That’s Odd by DylanLiles

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation battlecruiser strategy commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary goal is to curate the top card of the library using cheap cantrips, scrying engines, and artifacts, then declare attacks with Yennett to cheat game-altering odd-mana spells directly into play. The top-end threats include sweeping board clears like In Garruk's Wake, life total resets like Magister Sphinx, mass reanimation via Rise of the Dark Realms, and annihilator pressure from Pathrazer of Ulamog. Defensively, the deck relies on pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison to deter aggressive creature swarms while setting up its heavy hitters. Because the deck eschews fast mana rocks in favor of high-impact payoffs, it operates at a traditional casual pace, reaching its critical operational window on turn 6 and steadily closing the game through overwhelming combat damage over subsequent turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Aqueous Form
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
• 1 As Foretold
• 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
• 1 Baneful Omen
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blazing Archon
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Brilliant Ultimatum
• 1 Cavalier of Gales
• 1 Chancellor of the Spires
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clone Legion
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Debtors' Knell
• 1 Defiler of Dreams
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fated Return
• 1 Genji Glove
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Grave Betrayal
• 1 Haunted Crossroads
• 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 8 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Magister Sphinx
• 1 Mind's Dilation
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Obelisk of Esper
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Opt
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 8 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Profane Transfusion
• 1 Prognostic Sphinx
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sen Triplets
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
• 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
• 1 The Key to the Vault
• 1 The Seventh Doctor
• 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Vesuvan Drifter
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign