odds and ends by deeyunyun

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and is built around setting up the top of the library to cheat massive, game-ending odd-mana-value spells into play for free. By deploying efficient 2-to-3 CMC mana rocks and topdeck manipulators like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Ponder, and Penance, the deck reliably casts Yennett on Turn 4 and attacks on Turn 5 to trigger devastating bombs such as Breach the Multiverse, Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, Magister Sphinx, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. Supported by efficient interaction including Swords to Plowshares, Dovin's Veto, and Toxic Deluge, the deck suppresses opposing strategies while rapidly closing out the game through overwhelming aerial combat and severe asymmetric locks. When Yennett is contested, backup reanimation engines and big-mana ramp enable hardcasting top-end threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fated Return
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magister Sphinx
  • 1 Maha, Its Feathers Night
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nexus of Fate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penance
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Raffine, Scheming Seer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scholar of the Lost Trove
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sephara, Sky's Blade
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Sphinx of the Final Word
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Summon: Bahamut
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Thryx, the Sudden Storm
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Turbulent Shore
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windreader Sphinx
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign