Odds and Ends by user8512006

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This Esper control deck leverages Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign to cheat devastating, high-mana-value odd spells directly into play ahead of curve. Supported by a robust mana base of artifact rocks and fast mana, the deck consistently deploys Yennett on Turn 3. Precise topdeck sculptors like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Scroll Rack, and Lim-Dûl's Vault ensure that Yennett's Turn 4 attack trigger immediately casts game-warping payloads such as Void Winnower, Portal to Phyrexia, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Breach the Multiverse. Beyond its primary cheat engine, the list functions as a potent control and stax powerhouse. A suite of efficient, free, and uncounterable interaction (Force of Negation, Pact of Negation, Deadly Rollick, Dovin's Veto) pairs with asymmetric locks like Teferi, Time Raveler, Archon of Emeria, and Grand Abolisher to shut down opposing interaction. Independent reanimation backup lines via Entomb and Reanimate ensure the deck maintains crushing board dominance and closes out games swiftly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Fortune Teller's Talent
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign