Yennett's Doomsday Scenario by artifactenjoyerqt

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-control strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its primary game plan is to accelerate mana during the first three turns using mana rocks and rituals, deploy Yennett on Turn 4, and begin attacking on Turn 5. By leveraging top-of-library manipulation tools such as Sensei's Divining Top, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Yennett consistently cheats high-impact odd-mana spells onto the battlefield for free. Cheated threats like Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Breach the Multiverse, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite lock down opposing boards and restrict spell casting. Meanwhile, extra-turn sorceries like Temporal Manipulation and Capture of Jingzhou compound combat pressure to close out the game by Turn 8. A compact Doomsday line with Laboratory Maniac provides an alternate finish if combat stalls.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gush
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign