Yennett, Odds and Ends Deck by BuFu

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control build centered on Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary strategy focuses on manipulating the top of the library to cheat massive, odd-mana-value spells into play for free when Yennett attacks. Early turns are dedicated to establishing mana rocks and deploying topdeck-filtering tools such as Sensei's Divining Top, Brainstorm, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter. On turn 4, the deck deploys Yennett, setting up a turn 5 attack trigger that drops game-defining threats like Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, or Toxrill, the Corrosive onto the battlefield. These threats systematically lock out opposing resources and generate overwhelming card and board advantage. Because the deck wins through combat damage rather than infinite combos, it closes games through a multi-turn combat clock supported by asymmetric board wipes and targeted exile removal.

Decklist (95 cards)

• 1 Aboleth Spawn
• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 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 Claim Jumper
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Doom Whisperer
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1 Enigma Sphinx
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expropriate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fatespinner
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Fractured Identity
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Marvo, Deep Operative
• 1 Mystic Gate
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Nexus of Fate
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Portal to Phyrexia
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reconnaissance
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Scheming Symmetry
• 1 Scroll Rack
• 1 Sensei's Divining Top
• 1 Silence
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothsaying
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swift Reconfiguration
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1 Temporal Manipulation
• 1 Temporal Mastery
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
• 1 Void Winnower
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Weathered Wayfarer
• 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign