Yennett likes odd things by artifactboiii

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Piloted by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign, this Esper control deck manipulates the top of the library to cheat massive, odd-mana-value game-ending spells directly onto the battlefield for free. The early game focuses on establishing mana velocity through low-cost artifacts while setting up top-deck manipulation engines like Sensei's Divining Top, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Penance. By Turn 4, the deck deploys Yennett, advancing to critical onset on Turn 5 by declaring combat and revealing colossal odd-cost payoffs such as Void Winnower, Expropriate, Breach the Multiverse, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. Powerful tax and draw engines like Rhystic Study and Esper Sentinel maintain resource dominance and slow down opponents. While vulnerable to removal during the turn Yennett awaits combat without haste, landing any of the signature high-cost threats quickly suffocates opposing lines and powers a decisive combat victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign