Odds and Ends by user3349569

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper battlecruiser and topdeck-manipulation deck commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan revolves around accelerating mana on the early turns, manipulating the top card of the library using cards like Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and casting Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign on turn 4. On turn 5, Yennett attacks to cheat massive odd-mana-value spells into play for free. The deck leverages high-impact bombs such as Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, In Garruk's Wake, and Toxrill, the Corrosive to establish dominating board presence and cripple opponents. Combat safety is reinforced through Reconnaissance and evasive keywords. While the deck boasts immense late-game value and devastating spell velocity, it relies heavily on combat steps, lacks cheap protective counterspells, and experiences significant tempo loss if the commander is removed before attacking.

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 Blazing Archon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 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 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 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 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 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 Sphinx Ambassador
  • 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 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 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign