Codex Shredder
Codex Shredder: Artifact, Commander Legends. Tap: Target player mills a card. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}
- Mana value
- 1
- Type
- Artifact
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Commander Legends (CMR)
- Released
- 2020-11-20
- Collector number
- 304
- Artist
- Jason Felix
- Commander rank
- 2,381 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Mill
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About Codex Shredder
Codex Shredder is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon colourless artifact from Commander Legends (CMR), a draft-focused set released in November 2020. It is collector number 304 in that set, with art by Jason Felix. It costs {1} (one generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Return to Ravnica (2012) to Commander Legends (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.29 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
{T}: Target player mills a card. (They put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.29 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Codex Shredder by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Codex Shredder
Codex Shredder has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #790★ | Rare | 2024 |
| The List (PLST) #RTR-228 | Uncommon | 2020 |
| Return to Ravnica (RTR) #228 | Uncommon | 2012 |
Official rulings
One official ruling applies to Codex Shredder.
- You choose the target of Codex Shredder's last ability before paying its costs, so you can't return Codex Shredder to your hand this way.
Similar cards
Other artifact cards with no colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.