal a nonland card. Exile that card and put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.
Sorcery
Hit the Mother Lode
Discover 10. If the discovered card's mana value is less than 10, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to the difference. (To discover 10, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 10 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)
Sorcery
Idle Death Gamble
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Great Hall of the Biblioplex
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, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
: If this land isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/4 Wizard creature with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.
, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
: If this land isn't a creature, it becomes a 2/4 Wizard creature with "Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn." It's still a land.
Land
The Biblioplex
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, : Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.
, : Look at the top card of your library. If it's an instant or sorcery card, you may reveal it and put it into your hand. If you don't put the card into your hand, you may put it into your graveyard. Activate only if you have exactly zero or seven cards in hand.
Land
Land
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Leitmotif Composer
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 5 or greater, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
: Creatures named Leitmotif Composer can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value 5 or greater, create a token that's a copy of this creature.
: Creatures named Leitmotif Composer can't be blocked this turn.
Creature - Human Bard
Pet Cards
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Breach the Multiverse
Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.
Sorcery
Shikigami Swarms (Tokens/Creatures)
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Finale of Promise
You may cast up to one target instant card and/or up to one target sorcery card from your graveyard each with mana value X or less without paying their mana costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If X is 10 or more, copy each of those spells twice. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Sorcery
Improvisation Capstone
Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile cards with total mana value 4 or greater. You may cast any number of spells from among them without paying their mana costs.
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Paradigm (Then exile this spell. After you first resolve a spell with this name, you may cast a copy of it from exile without paying its mana cost at the beginning of each of your first main phases.)
Sorcery - Lesson
Knowledge Exploitation
Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Search target opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player shuffles.
Search target opponent's library for an instant or sorcery card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then that player shuffles.
Sorcery Kindred - Rogue
Sorcerous Squall
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Target opponent mills nine cards, then you may cast an instant or sorcery spell from that player's graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.
Sorcery
The Emperor of Palamecia
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Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on The Emperor of Palamecia. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform it.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, if at least four mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on The Emperor of Palamecia. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, transform it.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Noble
Sideboard
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Hurkyl's Final Meditation
During turns other than yours, this spell costs more to cast.
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Return all nonland permanents to their owners' hands. End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack, including this card. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
Instant
Pillage the Bog
Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is twice the number of lands you control. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Plot (You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Sorcery
Seize the Storm
Create a red Elemental creature token with trample and "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard plus the number of cards with flashback you own in exile."
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Soulfire Eruption
Choose any number of target creatures, planeswalkers, and/or players. For each of them, exile the top card of your library, then Soulfire Eruption deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. You may play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.
Sorcery
Stolen Identity
Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature.
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Cipher (Then you may exile this spell card encoded on a creature you control. Whenever that creature deals combat damage to a player, its controller may cast a copy of the encoded card without paying its mana cost.)
Sorcery
Tempt with Mayhem
Tempting offer — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Each opponent may copy that spell and may choose new targets for the copy they control. You copy that spell once plus an additional time for each opponent who copied the spell this way. You may choose new targets for the copies you control.
Instant
Tunnel Vision
Choose a card name. Target player reveals cards from the top of their library until a card with that name is revealed. If it is, that player puts the rest of the revealed cards into their graveyard and puts the card with the chosen name on top of their library. Otherwise, the player shuffles.
Sorcery
Undying Flames
Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card. Undying Flames deals damage to any target equal to that card's mana value.
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
Epic (For the rest of the game, you can't cast spells. At the beginning of each of your upkeeps, copy this spell except for its epic ability. You may choose a new target for the copy.)
Sorcery
Wake the Dragon
Create a 6/6 black and red Dragon creature token with flying, menace, and "Whenever this token deals combat damage to a player, gain control of target artifact that player controls."
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Flashback (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Maybeboard
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Speak softly and cast big spells.\nI freaking love codie. Got sick of the mill/reanimator loop build relying so hard on my opponents playing big timmy bomb creatures and the milling made too many people unreasonably salty so i took a big hiatus with the deck. this time around i wanted to focus even more on big mana spells to sling, splashing in a handful of instant/sorcery theft effects because i can't help myself. a lot of the draw/ramp/tutor/removal is the same, just replaced the mill and reanimator cards with more \"fun\" options.\n\nSoS adds some fun new toys for the deck, chiefly Improvisation Captstone and Abstract Performance. They both fit into the curve incredibly nicely and also add more fun topdeck cheating options so you can extend chains of free casts or just generate a bunch of value. Furygale Flocking provides a bunch of nicely statted flying bodies for as low as 2 mana (that still cascades into a 9 mana spell!) and Embrace the Paradox is just urban evolution at instant speed, which is a nice excuse to hold mana up for once. I wish I could run all of the paradigms but the only other one worth consideration is Echocasting Symposium, and that's really just either a way to copy a non-legend you steal from someone else OR, more likely, to give someone else a Codie so they're locked out of permanents, but I'm not sure that does it better than Fractured Identity, and it also doesn't let you make a copy of an opponent's creature like FI so it loses out a little there, too. You almost never have targets for the white one, and the black/green one have terrible pips to cast on-curve so there's not a point to running them without killing consistency.\n\nThe deck is a typical A + B + C combo, where A is every instant and sorcery in the deck, B is every land, and C stands for Codie.\n\nSideboard is just cards i might consider slotting in if i want more consistent wincons again but who needs consistency?\n\nThis time around I'm trying to lean into the cards that care about # of instants/sorceries in your own GY (mostly Gandalf's Sanction for that sexy burn AND removal) but outside of just natty casting, discarding to hand size, or (more relevantly) looping Breach the Multiverse, I'm not sure how many are gonna be in the 'yard in practice. I feel like I usually end up with at least half of my library in the GY by the end of most games but that's been in the more mill-heavy versions of the deck.\n\nHow does this deck even win? Historically, I would run Maze's End as an eventual payoff for all of the gates, but it lead to some seriously boring games and anticlimactic, hollow wins; so I just straight up cut it. Baldur's and Gond Gate are good enough mana payoffs for the gates that also throwing a free win button on top felt overkill for my pod. I also used to run Crackle with Power as a payoff for all of the gate mana, but X spells in general are risky as they do nothing when hit off of codie, which is likely to happen if you are activating him on curve, and it ended up getting put in my GY uselessly more than I ever won with it, so it's also gone. Now I just cast Treacherous Terrain 1-5 times and that usually kills the table in one big beautiful explosion or puts them low enough that the random piles of zombies or pegasi you assemble can clean up fairly easily. Sometimes you can also just put enough tokens or opponent's monsters from the GY on the board you can just beat out and win, barring a board wipe. In my play experience they feel powerful, inconsistent (compliment), and never really unfair, so when people "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"complain"},{"insert":" about not getting to do the thing i can point and laugh that they died to 40 flying horses that I spent 10 mana on. In the burn vein I have recently added in Explosive Singularity as a sort of single-target backup to TT, so I'm not sure how it plays out in practice yet. (I recently won a game by resolving a Mnemonic Deluge exiling Explosive Singularity to dome a fool for 30)\n\nSOME MAJOR WEAKNESSES THE DECK HAS: things like Gaddock or Lavinia Azorius Renegade that straight up stop you from casting your big spells or from meaningfully cascading off of codie can be real wrenches in the works. However, in my experience, these kinds of decks usually turn their attention to other threats at the table before I drop a void rend on the problem card and continue playing like nothing happened. Have I also had games where I basically lost on the spot? Maybe. Who can say.\n\nSECTION BY SECTION BREAKDOWN (WIP), ordered from least to most changeable:\n-Pet Cards\ngetting this out of the way first. Blessed Respite and Deflecting Palm, while probably the two worst spells to cascade into, have won me an insane number of games over the years and I can't imagine playing without them. BR in specific is surprisingly versatile, and deflecting palm can fend off against a voltron'd commander or a burn spell, though recently it has been underperforming.\n\n-The Ramp\nThis has been virtually unchanged for multiple years, all of the decent 2-5 mana generic land or gate tutors, plus the bevvy of simic draw/sneak spells, embrace the paradox being a notable new inclusion. Other new inclusions are sol ring and brass's bounty. Sol ring is one of the best generic options to get codie out on turn 2 and live on turn 3; it goes without saying that this kind of acceleration is insane and i've hesitated to run it just because i'm not sure sacrificing my dignity is worth the 1/15 games i open it, but hey. Another newer and personal inclusion is disorienting choice, or a balanced tempt with discovery. it's live more often than not thanks to the frequency of cheap rocks or value enchantments in my pod, and people are surprisingly willing to let you grab baldur's gate in order to keep their arcane signet. Brass's bounty is a card i go either way on just because of how explosive turns can become if you flip into it or manage to copy it, and i don't want to get TOO solitaire.\n\n-draw/tutor/regrowth\nAnother slew of cards that I've hardly tweaked for years. Scheming symmetry was initially around when i cared about having 1-mana spells, but now it's just a really good political/targeted hug tool and a way to search up anything i might need or want to cascade into. conflux tutor 5 is funny as fuck, especially if you can copy it.\n\n-removal\nthe vegetables. and brother? i love me a salad. there's a lot of expensive cards you can run here so I've tried to keep it to stuff that's on curve, usable, and fun. Endless detour in particular is a favorite of mine, it's so versatile as a pseudo-counterspell in hand or as something you can cascade into. Curtains call deserves a shoutout too, as a 6 mana double murder you can cast for 3 mana and cascade into something juicy. I have not yet managed to resolve Curse of the cabal but that's probably for the best, it's such an intimidating spell, and I actually have suspended it and had it resolve that way (before getting countered, and justly). It becomes a ticking time bomb the entire table can see, and there's almost no aristocrats in my pod so i'm not too worried about someone abusing the free sac.\n\n-burn\nah, burn. my beloved. there's nothing quite like doming someone for 10 multiple times at once. For a while the only burn card i ran was treacherous terrain, but it was such a standout all-star i recently expanded the suite to include Gandalf's sanction and explosive singularity. as-is there's not as much mill as i'd like to make Sanction a REAL powerhouse but it can still reliably hit someone for at least 8 mid to late game, it really depends.\n\n-gamble\nthe core of the deck, with some new inclusions! unexpected results acting as occasional ramp aside, it along with creative technique and hit the mother lode can allow you to chain together some truly heinous turns depending on what you flip into. make your luck, which i love, does take a turn to be able to cast the thing you hit off it, but with much more flexibility and control. abstract performance and improvisation capstone slot perfectly here and i could probably talk about them for paragraphs but i won't. emergent ultimatum can construct some truly heinous doomsday-esque piles from what's left in your deck, often times being a lose-lose-lose for whoever you force the choice on.\n\n-copy\nnot much to say. either spells that act as pseudo-counters or copying my or the tables best stuff. insidious will is good. see double is new, but it can copy ANY kind of spell and sometimes making a token is nice.\n\n-tokens/bodies\nlot of options here, i change these around a lot. storm herd and furygale flocking are new in the list and juicy 10 mana bombs. i once lost a game by casting allure of the unknown and my opponent cast my storm herd off of it and proceeded to beat me to death instantly. and frankly? i deserved it. for a time breach the multiverse was glued to my hand, and i once had a game where i resolved it 5 times.\n"}]}