Yennet by Dauth95

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and cheat deck commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its primary strategy revolves around using top-deck manipulation tools—such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter—to place high-impact, odd-mana-value spells on top of the library. When Yennett attacks, it casts these spells for free, circumventing immense mana costs to deploy oppressive threats like Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Expropriate as early as Turn 5. The rest of the list supports this game plan with mana rocks to cast Yennett on curve, targeted interaction to disrupt faster decks, and asymmetric tax pieces like Static Orb and Deafening Silence that Yennett naturally plays around. While formidable once an engine stick on board, the deck's primary bottleneck is its reliance on Yennett surviving to attack and a vulnerability to well-timed spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aboleth Spawn
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Deafening Silence
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expropriate
• 1 Fatespinner
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Fractured Identity
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 4 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
• 1 Mind's Dilation
• 1 Mirrormade
• 1 Misleading Signpost
• 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1 Mother of Runes
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Otherworldly Gaze
• 1 Oubliette
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perplexing Chimera
• 4 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Profane Transfusion
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Shadrix Silverquill
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Sphere of Safety
• 1 Static Orb
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Vesuvan Drifter
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Weathered Wayfarer
• 1 Worst Fears
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign