Odds and ends by Justinzonfire

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and battlecruiser strategy built around Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its core engine leverages topdeck manipulation to cheat game-ending odd-mana spells onto the battlefield for free whenever Yennett attacks. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with 2-mana artifacts and curating the top cards of the library using cards like Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter. On turn 4, Yennett enters the battlefield and swings on turn 5 to deploy devastating haymakers such as Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, In Garruk's Wake, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. These massive permanents apply severe asymmetric lockouts, clear opposing boards, and generate overwhelming creature presence. The deck closes games around turn 7 through decisive airborne and unblockable combat damage, supported by backup win conditions like Approach of the Second Sun and an arsenal of flexible Esper removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aboleth Spawn
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aerial Extortionist
• 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1 Approach of the Second Sun
• 1 Aqueous Form
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Blatant Thievery
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Brainsurge
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Claim Jumper
• 1 Coalition Relic
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Dakkon, Shadow Slayer
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Dream Harvest
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enigma Thief
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extinction Event
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 In Garruk's Wake
• 4 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lavaspur Boots
• 1 Lich's Relic
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Oubliette
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Perplexing Chimera
• 4 Plains
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Promise of Loyalty
• 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
• 1 Skyclave Relic
• 1 Smuggler's Share
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Enlightenment
• 1 Temple of Silence
• 1 The Ur-Sphinx
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Turbulent Moor
• 1 Turbulent Shore
• 1 Turbulent Wetlands
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
• 1 Vesuvan Drifter
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Weathered Wayfarer
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign