Yennett likes odd things by artifactboiii

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper big-mana cheat strategy commander deck led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The core game plan is to accelerate mana on the first two turns, cast Yennett on Turn 4, and use low-cost library manipulation to place game-ending odd-mana spells on top of the library. On Turn 5, Yennett attacks to immediately cast massive spells for free, bypassing their heavy casting costs. Payoffs include devastating extra-turn spells like Expropriate, asymmetric locks such as Void Winnower and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, and game-shifting reanimation like Breach the Multiverse. While building toward this setup, the deck slows down faster opponents with efficient 1-mana removal and asymmetrical tax pieces like Fatespinner, Narset, Parter of Veils, and Vexing Bauble. Once an overwhelming board presence or casting lock is established, the deck rapidly closes out the game through large evasive combat attacks across two turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign