Odds and ends by alplaydoh

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation and control strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early mana rocks on turns 1 through 3, resolving Yennett on turn 4, and utilizing topdeck manipulation tools such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Doom Whisperer to guarantee that Yennett's attack trigger on turn 5 cheats a game-ending, odd-cost threat into play for free. Standout targets include Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse, which impose severe asymmetric resource locks and clear opposing battlefields. The deck backs up this strategy with versatile permanent removal (Swords to Plowshares, Skyclave Apparition) and chaos-inducing political permanents like Perplexing Chimera and Shared Fate. Because it wins through large creature combat over three attack cycles without infinite combos or extra turns, it closes games around turn 8 while relying heavily on Yennett surviving 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
• 3 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
• 1 Perplexing Chimera
• 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