Odds and Ends by foks

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Esper deck is commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and built around topdeck manipulation and big-mana cheating. The deck restricts almost all of its nonland cards to odd mana values, ensuring that Yennett's attack trigger reliably casts high-impact spells for free. Artifacts and enchantments such as Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Penance stack devastating odd-cost haymakers—including Void Winnower, Portal to Phyrexia, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse—onto the top of the library. Once Yennett attacks on Turn 5, these cheated threats dismantle opposing boards and lock out opposing spells. The deck controls the game with efficient spot removal, asymmetric sweepers like In Garruk's Wake, and alternative win conditions such as Approach of the Second Sun or Magister Sphinx. While it lacks countermagic protection, its high density of threats overwhelms opponents across sustained combat turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aboleth Spawn
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aerial Extortionist
• 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Claim Jumper
• 1 Coalition Relic
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Crystal Ball
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exchange of Words
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extinction Event
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fatespinner
• 1 Fractured Identity
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
• 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 4 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Leadership Vacuum
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
• 1 Master of Predicaments
• 1 Mirage Mirror
• 1 Misleading Signpost
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Nadir Kraken
• 1 Oubliette
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Penance
• 4 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Portal to Phyrexia
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Profane Transfusion
• 1 Prognostic Sphinx
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shadrix Silverquill
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Skyclave Apparition
• 1 Skyclave Relic
• 1 Smuggler's Share
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swift Reconfiguration
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Vesuvan Drifter
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Weathered Wayfarer
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign