Odds & Ends by TheArchitect

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign deck focuses on topdeck manipulation, high-cost odd-mana-value spells, and interactive minigame mechanics. The game plan centers on ramping into Yennett by Turn 4 or 5, organizing the top of the library with tools like Sensei's Divining Top and Brainstorm, and attacking on Turn 6 to cast game-warping odd-cost spells for free. Devastating payoffs such as Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse quickly generate massive board advantages and lock down opponents. Alongside the core odd-mana engine, the deck features quirky disruption and minigame cards like Space Beleren, Exchange of Words, and Master of Predicaments to keep opponents off balance. The deck relies on combat damage from large fliers and Eldrazi to eliminate the table by Turn 9. While the deck possesses explosive tempo swings, its reliance on Yennett surviving combat steps and a lack of cheap countermagic make it vulnerable to well-timed removal.

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