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Codie, Ravenous Codex turns Prepared spells from one-shot effects into repeatable resources, and Seething Song exposes the commander’s highest ceiling. With Codie and Blazing Firesinger assembled, casting Seething Song from its Prepared state produces two copies and ten red mana. That is enough mana to untap Codie with Freed from the Real, reactivate the commander and cast the Prepared ritual again.
The loop needs one more layer because Freed from the Real asks for blue mana while Seething Song only produces red. Mycosynth Lattice or Chromatic Orrery solves that problem by letting the deck spend the generated mana across colors. Once the conversion effect is in play, every pass through the sequence pays for its own untap and recast while leaving additional mana, creating an arbitrarily large pool and repeated Prepared casts.
The combo belongs naturally in Codie rather than being a disconnected five-card trick. The commander already rewards a high density of Prepared spells, so cards such as Studious First-Year, Harmonized Trio and Emeritus of Ideation can supply ramp or cards before the deck finds its finish. Displacer Kitten can reset Prepared cards, while familiar spellslinger payoffs including Storm-Kiln Artist and Archmage Emeritus turn ordinary setup turns into additional resources.
Its weakness is assembly. Codie, Blazing Firesinger, Freed from the Real, a color-conversion permanent and access to the Prepared Seething Song must all survive or resolve in the correct sequence. Removing Codie in response to the activation, destroying the conversion effect or interacting with the ritual can break the chain. Mycosynth Lattice also changes the entire table’s permanents and can create risks beyond the combo itself.
That fragility keeps the interaction from being a generic two-card win, but it establishes a current deckbuilding route for the new commander. Codie can play a normal five-color Prepared value game and use the ritual loop as a high-resource finish rather than making every card in the deck depend on it.
The loop needs one more layer because Freed from the Real asks for blue mana while Seething Song only produces red. Mycosynth Lattice or Chromatic Orrery solves that problem by letting the deck spend the generated mana across colors. Once the conversion effect is in play, every pass through the sequence pays for its own untap and recast while leaving additional mana, creating an arbitrarily large pool and repeated Prepared casts.
The combo belongs naturally in Codie rather than being a disconnected five-card trick. The commander already rewards a high density of Prepared spells, so cards such as Studious First-Year, Harmonized Trio and Emeritus of Ideation can supply ramp or cards before the deck finds its finish. Displacer Kitten can reset Prepared cards, while familiar spellslinger payoffs including Storm-Kiln Artist and Archmage Emeritus turn ordinary setup turns into additional resources.
Its weakness is assembly. Codie, Blazing Firesinger, Freed from the Real, a color-conversion permanent and access to the Prepared Seething Song must all survive or resolve in the correct sequence. Removing Codie in response to the activation, destroying the conversion effect or interacting with the ritual can break the chain. Mycosynth Lattice also changes the entire table’s permanents and can create risks beyond the combo itself.
That fragility keeps the interaction from being a generic two-card win, but it establishes a current deckbuilding route for the new commander. Codie can play a normal five-color Prepared value game and use the ritual loop as a high-resource finish rather than making every card in the deck depend on it.
Original source: New Five-Color Soup Commander Creates Infinite Mana Prepared Combo ↗MTG Rocks