Yennett, Odds and Ends Deck by MauledSirens

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation strategy helmed by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign, designed to leverage an odd-mana curve distribution to cheat massive game-ending threats into play. The game plan focuses on deploying early mana rocks and topdeck sculptors such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter to prepare the library. On turn 4 or 5, Yennett enters the battlefield and attacks, triggering its ability to cast high-mana odd spells like Breach the Multiverse, Void Winnower, and Toxrill, the Corrosive without paying their mana costs. While the deck lacks fast combo finishes, it establishes commanding board presence and severe asymmetric disruption through combat damage, creature theft, and board control. The deck is vulnerable to targeted removal during Yennett's summoning sickness window and lacks cheap stack interaction, but it generates steady value and board pressure when Yennett connects.

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