Card

Codie, Vociferous Codex

Mana cost {3}

Legendary Artifact Creature — Book Construct 1/4

You can't cast permanent spells. {4}, {T}: Add {W}{U}{B}{R}{G}. 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.

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 50 known combos. 11 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · STX · #253
Cheapest printing
€0.16
EDHREC salt
0.48
Color identity
Black, Green, Red, Blue, White

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

50 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you cast a spell “without paying its mana cost,” you can’t choose to cast it for any alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those to cast the spell.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    While you control Codie (as much as anyone can really “control” Codie), you may cast any face of a modal double-faced card that’s an instant or sorcery face, even if the other face is a permanent face.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    A permanent spell is an artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell. You may still play lands and cast instant and sorcery spells. Other effects can still put permanents onto the battlefield.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    The types and mana value of a double-faced card in exile are determined by the characteristics of its front face. The mana value of a split card is the total mana value of both halves of the split card added together.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Codie’s activated ability is a mana ability. It can’t be countered or responded to, and you can activate it while casting a spell. If you do, that spell is “the next spell” you cast this turn.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    The delayed triggered ability created by Codie’s second ability will resolve before the spell that caused it to trigger. That ability will resolve even if the spell is countered or otherwise doesn’t resolve.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    If you exile your entire library without exiling an instant or sorcery card with a lesser mana value, you will randomize the exiled cards and they again become your library, ending the effect. You will not continue to exile and shuffle your library forever.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    The mana value of the spell that caused the ability to trigger is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
  • 2021-04-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    The last card exiled is not cast immediately. You may cast it until the end of the current turn. If you do not cast it, that card will remain in exile.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast