Strixhaven Commander: The Tale of Codie's End

Commander / EDH* Zirda, the Dawnwaker

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Creature (42)

• 1x Angel of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Angel of the Ruins
• 1x Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1x Bant Sojourners
• 1x Barkhide Mauler
• 1x Chartooth Cougar
• 1x Curator of Mysteries
• 1x Deadshot Minotaur
• 1x Desert Cerodon
• 1x Drannith Stinger
• 1x Elvish Aberration
• 1x Esper Sojourners
• 1x Eternal Dragon
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Glassdust Hulk
• 1x Granitic Titan
• 1x Greater Sandwurm
• 1x Hollow One
• 1x Horror of the Broken Lands
• 1x Imposing Vantasaur
• 1x Jungle Weaver
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Lava Serpent
• 1x Nimble Obstructionist
• 1x Noble Templar
• 1x Oketra's Attendant
• 1x Pale Recluse
• 1x Primoc Escapee
• 1x Rampaging Hippo
• 1x Ridge Rannet
• 1x Rooting Moloch
• 1x Ruin Grinder
• 1x Scion of Darkness
• 1x Shefet Monitor
• 1x Shoreline Ranger
• 1x Street Wraith
• 1x Striped Riverwinder
• 1x Titanoth Rex
• 1x Twisted Abomination
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Void Beckoner
• 1x Waker of Waves

Land (33)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 4x Forest
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 4x Island
• 1x Ketria Triome
• 4x Mountain
• 4x Plains
• 1x Raugrin Triome
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scattered Groves
• 1x Sheltered Thicket
• 1x Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 4x Swamp
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Instant (15)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Electrodominance
• 1x Fog
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Kaya's Guile
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Opt
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pull from Eternity
• 1x Silence
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Szat's Will
• 1x Valakut Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Zenith Flare

Commander (1)

Companion (1)

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Approach of the Second Sun
• 1x Burst of Speed
• 1x Descend upon the Sinful
• 1x Eerie Ultimatum
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Living End
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Spider Spawning

Artifact (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Zirda, the Dawnwaker

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I have had a bit of a mad scientist moment that I needed to share with somebody. Codie, Vociferous Codex + Living End

This deck runs a ton of creatures with cycling abilities. I never have to cast them, Codie forbids it. I can still discard them to their cycling abilities to draw through the deck to find one of many 1-mana instants. Activate Codie's mana ability, then cast an Opt or something and cascade into Living End to reanimate them all!

The deck also runs Living Death and Eerie Ultimatum to bring them all back, Zenith Flare to deal a ton of damage, and Spider Spawning for spiders. There are also a few wraths, because we need to live to Living End . Its important that these wraths exile creatures, rather than kill them, as it gets them out of our opponents graveyards for when we bring our stuff back. Cards like Merciless Eviction and Descend upon the Sinful are some examples of this. Just in case our opponents are also playing graveyard-based decks, Bojuka Bog and Szat's Will are great for not returning all of our opponent's creatures to play, and Gravepurge to try and prevent this from happening to us. I also have Approach of the Second Sun as a backup win condition as it pairs nicely with our cycling cards, which speed up our draws to get to the second cast of it.

As a Living End player in modern this deck seems really exciting! Its super gimmicky but can be really cool if you can pull it off. If you have any suggestions for things to add or remove, please let me know! Thanks for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoyed! Have a nice day!

Also as a side note, I've started a Youtube Channel! If you have the time, check out "Oddball TCG" in the link below. My dad and I have been opening up old Baseball packs and I've started opening up MTG Packs as well, and I'm working on a video deck tech of this as my first deck tech video! Its something just for fun that my dad and I do, so whatever happens with the channel comes second, but If you do check it out I really appreciate you doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=oddball+tcg

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Codie, Vociferous Codex + Living End
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 1 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 32 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.70
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Oketra's Attendant 3/3 W, Soldier 1/1 W, Spider 1/2 G, Spirit 1/1 WB, Thrull 0/1 B