Secret Lair Chaos 1.1 by Chains96

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign, focusing on setting up the top card of the library to cheat massive odd-cost permanents and spells into play without paying their mana costs. The early game establishes color fixing and mana acceleration through artifacts and catch-up ramp like Claim Jumper and Land Tax. Once Yennett is deployed on Turn 4, cards such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Doom Whisperer manipulate the library to ensure attack triggers hit game-defining odd spells like Void Winnower, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Breach the Multiverse. The deck supports its strategy with efficient 1-mana interaction, stax elements, and an alternate infinite mana win line with Isochron Scepter and Dramatic Reversal. While its top-end threats create crushing resource disparity, the deck remains vulnerable during Yennett's summoning sickness window.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aeon Engine
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blightsteel Colossus
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 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 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enigma Sphinx
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Fractured Identity
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Leadership Vacuum
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
  • 1 Master of Predicaments
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Omen Machine
  • 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 Relic
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 1 Space Beleren
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Time Stop
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vesuvan Drifter
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign