odds and ends by trogdor19

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and cheat deck led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary strategy focuses on ramping out Yennett by turn 4, using dedicated topdeck manipulation tools such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter to arrange expensive odd-mana-value cards on top of the library. On turn 5, Yennett attacks to freely cast devastating haymakers including Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. The deck backs this proactive plan with robust interaction, utilizing zero-mana counterspells like Force of Will and Pact of Negation to safeguard Yennett while tapping out. If Yennett is answered, the deck functions as an Esper control shell capable of hardcasting threats, wiping boards with Cyclonic Rift, or winning with Approach of the Second Sun.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 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 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Claim Jumper
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dazzling Sphinx
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Transfusion
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign