Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign by SomethingNormaI

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck uses Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign as a high-impact mana engine to cheat massive odd-cost threats directly onto the battlefield. Early turns focus on mana acceleration and setting the top card of the library using tools like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Mystical Tutor. Once Yennett attacks, you reveal and cast game-ending spells such as Void Winnower, Portal to Phyrexia, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, and Breach the Multiverse for free. You close out the game through overwhelming combat damage from giant creatures, asymmetric board wipes like In Garruk's Wake, and disruptive lock pieces that leave opponents completely unable to defend.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dream Cache
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Mana Geode
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Obelisk of Esper
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Quantum Riddler
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign