Yennett likes odd things by PizzaPunx

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Esper midrange deck leverages Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign to cheat massive odd-cost spells into play directly from the top of the library. The game plan focuses on deploying early mana rocks and topdeck curators such as Sensei's Divining Top, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Penance. Once Yennett enters on Turn 4, she attacks on Turn 5 to cast devastating high-CMC spells for free, including Void Winnower, Expropriate, Breach the Multiverse, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. The deck pairs this explosive cheat engine with efficient single-target removal, board wipes, and card advantage engines like Rhystic Study and Esper Sentinel. While the deck generates overwhelming board states and asymmetric locks, it relies heavily on Yennett surviving a turn cycle without built-in ward or hexproof, making timing and threat selection crucial for closing games via combat damage over two response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Acquire
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 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 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 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 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 2 Plains
  • 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 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign