Magic: The Gathering

Codex Shredder

The List RTR-228 • uncommon

Set: The List
Collector number: RTR-228
Rarity: Uncommon
Mana cost: 1 generic mana
Type: Artifact
Colors: Colorless
Artist: Jason Felix
Finish: Foil

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What it's worth

$2.53market price via TCGplayer · Oct 7, 2026$0.76 – $2.53 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

This card serves as a functional utility tool, allowing players to manipulate the library and manage graveyard resources during play. As part of a curated selection of previously printed cards, this uncommon artifact offers a strategic way to filter through a deck or recur essential pieces for future use.

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Card face

What it does

tap: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

5 generic mana, tap, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperNot legal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Codex Shredder was originally printed in the 2013 Magic: The Gathering set Return to Ravnica, a block centered on the iconic city-world of Ravnica and its ten color-coded guilds. The card was designed as a common artifact that reflects the Golgari Swarm’s theme of recycling resources from the graveyard, serving as both a utility tool for milling libraries and a method for retrieving cards from the discard pile.

The card features artwork by Greg Staples, whose illustration captures the gritty, subterranean aesthetic of the Golgari guild through intricate, mechanical decay. It has seen long-term appreciation in various eternal formats, such as Modern and Commander, where its versatility as a low-cost, repeatable effect has made it a staple in control and combo strategies long after its initial release in the Return to Ravnica block.

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Other printings

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About

About Codex Shredder

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