Odds and Ends

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper battlecruiser control strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its core game plan revolves around accelerating Yennett into play on Turn 4, stacking or manipulating the top of the library, and swinging on Turn 5 to cast game-altering odd-mana spells for free. The payoff package features devastating haymakers such as Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and Toxrill, the Corrosive, which swing the board heavily in your favor while suffocating opposing development. Top-deck sculptors like Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter ensure Yennett consistently connects with maximum value. While the deck possesses explosive mid-game turns and formidable board control, it lacks infinite combos, meaning it must close games through multi-turn combat pressure. Consequently, it remains vulnerable to well-timed removal on Yennett before its first combat step.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archpriest of Shadows
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign