Yennett's Doomsday Scenario by artifactenjoyerqt

Format: Commander

Creator: artifactenjoyerqt

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper battlecruiser/control build commanded by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. Its core strategy revolves around setting up the top of the library with cards like Brainstorm, Sensei's Divining Top, and Aminatou, the Fateshifter to cheat massive, odd-costed spells directly into play when Yennett attacks. Game-ending bombs such as Expropriate, Breach the Multiverse, Void Winnower, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite provide heavy board control, asymmetric stax, and extra turns. Early game acceleration and tax engines like Esper Sentinel, Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, and Smothering Tithe smooth out mana and card advantage, while an auxiliary win condition exists in Laboratory Maniac paired with Doomsday or Demonic Consultation. The deck reliably assembles its commander on Turn 4 and attacks on Turn 5, pressuring the table over 2 response cycles to close games around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gush
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Step Through
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign