Odds and Ends

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation control strategy commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan revolves around curating the top card of the library using efficient cantrips, scry effects, and planeswalkers like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter. Once Yennett attacks, it cheats massive odd-mana-value permanents and spells into play for free. The payoff suite features devastating asymmetric game-changers such as Void Winnower, Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse, alongside one-sided board wipes like In Garruk's Wake and Plague Wind. Backed by a sturdy suite of spot removal, counterspells, and sweepers, the deck controls opposing development until its heavy flying threats and stax pieces overwhelm the table through progressive combat damage.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cataclysmic Gearhulk
  • 1 Cavalier of Gales
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chancellor of the Annex
  • 1 Clone Legion
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Obscura Charm
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Terminus
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Trinket Mage
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign