Odds & Ends Secret Lair by GingerGnome

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and battlecruiser strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan focuses on ramping during the early turns, establishing topdeck control through repeatable filtering artifacts and spells like Sensei's Divining Top, Soothsaying, and Brainstorm, and deploying Yennett on turn 4. Once Yennett attacks on turn 5, her ability cheats game-warping odd-mana spells directly onto the battlefield without paying their costs. These payoffs include asymmetric lock pieces like Void Winnower, recurring sweepers like Toxrill, the Corrosive, and massive reanimation swings like Breach the Multiverse. Supported by interactive removal and odd-cost Sphinx threats, the deck controls the board and applies steady combat pressure to eliminate opponents over multiple turns. While highly explosive when Yennett connects, the deck relies heavily on keeping its commander alive without native haste or dedicated counterspell protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aeon Engine
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jeskai Infiltrator
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nadir Kraken
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Planeswalker's Mischief
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Psychic Battle
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shared Fate
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Space Beleren
  • 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 Time Stop
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign