Odds and Ends Updgraded
Format: Commander
Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Bracket: 3
DeckCheck Threat Index: 47
Deck overview
This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation strategy that uses Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign to cheat massive odd-cost spells into play for free. The early game focuses on setting up mana ramp via Talismans and setting the top of the library with cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, and Brainstorm. Once Yennett enters the battlefield and attacks, she reveals and casts devastating high-cost odd spells such as Expropriate, Breach the Multiverse, Void Winnower, Portal to Phyrexia, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. A comprehensive interaction suite in blue, white, and black provides tight control over the stack and battlefield, while protective spells like Fierce Guardianship and Teferi's Protection defend the board state. The deck finishes games by locking down opposing resources with Praetors and Eldrazi, then crushing opponents under evasive combat damage.
Decklist (100 cards)
- 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
- 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
- 1 Angel of the Ruins
- 1 Anguished Unmaking
- 1 Arcane Sanctum
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Artisan of Kozilek
- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Breach the Multiverse
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Cavalier of Gales
- 1 Command Beacon
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Dazzling Sphinx
- 1 Doom Whisperer
- 1 Dovin's Veto
- 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
- 1 Enigma Sphinx
- 1 Esper Sentinel
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Expropriate
- 1 Fabled Passage
- 1 Fierce Guardianship
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Generous Gift
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Halimar Depths
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
- 3 Island
- 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
- 1 Magister Sphinx
- 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
- 1 Maze of Ith
- 1 Mithril Coat
- 1 Morphic Pool
- 1 Mother of Runes
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Nexus of Fate
- 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Path to Exile
- 3 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Portal to Phyrexia
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Reconnaissance
- 1 Rhystic Study
- 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
- 1 Rivendell
- 1 Rogue's Passage
- 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
- 1 Scroll Rack
- 1 Sea of Clouds
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
- 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
- 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
- 1 Sol Ring
- 1 Soothsaying
- 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
- 3 Swamp
- 1 Swan Song
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Talisman of Dominance
- 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
- 1 Talisman of Progress
- 1 Teferi's Protection
- 1 Temple of Deceit
- 1 Toxic Deluge
- 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
- 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
- 1 Vault of Champions
- 1 Vega, the Watcher
- 1 Vesuvan Drifter
- 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
- 1 Void Rend
- 1 Void Winnower
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Weathered Wayfarer
- 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign