Odds and Ends by reelsurfer

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-control and battlecruiser strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan accelerates mana through artifacts on turns 1-3 to cast Yennett on Turn 4. On Turn 5, Yennett attacks and uses topdeck manipulation tools like Sensei's Divining Top, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Brainstorm to reveal and cheat massive odd-cost bombs into play without paying their mana costs. Key payoffs include Void Winnower, which cuts off even-mana spells and blocks, Toxrill, the Corrosive to wipe enemy boards, and Breach the Multiverse to overwhelm the table with reanimated creatures. While the deck boasts strong asymmetric denial and value generation, its combat-centric finish requires multiple turn rotations to eliminate three opponents. A lack of dedicated counterspells and haste enablers leaves Yennett vulnerable to well-timed removal before her first attack trigger.

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