Odd Sphinx by dirtygerbil444

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 22

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Esper midrange strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its central game plan is to ramp into Yennett by turn 4 or 5, manipulate the top of the library with cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Doom Whisperer, and attack to cheat massive odd-cost spells directly onto the battlefield without paying their mana costs. Payoffs such as Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Breach the Multiverse, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater exert immense pressure, wipe boards, or lock out opposing plays. Because Yennett lacks built-in haste or ward, the deck relies on timing, evasion, and targeted spot removal to clear paths for combat. While vulnerable to early spot removal on Yennett and lacking traditional counterspells, the deck produces overwhelming late-game card and mana disparity when allowed to untap.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Doc Ock's Tentacles
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Ember Island Production
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Memory Trap
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Psychic Battle
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign