Yennett Odds & Ends

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck-manipulation and battlecruiser control strategy commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan revolves around manipulating the top of the library with cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter, then attacking with Yennett to cast massive odd-cost spells for free. These payoffs include game-altering threats like Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. The deck backs up this engine with diverse interactive tools, light stax pieces like Fatespinner, and unique mini-game effects like Exchange of Words and Psychic Battle. Without fast mana or cheap tutors, the deck operates at a measured, fair pace, developing its mana base on turns one through three, casting Yennett on turn four or five, and applying decisive pressure from turn five onward. Once high-impact odd spells establish dominance, the deck closes out the game through combat damage from resilient flying threats and reanimated beaters.

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