Odds and Ends by Medies

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck control build centered on Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its core strategy revolves around manipulating the top of the library to cheat massive, odd-mana-value spells into play for free whenever Yennett attacks. Supported by repeatable topdeck enablers such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Soothsaying, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter, the deck bypasses high casting costs to deploy devastating bombs like Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse. A secondary suite of minigame and interactive enchantments (Perplexing Chimera, Psychic Battle, Shared Fate) disrupts opponent plans while you develop your board. The deck wins by overwhelming the table through continuous creature combat, heavy attrition locks, or alternate win conditions like Approach of the Second Sun. While resilient in late-game value generation, the deck is vulnerable to targeted removal during Yennett's casting turn due to a lack of cheap haste and protection spells.

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
• 4 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
• 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