Codex Shredder
Return to Ravnica 228 • uncommon
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Collector number
- 228
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Jason Felix
- Market price
- $0.33
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.
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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Where it came from
Codex Shredder was released in 2012 as part of the Return to Ravnica expansion for Magic: The Gathering. Set on the cityscape plane of Ravnica, the card depicts a mechanical device utilized by the Izzet League, a guild defined by its chaotic pursuit of arcane experimentation and industrial innovation. The card was designed to mirror the Izzet philosophy of combining utility with reckless mill mechanics, allowing players to either subtly manipulate the top of a deck or aggressively discard cards.
The artwork was illustrated by Franz Vohwinkel, a long-time contributor to the game known for his precise, industrial aesthetic. Vohwinkel focused on the tactile, clunky engineering typical of Ravnican technology, emphasizing the shredder as a functional, albeit dangerous, contraption. Upon its release, the card found a niche in various competitive formats, particularly those favoring graveyard-centric strategies or resource control, where its versatility as both a disruptive tool and a recursion engine was well-regarded by players.
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