Odd and Ends by nVrNdRx33

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Esper commander deck is led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and centers on topdeck manipulation to cheat massive odd-mana-value spells into play for free. By establishing on-curve mana rocks across Turns 2 and 3, the deck deploys Yennett on Turn 4. Beginning on Turn 5, Yennett attacks to reveal and immediately cast high-cost spells like Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and The Ur-Sphinx. Tools like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Soothsaying, and Vampiric Tutor ensure high-impact hits on top of the library. Opponents are throttled by asymmetric denial elements including Void Winnower, Fatespinner, and Notion Thief, while evasive Sphinxes and stolen threats dismantle opposing life totals over successive combat steps. While vulnerable to early removal targeting Yennett due to low protective countermagic, the deck features strong secondary threats like Tivit, Seller of Secrets and Doom Whisperer to sustain pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 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 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Prognostic Sphinx
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Serum Sovereign
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 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 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Tivit, Seller of Secrets
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weather Maker
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign