Yennett likes odd things by burritoboiedh

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper topdeck control and big-mana strategy helmed by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign. The primary game plan accelerates mana through artifacts and rituals to cast Yennett on Turn 3 or 4, uses precise library manipulation to arrange odd-cost haymakers on top of the deck, and triggers Yennett's attack ability on Turn 5 to cast massive spells for free. These payoffs include game-warping stax pieces like Void Winnower, asymmetric board wipes like Toxrill, the Corrosive and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, extra-turn spells such as Expropriate, and massive reanimation via Breach the Multiverse. Strong card advantage engines (Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora) keep resources flowing, while low-cost interaction defends development. If Yennett is suppressed, the deck retains independent paths to victory through hardcast high-end threats or a compact Demonic Consultation and Laboratory Maniac combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aboleth Spawn
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerial Extortionist
  • 1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 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 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reconnaissance
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swift Reconfiguration
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Ur-Sphinx
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vega, the Watcher
  • 1 Venser's Journal
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign