Yennet Old by SoviasPrime

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper battlecruiser strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its primary game plan uses three-mana artifacts and utility lands to cast Yennett on Turn 4 or 5, then leverages topdeck manipulation to cheat massive odd-mana-value permanents and spells into play on attack. The deck runs a high density of topdeck arrangers such as Brainstorm, Brainstone, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, Crystal Ball, and Doom Whisperer to ensure Yennett always hits game-altering payoffs like Void Winnower, Pathrazer of Ulamog, Hullbreaker Horror, and one-sided board wipes like In Garruk's Wake. While the deck generates massive mana savings and card advantage through Yennett's attack triggers, it relies on creature combat to close out the game over multiple turns. Its interaction and protection suites are broad but mana-heavy, making early sequencing and protecting Yennett essential to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1 Angel of Serenity
• 1 Angelic Arbiter
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Artisan of Kozilek
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Brainstone
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Butcher of Malakir
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Coalition Relic
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crystal Ball
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Diluvian Primordial
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Dream Cache
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Esper Charm
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explorer's Scope
• 1 Future Sight
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Goring Ceratops
• 1 Halimar Depths
• 1 Haunted Crossroads
• 1 Honored Heirloom
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 8 Island
• 1 Letter of Acceptance
• 1 Lorcan, Warlock Collector
• 1 Mana Geode
• 1 Midnight Clock
• 1 Mortuary Mire
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Neutralize
• 1 Oblation
• 1 Overflowing Insight
• 1 Overseer of the Damned
• 1 Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1 Penance
• 1 Plague Wind
• 6 Plains
• 1 Portent
• 1 Prognostic Sphinx
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rush of Knowledge
• 1 Sandstone Oracle
• 1 Saw It Coming
• 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
• 1 Silverquill Campus
• 1 Skyclave Relic
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Sphinx of Uthuun
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1 Thieving Amalgam
• 1 Thriving Heath
• 1 Thriving Isle
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
• 1 Tragic Arrogance
• 1 Ugin's Insight
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Vessel of Endless Rest
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Whispersilk Cloak
• 1 Windreader Sphinx
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
• 1 You Find the Villains' Lair
• 1 Zhalfirin Void