Odds and Ends - Secret Lair Deck by Exis2R

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and value strategy commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its core plan focuses on accelerating mana in the early turns, manipulating the top of the library with cards like Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Soothsaying, and attacking with Yennett to cast high-cost odd spells for free. These payoffs include game-altering creatures and spells such as Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, and Toxrill, the Corrosive. The deck controls the board using efficient single-target removal like Swords to Plowshares and asymmetric board wipes like Extinction Event. It also incorporates engaging mini-game cards such as Space Beleren, Exchange of Words, and Master of Predicaments. While the deck generates massive mana savings and commanding boards when Yennett connects, it relies heavily on combat damage over several turn cycles and lacks low-cost protection spells, leaving its engine vulnerable to well-timed spot removal.

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