Odds and Ends by Kuthulun

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper battlecruiser and topdeck manipulation strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan ramps into Yennett by turn four and uses cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Ponder to curate the top of the library. On turn five, Yennett attacks to cheat game-ending odd-mana-value spells directly into play, including Void Winnower, Expropriate, Breach the Multiverse, and massive Eldrazi. While the deck lacks fast zero-mana acceleration and dedicated instant-speed countermagic, its high density of interchangeable odd bombs ensures rapid compounding value once combat begins. Alternate cheat engines like Marvo, Deep Operative and reanimation spells provide solid operational redundancy if the commander is removed. Lethal pressure is applied through overwhelming combat damage and asymmetric locks, closing out games by turn seven.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Ancient Cellarspawn
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Artisan of Kozilek
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Benthic Anomaly
  • 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 Consider
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deceiver of Form
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elminster
  • 1 Emergency Powers
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fated Return
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Halimar Depths
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Twins of Discord
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wondrous Crucible
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign