Knowledge is sometimes quite hard to obtain, if you’ll willing, you’l quite possibly will need to push through As Naseum, and peer into abyss a bit even
I have to share the ALMOST ALL PERMANENTS lunatic degeneracy that is my friend’s Codie deck. The only non-permanent spell in the deck is Primal Surge. There are mana rocks, sacrifice outlets, and a LOT of HUGE creatures, at least half of which are 11 or more mana. He ramps up, gets a sac outlet on board (or metalwork colossus in his graveyard which lets him sacrifice Codie to play it), makes the Codie mana, sacrifices Codie, spends 11+ mana on a massive chonk-bonk brute the size of your mother, and triggers the ability given to the mana Codie produced, which leads to exactly one sorcery - Primal Surge. His entire deck hits the field. Maelstrom wanderer and others give everything haste. Avacyn makes it all indestructible. Blightsteel Colossus and the Eldrazi titans say hello before your mind melts from the glistening oil showing you the blind eternities. Craterhoof behemoth makes everything so thick that they made an ad for Viagra. Draco is there. It That Betrays laughs in tongues. Every single doomsday creature card in magic arrives like it’s Avengers Endgame but Thanos decided to snap everything. I would hate it if it wasn’t the single most glorious abomination I’ve ever seen a magic deck create.
_Can't cast permanents_ _Proceeds to load the deck with every single "take control of X" instant and sorcery you can possibly find_ _Everyone else at the table kindly plays the permanents you can't for you_ That's right, uncle Ricky may not be able to have children but he sure can kidnap everyone who moves into the neighborhood.
My Codie deck used red spells that double/triple the next spell you cast, and Inevitable Betrayal getting free cast from Codie (just cast a 1 cost spell, and it'll find the only 0 cost spell in your deck), together with a bunch of spells to shuffle Inevitable Betrayal back into the deck. Double Double Triple I'm going into each of your decks for 3 creatures of my choice, you have a Blightsteel and a Platinum Angel in here, you deserve this.
@@gatherer818ngl that sounds amazing (right up until the point where one of the fifty pieces of graveyard hate hit your betrayal, but, you know, it's something)
Nah, i saw a deck list of 97 wastes, approach of the second sun and a spell that puts target spell into your hand so you can cast that approach of the second sun again to win the game
I have a codie deck, but it's built around Rampage of the Clans. Get a bunch of artifacts/enchantments, and cast any 5 mana instant/sorcery to cast rampage to turn them all into 3/3. The downside is that you can't play any other instant/sorcery spells with mana value 4 or less because then codie might hit it instead of rampage. Very funny and silly
The wonderful thing about this thing as a commander is that you can literally make a deck with ninety seven lands, approach of the second sun, and narset’s reversal and actually win games.
I've seen it with 60 Dragons Approach spells, into a tibalts trickery, into the mazes end wincon (ten drop green spell that lets you tutor ten lands to play). At worst, it's a T3 codie, T4 respond on end step and win on upkeep. Faster with ramp spells. 🤢
How would that work? Would you just have to hope you draw Approach of the Second Sun and Narset's Reversal? Or does Codie do something that lets you search them out?
I haven't played MTG in years, and one look at "You can't cast permanent spells" my first thought was "This is not a restriction, there's seventeen billion ways to either not need to cast permanents in the first place or to cheat them out of the deck/graveyard, that is no handicap at all that's the cost of doing business with this card" and I'm glad my thoughts lined up with yours
Better yet, combine Cody with that one equipment card from the warhammer set that lets you give it to each of your opponents at the beginning of their turns. Ngl I wanna make a Cody deck that’s based around handing off terrible cards to my opponents lol
@@xanderleadbeater2608 What's next, Hivemind + Enduring Ideal when your opponent isn't playing enchantments? Or Undying Flames, works great as well for this purpose Or frick it, Eternal Dominion, run the most crappiest of permanents in your deck and basically play their deck while they get to play yours, perfectly great ideas
"can't cast permanent spells" Okay but like- if I wanted permanents there are these funny little spells that generate tokens. Or I could drop a Goblinslide before Codie.
Oh, I'm sorry, were you unable to stop the most telegraphed thing in the world from happening? Sucks to be you I guess, I'll just be here with my turn ~5 Avacyn. CEDH Kaalia need not apply as that's just a different deck entirely, and besides, it's CEDH ,you signed up for bullshit.
Unfortunately for Kaalia, she has garnered such a reputation that she is immediately lit up for being revealed as a commander. So any table that puts a “proper” amount of removal in their decks just doesn’t tolerate her. But if you can protect her and cast her on turn 3 you better be killing someone outright
So my codiex deck revolved around looting into, and then recurring from the graveyard 'freed from the reel'. (Or a similar enchantment) That way I could infinitely tap codie, cast one spell, and declare a thousand million billion cascade triggers.... The deck was then able to ensure it never ran out of cards, returning things from grave/exile. This might sound annoying (because it was).... But I love the idea of this book just spewing infinite pieces of paper to win a fight.
I play this deck with almost every instant or sorcery card that is 2 cmc so I can hit my inevitable betrayal and just copy it. And then recur it. I get to play my opponent's fun creatures.
Theres a guy in my play group that had a Codie deck built around Hypergenesis. Those games are the pinnacle of chaos. I remember one game this lead to someone dropping Emrakul, The Promised End turn five. Fun times.
Codie was my very first commander deck i made. Too many good spells to fit into one deck. Not to mention you can just play permanents before casting codie or after he dies (which he will, alot).
Not only are these decks any color they are as much or as little of any color they want since their commander doesn't rely on proper colors on the board and makes the mana you need for most cards anyways
@@mikepower8999sounds like you have a crappy art deck and got slapped around by a green deck I've only seen this kind of hatred when people have trauma from previous decks 😂
I have a Codie brawl deck on MTGA and it’s one of my favorite decks to play, it’s really hard to stop once it gets going and it has so many different win cons that people rarely have a response to all of them.
Codie enjoys building itself in such a way that all effects of the same mana cost are the same. All my 3 drops are wheels. All my 2 drops are removal, etc. The side effect of this is that once I rip the exact thing I need off the top you become public enemy number 1, with a twist; you don’t have blockers to defend yourself with
That's a nice way to build it - I have a budget version essentially built around cloning stuff and other spells that produce tokens. It's super slow and boring though, I kinda need a way to make it more uumphy
Fuck that guy, I am THE Satyr player at my locals and let me tell you, Gallia gets it. Gallia turns 'em sideways. I've NEVER played a game and not had someone say "dang satyrs are fast." Gallia is so fun and so fair that you cant roast her, she just dances on the smoldering embers of the decks that cant keep up. Satyrs are elves that said fuck making Mana, let's get high and mosh to Greensleeves. Gallia comes to party.
Made a silly deck online with Codie based around Dragon's Approach, with the only other two spells in the deck being Tibalt's Trickery and Reshape the Earth. Activate Codie, cast a Dragon's Approach, "cascade" into Trickery countering your own Approach, and hope you dont randomly mill your Reshape the Earth. If you don't, that's the only thing that Trickery can hit because all the other spells in the deck are Dragon's Approach. Get 9 gates and Maze's End out and hope you survive until your next turn to win with Maze's End. It won one game and I've never played it since.
I was playing a game with one of the lotr precons that had Treasure Nabber ("When an oponent taps an artifact for mana gain control of it until the end of your next turn") and one of the other players commander was Codie and he just kept giving it to me so I couldn't play the game it was hilarious
''The Day of the Marmot'' deck step 1) play Dream Devourer step 2) give fortell to two Harmless Offerings step 3) play Codie , Experimental Frenzy , Weathred Runestone , (Pithing Needle if needed and chose Experimental Frenzy) step 4) Double Offer Codie and Experimental Frenzy step 5) pass turn and tell your opponent you have to leave for a one day trip step 6) return next day to just to see him pass his turn step 7) repeat step 6 and 7 for any amount of times
The most fun I ever had with Codie was when an opponent took control of him without reading the very first line of text on the card and proceeded to lock themselves out of the rest of the game.
my codie deck I use for brawl on mtg arena is based around "cascading" into role reversal on turn 4 because its the only instant/sorcery in the deck below 4 mana and only two cost more than 4. after I trade your best thing for codie I return everything to your hand and tutor up jin gitaxias, progress tyrant.
Thoughts on Veyran, Voice of Duality? I feel like while it can be generic izzet spellslinger shenantgains, the idea of "i'm going to make an absolutely mess of the stack by doubling triggers" is a lot funnier. and also what I'm trying to work on now. I will copy *all* of the spells, and it will take at least 10 minutes for me to resolve the stack
Why is my first thought that I'd just play this THEN immediately gift it with Harmless Offering/Bazaar Trader/etc. to someone else? As they probably would struggle actually getting that 5 mana + I'd lock down them from permanents until they find a removal.
Id like to say “i’m one of the good ones” and point to my mystical archive & basics only codie commander deck, but i’d be lying if I said most games didn’t end with me regrowthing a demonic tutor to recast second sunrise in timewarp turns.
I Wonder if we have a relatively cheap spell that gives every opponent a copy of target permanent we control? So we do shenanigans while they have to politics their codex off the board first….if we let them.
I've currently got a codie deck which sole purpose is to to play the card restore balance. My play group has dubbed it "the equalizer". So far It hasn't technically won any matches, but seeing everyone's green-heavy decks trying to operate at 3 lands will never stop being funny
I made 2 codie decks on arena. The first isn't fun to play against since it's just board wipes and a few spells that let me reanimated multiple creatures from an opponent's graveyard, while my win condition is approach the second sun. The second deck is just discard and reanimation for any colored good stuff I want. The first deck is slow enough to give people hope. The second is for removing it
A lot of people brewing Codie decks seek to get around the restriction through token generation or theft or Living End + cycling shenanigans. My Codie deck too that restriction to heart. The only permanents in the 99 are lands. It does not make tokens. It does not steal cards. It is a pile of burn, draw, ramp, removal and spell recursion. Playing it makes me feel like a wizard on ecstacy starting a magical fistfight with three other wizards who thought we were having minions do the fighting for us.
the biggest thing about that downside i think is the yugioh floodgate problem. Where its meant to be a symmetrical stax effect but you can just like, do whatever you want then AFTER all that at activate it. And if it becomes too much trouble to be worth blow it up yourself. Basicly just saying with enough removal and a gameplan helped but not reliant on the commander you prob can still play plenty of permanent spells.
STILL need to hear what you think about Nekusar man. He does everything you could ever want him to do. Draws cards, deals damage, is blue. What better card even exists?
I just realized you FLASHED in polymorph or mass polymorph you could not only have the chance to swap for bigger badder creature(s) but you could also protect the Book itself because it is also a creature.
Shitting other people's pants is absolutely a Blue Black strategy
Something about that actually seems very reddish to me...
@@bradsimpson8724 Yeah I was thinking more Rakdos or Gruul
@@TheFlamingDraco Rakdos shits in other peoples pants while Gruul uses shit as improvised ammunition.
I can see that for Rakdos, especially since they love to revel in debauchery
@@deadpancrickets6881 Nah, Rakdos would be throwing shit at other people.
Anyone who says Knowledge isn't Power doesn't probably understand what makes Codie a truly Profane Tutor.
And they also haven't played Theros U/R Scry Matters.
Knowledge is sometimes quite hard to obtain, if you’ll willing, you’l quite possibly will need to push through As Naseum, and peer into abyss a bit even
@Breifcaseguy1 why scry, when I can run all canaries and 1 0 cost spell that let's me cast all those cantrips
Knowledge Pool + Drafna so you can stack the options
Knowledge isn't power, power is power you try knowing something without the means to use it, it's pointless nothing happens around you.
I have to share the ALMOST ALL PERMANENTS lunatic degeneracy that is my friend’s Codie deck. The only non-permanent spell in the deck is Primal Surge. There are mana rocks, sacrifice outlets, and a LOT of HUGE creatures, at least half of which are 11 or more mana. He ramps up, gets a sac outlet on board (or metalwork colossus in his graveyard which lets him sacrifice Codie to play it), makes the Codie mana, sacrifices Codie, spends 11+ mana on a massive chonk-bonk brute the size of your mother, and triggers the ability given to the mana Codie produced, which leads to exactly one sorcery - Primal Surge. His entire deck hits the field. Maelstrom wanderer and others give everything haste. Avacyn makes it all indestructible. Blightsteel Colossus and the Eldrazi titans say hello before your mind melts from the glistening oil showing you the blind eternities. Craterhoof behemoth makes everything so thick that they made an ad for Viagra. Draco is there. It That Betrays laughs in tongues. Every single doomsday creature card in magic arrives like it’s Avengers Endgame but Thanos decided to snap everything. I would hate it if it wasn’t the single most glorious abomination I’ve ever seen a magic deck create.
This deck will give me nightmares and now I NEED to play it.
If you drop a lab man and a draw creature, do you win instantly? Same with Oracle?
@@juter1122that’s the quitter’s way out.
Send list please
That hook ain’t playing
_Can't cast permanents_
_Proceeds to load the deck with every single "take control of X" instant and sorcery you can possibly find_
_Everyone else at the table kindly plays the permanents you can't for you_
That's right, uncle Ricky may not be able to have children but he sure can kidnap everyone who moves into the neighborhood.
My Codie deck used red spells that double/triple the next spell you cast, and Inevitable Betrayal getting free cast from Codie (just cast a 1 cost spell, and it'll find the only 0 cost spell in your deck), together with a bunch of spells to shuffle Inevitable Betrayal back into the deck. Double Double Triple I'm going into each of your decks for 3 creatures of my choice, you have a Blightsteel and a Platinum Angel in here, you deserve this.
@@gatherer818 That sounds amazing. Do you have a decklist for this?
@@gatherer818ngl that sounds amazing (right up until the point where one of the fifty pieces of graveyard hate hit your betrayal, but, you know, it's something)
@@redcoatsrevolt6538i have a decklist specifically for this
Nah, i saw a deck list of 97 wastes, approach of the second sun and a spell that puts target spell into your hand so you can cast that approach of the second sun again to win the game
I have a codie deck, but it's built around Rampage of the Clans. Get a bunch of artifacts/enchantments, and cast any 5 mana instant/sorcery to cast rampage to turn them all into 3/3. The downside is that you can't play any other instant/sorcery spells with mana value 4 or less because then codie might hit it instead of rampage. Very funny and silly
Far more ethical than the players who “gift” Codie
@@maldhound omfg that's how you lose friends bro
@@sammyiel9626 one of the myriad ways
Be a degenerate. Pull out everything. Approach the Second Sun, Serum Powder, Sol Ring, and narsets reversal, the rest lands.
You're welcome lmao
@@maldhoundfractured identity goes hard
The wonderful thing about this thing as a commander is that you can literally make a deck with ninety seven lands, approach of the second sun, and narset’s reversal and actually win games.
I've seen it with 60 Dragons Approach spells, into a tibalts trickery, into the mazes end wincon (ten drop green spell that lets you tutor ten lands to play). At worst, it's a T3 codie, T4 respond on end step and win on upkeep. Faster with ramp spells. 🤢
@@drew-id Disgusting...
How would that work? Would you just have to hope you draw Approach of the Second Sun and Narset's Reversal? Or does Codie do something that lets you search them out?
I haven't played MTG in years, and one look at "You can't cast permanent spells" my first thought was "This is not a restriction, there's seventeen billion ways to either not need to cast permanents in the first place or to cheat them out of the deck/graveyard, that is no handicap at all that's the cost of doing business with this card" and I'm glad my thoughts lined up with yours
You forgot the way to torture someone in a 1 v 1, donate Codie and watch the life drain out of their eyes
Better yet, combine Cody with that one equipment card from the warhammer set that lets you give it to each of your opponents at the beginning of their turns. Ngl I wanna make a Cody deck that’s based around handing off terrible cards to my opponents lol
Assault Suit, and it's a reprint from an old commander precon
Harmless offering...
@@xanderleadbeater2608
This is why I come for the vids but stay for the comments: to know what removal to put in my decks.
@@xanderleadbeater2608 What's next, Hivemind + Enduring Ideal when your opponent isn't playing enchantments?
Or Undying Flames, works great as well for this purpose
Or frick it, Eternal Dominion, run the most crappiest of permanents in your deck and basically play their deck while they get to play yours, perfectly great ideas
"can't cast permanent spells"
Okay but like- if I wanted permanents there are these funny little spells that generate tokens. Or I could drop a Goblinslide before Codie.
Or spells that steal their creatures.
There's a reason certain books aren't allowed in school. Necronomicon, Book of the Dead, Codie...just to name a few.
Necronomicon literally means “book of the dead”
My man just made the best playboy advertisement to ever exist and he did it for free.
Kaalia of the Vast deserves a 10 book essay on how unfair that shit is
Oh, I'm sorry, were you unable to stop the most telegraphed thing in the world from happening? Sucks to be you I guess, I'll just be here with my turn ~5 Avacyn.
CEDH Kaalia need not apply as that's just a different deck entirely, and besides, it's CEDH ,you signed up for bullshit.
I love the days when I thought Kaalia was broken. Awesome
Unfortunately for Kaalia, she has garnered such a reputation that she is immediately lit up for being revealed as a commander. So any table that puts a “proper” amount of removal in their decks just doesn’t tolerate her. But if you can protect her and cast her on turn 3 you better be killing someone outright
Codie can 1000% get it. You see how THICC they are? They got so much back, you don't even know where the front is.
💀🫡
Nevermind that that tap ability reads as potentially any 5 drop in the deck if they have Bring to Light in hand.
So my codiex deck revolved around looting into, and then recurring from the graveyard 'freed from the reel'. (Or a similar enchantment)
That way I could infinitely tap codie, cast one spell, and declare a thousand million billion cascade triggers....
The deck was then able to ensure it never ran out of cards, returning things from grave/exile.
This might sound annoying (because it was).... But I love the idea of this book just spewing infinite pieces of paper to win a fight.
This man is gonna blow up any day now.
It already feels like I did, I appreciate your belief that I’ll get bigger 🙏
In response, fling
My Codie deck is 37 lands and instants/sorceries, since I am a wizard who respects himself and his traditions.
LeVar Burton’s evil understudy killed me dude. I haven’t laughed out loud like that in a while. You can’t disappoint a picture!
This is the personification of
"I'm only using 1% of my power"
Thanks for putting a imagine of using Codie's pages as a fleshlight into my head 🙃
I play this deck with almost every instant or sorcery card that is 2 cmc so I can hit my inevitable betrayal and just copy it. And then recur it. I get to play my opponent's fun creatures.
Ah, I see you are also a Codie player of culture (it's a great strategy. This and Profane Tutor are great "free" cost spells)
May I bring to the table; Codie + fractured identity or true polymorph. You're welcome ladies and gentlemen
Theres a guy in my play group that had a Codie deck built around Hypergenesis. Those games are the pinnacle of chaos. I remember one game this lead to someone dropping Emrakul, The Promised End turn five. Fun times.
Codie was my very first commander deck i made. Too many good spells to fit into one deck. Not to mention you can just play permanents before casting codie or after he dies (which he will, alot).
Thank you for the reading recommendation. I took a look at that playboy magazine you mentioned and the articles are hilarious.
Not only are these decks any color they are as much or as little of any color they want since their commander doesn't rely on proper colors on the board and makes the mana you need for most cards anyways
I took this deck apart some time ago, but that was a ton of fun. Aside from my sliver deck, I think that's the only time I ever played five colours.
As a green player I second this roast
stop whining. it's an artifact, green has plenty of answers to artifacts.
@@mikepower8999sounds like you have a crappy art deck and got slapped around by a green deck I've only seen this kind of hatred when people have trauma from previous decks 😂
😂
As someone who uses this commander to SHIT out Eldrazi’s onto the battlefield at an ungodly pace, all this man speaks is truth
Would you be willing to share a deck list? That sounds interesting.
Look up online "The guide to cheating out creatures" and build yourself a Show and Tell/Tutors deck with things like Pod, Defense of the Heart etc
This would be so mean in a Blim deck. Just giving this to somebody would murder most decks. Unrelated, I have an idea!
I love you Codie but I think it's long past time for Light-Paws to have her day in the sun.
Yup. Shuffle the library the gathering
I wanted to build her but came to my senses after I put together the aura board
i love your energy so much, this time next year 250k you deserve it
Note to self: never touch any playboy magazine in Mald's house
Bold of you to assume they survived
I have a Codie brawl deck on MTGA and it’s one of my favorite decks to play, it’s really hard to stop once it gets going and it has so many different win cons that people rarely have a response to all of them.
Codie enjoys building itself in such a way that all effects of the same mana cost are the same. All my 3 drops are wheels. All my 2 drops are removal, etc.
The side effect of this is that once I rip the exact thing I need off the top you become public enemy number 1, with a twist; you don’t have blockers to defend yourself with
That's a nice way to build it - I have a budget version essentially built around cloning stuff and other spells that produce tokens. It's super slow and boring though, I kinda need a way to make it more uumphy
Day 81 of asking for gallia of the endless dance
As someone in the middle of building a Gallia deck, I concur
If you have to ask for 81 days, I'm pretty sure that's a clear signal that he doesn't want to do it
Fuck that guy, I am THE Satyr player at my locals and let me tell you, Gallia gets it.
Gallia turns 'em sideways.
I've NEVER played a game and not had someone say "dang satyrs are fast."
Gallia is so fun and so fair that you cant roast her, she just dances on the smoldering embers of the decks that cant keep up.
Satyrs are elves that said fuck making Mana, let's get high and mosh to Greensleeves.
Gallia comes to party.
Made a silly deck online with Codie based around Dragon's Approach, with the only other two spells in the deck being Tibalt's Trickery and Reshape the Earth. Activate Codie, cast a Dragon's Approach, "cascade" into Trickery countering your own Approach, and hope you dont randomly mill your Reshape the Earth. If you don't, that's the only thing that Trickery can hit because all the other spells in the deck are Dragon's Approach. Get 9 gates and Maze's End out and hope you survive until your next turn to win with Maze's End.
It won one game and I've never played it since.
I will now scour my library of magic knowledge until I find a car that does the equivalent of shiting your opponents pants
3 things in my cody deck. 1 token engine. 2 boardwipes. 3 lots of ninjas
I was playing a game with one of the lotr precons that had Treasure Nabber ("When an oponent taps an artifact for mana gain control of it until the end of your next turn") and one of the other players commander was Codie and he just kept giving it to me so I couldn't play the game it was hilarious
''The Day of the Marmot'' deck
step 1) play Dream Devourer
step 2) give fortell to two Harmless Offerings
step 3) play Codie , Experimental Frenzy , Weathred Runestone , (Pithing Needle if needed and chose Experimental Frenzy)
step 4) Double Offer Codie and Experimental Frenzy
step 5) pass turn and tell your opponent you have to leave for a one day trip
step 6) return next day to just to see him pass his turn
step 7) repeat step 6 and 7 for any amount of times
I now have a unhealthy fear of this getting pushed on my side of the board while playing my favourite "oops all permenemnts" muldrotha deck xD
The most fun with Codie is giving him to your opponent, "here I got you a free legendary, don't you like it?"
Put this in Jon iriticus
Finally, a worthy spellslinging opponent for Krark the Thumbless!
No. Nobody will ever be good enough to dethrone my thumbless boi ( except maybe orvar )
It’s valid to say that this is one book that you can judge by it’s cover
Very funny card to give to your opponents with harmless offering.
The most fun I ever had with Codie was when an opponent took control of him without reading the very first line of text on the card and proceeded to lock themselves out of the rest of the game.
Tyvar the bellicose leader of the wooden gym!
I remember using this deck, doing a board wipe then getting a buncha tokens from a sorcery for every permanent I dusted 🤣
In brawl dude put this on my field from his...
I was so confused and impressed
My first thought is the use of some spell that either makes a clone you give to each opponent
I love colorless commanders, they’re literally all way to good though
Nothing will beat the absolute FU that is giving this to your opponent and then laughing your ass off as they realize they can't cast anything.
96 wastes deck with Approach of the Second Sun, Narset's Reversal, Serum Powder, and Codie.
Love your work man
my codie deck I use for brawl on mtg arena is based around "cascading" into role reversal on turn 4 because its the only instant/sorcery in the deck below 4 mana and only two cost more than 4. after I trade your best thing for codie I return everything to your hand and tutor up jin gitaxias, progress tyrant.
Be a shame if I had 2 archons of valor's reach out, one for instants, one for sorceries.
Thoughts on Veyran, Voice of Duality? I feel like while it can be generic izzet spellslinger shenantgains, the idea of "i'm going to make an absolutely mess of the stack by doubling triggers" is a lot funnier. and also what I'm trying to work on now. I will copy *all* of the spells, and it will take at least 10 minutes for me to resolve the stack
She's fun. Niblis of frost will make stompy/aggro players hate you and hullbreaker horror will make you lose all your friends.
"I'm going to shit yourself." - Samuel Hayden
Why is my first thought that I'd just play this THEN immediately gift it with Harmless Offering/Bazaar Trader/etc. to someone else? As they probably would struggle actually getting that 5 mana + I'd lock down them from permanents until they find a removal.
Id like to say “i’m one of the good ones” and point to my mystical archive & basics only codie commander deck, but i’d be lying if I said most games didn’t end with me regrowthing a demonic tutor to recast second sunrise in timewarp turns.
Codie is a fun Cycling Living End commander
I just about laughed myself out of this life and into the next.
'Walmart Gambit' had me dying
Someone asked why I didn’t just call it cascade and it was specifically to make that Walmart gambit joke lol
You can do all of that or...
Just give Codie to your opponent and watch them suffering
This deck gets a lot more warcrimey when you start casting fractured identity on your own codie
Asking for Kadena, Slinking sorcerer, because I like to blindfold my opponents
Can I get a shout out to Thantis absolutely laughing in the wake of chaos?
God, I love Codie.
Cast codie on yourself - cast Fractured Identity on your own codie - lose friends
Fractured Identity sounds like an excellent way to make everyone at the table hate you forever.
Indeed yes! Codie + fractured identity is the leading cause of divorce in America
I am once again asking for Zurgo Helmsmasher
I Wonder if we have a relatively cheap spell that gives every opponent a copy of target permanent we control?
So we do shenanigans while they have to politics their codex off the board first….if we let them.
I love Codie with Cycling
We need to hear about Henzie!
If they offer to do something like this, it's a trick... Unless that spell has the 'Epic' keyword
Oh boy.
Reading Painbow.
Lovely.
Oona queen of the fae needs a roast
I've currently got a codie deck which sole purpose is to to play the card restore balance. My play group has dubbed it "the equalizer". So far It hasn't technically won any matches, but seeing everyone's green-heavy decks trying to operate at 3 lands will never stop being funny
I made 2 codie decks on arena. The first isn't fun to play against since it's just board wipes and a few spells that let me reanimated multiple creatures from an opponent's graveyard, while my win condition is approach the second sun.
The second deck is just discard and reanimation for any colored good stuff I want.
The first deck is slow enough to give people hope. The second is for removing it
I love this deck , I end up making copies and giving them to everyone .
A lot of people brewing Codie decks seek to get around the restriction through token generation or theft or Living End + cycling shenanigans.
My Codie deck too that restriction to heart. The only permanents in the 99 are lands. It does not make tokens. It does not steal cards. It is a pile of burn, draw, ramp, removal and spell recursion. Playing it makes me feel like a wizard on ecstacy starting a magical fistfight with three other wizards who thought we were having minions do the fighting for us.
Cast fractured identity on your Codie and watch all your friends disappear
Love it! Codie is my favorite commander
This man is a genius. Walmart Gambit...
the biggest thing about that downside i think is the yugioh floodgate problem. Where its meant to be a symmetrical stax effect but you can just like, do whatever you want then AFTER all that at activate it. And if it becomes too much trouble to be worth blow it up yourself. Basicly just saying with enough removal and a gameplan helped but not reliant on the commander you prob can still play plenty of permanent spells.
My Codie deck doesn’t run permanent spells. We run gates and as many effects that lets me clone steal and kill my openness creatures
I am trying to make a Codie dragon tribal deck
"offers to play you in chess left-handed"? what
That is the classic fake handicap for when adults let you win at things as child
What about my boy Prossh? He's got KOBOLDS!
Rhys the redeemed is an old token doubler that everyone ignores until it's too late should give him a good roast
I do like to throw in some permanents into these decks incase I can get them out beforehand.
One of my friends made a codie hypergenesis deck
STILL need to hear what you think about Nekusar man. He does everything you could ever want him to do. Draws cards, deals damage, is blue. What better card even exists?
I made a Codie deck that just had all the Strixhaven Mystical Archives. it's funny to cast Fractured Identity on Codie
That is both hilarious and evil
That's cruel. I like it
I just realized you FLASHED in polymorph or mass polymorph you could not only have the chance to swap for bigger badder creature(s) but you could also protect the Book itself because it is also a creature.
Wal-Mart Gambit.....🤣🤣🤣
Asking for magus lucea kane
I love my Codie deck. It took 1 game for everyone else to hate it forever.