Odds and Ends by Inguru

Format: Commander

Creator: Inguru

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and cheat deck centered on Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. By combining library manipulation with a heavy curve of odd-mana-value spells, it bypasses high casting costs to cheat game-ending permanents directly onto the battlefield. The early game focuses on deploying fixing, light ramp, and topdeck setup engines such as Sensei's Divining Top and Brainstorm. Once Yennett attacks, she cheats massive threats like Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater into play. These permanents simultaneously dismantle opposing resources and establish an insurmountable combat clock. The deck backs up this strategy with targeted removal, asymmetric wipes like Promise of Loyalty, and soft stax pieces like Fatespinner. While susceptible to targeted removal against Yennett due to low countermagic density, the sheer individual impact of its high-CMC threats provides resilient mid-to-late-game inevitability.

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 Bribery
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Wand
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 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 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 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 Oubliette
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplexing Chimera
  • 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 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign