Yennett likes odd things by jeskaienjoyer

Format: Commander

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Esper commander deck is led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and revolves around manipulating the top of the library to cheat high-impact, odd-mana-value spells into play for free. The early game focuses on setting up mana ramp and deploying repeatable topdeck arrangers such as Sensei's Divining Top, Penance, Aminatou, the Fateshifter, and Doom Whisperer. On Turn 4 or 5, Yennett is deployed and attacks to cast game-warping bombs, including Void Winnower, Breach the Multiverse, Expropriate, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. These threats establish suffocating asymmetric locks and wipe opposing boards. The deck backs up this strategy with a robust interaction suite, incidental card draw engines, and autonomous late-game backup plans, closing the game through massive combat damage and extra-turn sequences.

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 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Ethersworn Sphinx
  • 1 Exchange of Words
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatespinner
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Loyal Tutor
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Penance
  • 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 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Skyclave Relic
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothsaying
  • 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 Thief of Sanity
  • 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