Yennett's Doomsday Scenario by artifactenjoyerqt

Format: Commander

Creator: artifactenjoyerqt

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-cheat strategy led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan accelerates into Yennett on Turn 4, then attacks on Turn 5 to cast high-impact odd-mana spells directly from the top of the library without paying their mana costs. The library is stacked with devastating odd-cost haymakers, including Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and extra-turn spells like Expropriate. Topdeck manipulation from cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter ensures consistent hits. While the deck boasts immense late-game scaling and asymmetric stax suppression, it relies heavily on Yennett surviving a full turn cycle without haste, leaving it vulnerable to well-timed spot removal before its first attack trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gush
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign