Odds and Ends (Tuned) by Nathoon

Format: Commander

Creator: Nathoon

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign deck is an Esper big-mana cheat archetype that uses topdeck manipulation to cheat high-impact odd-mana spells directly onto the battlefield. Built with an array of library-stacking enablers such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Ponder, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter, the deck aims to ramp smoothly into Yennett on Turn 4 and declare an attack on Turn 5. An attacking Yennett bypasses traditional mana restrictions to deploy devastating threats like Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. While the list includes an incidental Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation pairing, it runs no black tutors, relying on natural draws and cantrips. The strategy heavily leans into combat damage across multiple turn cycles, supported by asymmetric board wipes and disruptive Eldrazi. Its primary vulnerabilities are a lack of countermagic to protect Yennett and reliance on combat connections.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Angelic Chorus
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 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 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign