---
name: "Codie, Vociferous Codex"
mana_cost: "{3}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Legendary Artifact Creature — Book Construct"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B", "G", "R", "U", "W"]
keywords: []
set: "STX"
set_name: "Strixhaven: School of Mages"
collector_number: "253"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Daniel Ljunggren"
oracle_id: "67a9357c-4713-4e01-a60d-532bf0dd80b6"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/codie-vociferous-codex-stx"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Codie, Vociferous Codex
- **Mana Cost:** `{3}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Legendary Artifact Creature — Book Construct

## Oracle Text
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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Wizard's Spellbook](/printing/wizards-spellbook-afr.md) — Artifact — Book
2. [Forger's Foundry](/printing/forgers-foundry-otc.md) — Artifact
3. [Magus of the Mind](/printing/magus-of-the-mind-c17.md) — Creature — Human Wizard
4. [Aether Storm](/printing/aether-storm-me2.md) — Enchantment
5. [Great Hall of the Biblioplex](/printing/great-hall-of-the-biblioplex-sos.md) — Land
6. [Omnispell Adept](/printing/omnispell-adept-grn.md) — Creature — Human Wizard

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Strixhaven: School of Mages (STX) #253
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Daniel Ljunggren

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2021-04-16)* 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)* 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)* You exile the cards face up. All players will be able to see them.
- *(2021-04-16)* 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)* 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)* 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.