
odds as hell
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign Commander Deck
This deck is an odd-mana-value Yennett build. It stacks the top of the library with expensive odd spells, so each Yennett attack casts something huge for free, and draws a card when it misses. The same free-cast payoff runs through a wider "cast spells you didn't pay for or don't own" theme: steal-and-cast effects against opponents, cascade Sphinxes, and engines that reward casting from anywhere but hand or for less than full cost. A board of evasive Sphinxes and stolen threats finishes the game. How it wins: Yennett and other flyers attack repeatedly to flip free seven- and nine-drops like Approach of the Second Sun, Nexus of Fate extra turns, Void Winnower, Valgavoth and Profane Transfusion, overwhelming the table with combat damage, an Approach double-cast, or a lopsided life swap. Key roles: - Odd haymakers to flip: high odd-mana-value bombs that are clunky to hard-cast but free off Yennett's trigger or cascade (Approach of the Second Sun, Nexus of Fate, Void Winnower) - Top-of-library control: effects that look at, reorder or place the top card so Yennett's reveal hits an odd spell, or that set up a card worth drawing (Sensei's Divining Top, Soothsaying, Brainstorm) - Free-cast payoffs: engines that turn uncast or off-hand spells into card draw or life loss, so every Yennett hit, cascade or stolen card generates extra value (Vega, the Watcher, Ancient Cellarspawn, Aerial Extortionist) - Theft and borrowed spells: combat and activated effects that exile opponents' cards and let the deck cast them, feeding the off-hand payoffs (Thief of Sanity, Dazzling Sphinx, Arvinox, the Mind Flail) - Cascade and extra free casts: other cards that cast spells from library or hand without paying, layering on Yennett's plan (Enigma Sphinx, Ethersworn Sphinx, Marvo, Deep Operative) - Odd-even lock and board resets: Winnower's restriction and odd/even-aware sweepers keep opponents off balance while the deck's odd threats survive or rebuild (Void Winnower, Extinction Event, Promise of Loyalty)
odds as hell decklist
- Approach of the Second Sun
- Breach the Multiverse
- Dream Harvest
- Extinction Event
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Profane Transfusion
- Promise of Loyalty
- Aboleth Spawn
- Aerial Extortionist
- Arvinox, the Mind Flail
- Breena, the Demagogue
- Claim Jumper
- Dazzling Sphinx
- Doom Whisperer
- Enigma Sphinx
- Esper Sentinel
- Ethersworn Sphinx
- Loran of the Third Path
- Marvo, Deep Operative
- Master of Predicaments
- Nadir Kraken
- Prognostic Sphinx
- Shadrix Silverquill
- Skyclave Apparition
- Thief of Sanity
- Toxrill, the Corrosive
- Valgavoth, Terror Eater
- Vega, the Watcher
- Vesuvan Drifter
- Void Winnower
- Weathered Wayfarer
- Aminatou, the Fateshifter
- Brainstorm
- Counterspell
- Dark Ritual
- Nexus of Fate
- Rapid Hybridization
- Swords to Plowshares
- Arcane Signet
- Chaos Wand
- Chromatic Lantern
- Coalition Relic
- Commander's Sphere
- Gilded Lotus
- Lightning Greaves
- Mirage Mirror
- Misleading Signpost
- Sensei's Divining Top
- Sol Ring
- Talisman of Progress
- Venser's Journal
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Black Market
- Imprisoned in the Moon
- Mirrormade
- Monologue Tax
- Phyrexian Arena
- Planeswalker's Mischief
- Psychic Battle
- Reconnaissance
- Smuggler's Share
- Soothsaying
- Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
- Adarkar Wastes
- Arcane Sanctum
- Caves of Koilos
- Command Beacon
- Command Tower
- Contaminated Landscape
- Drowned Catacomb
- Exotic Orchard
- Fabled Passage
- Flooded Strand
- Glacial Fortress
- 4× Island
- Isolated Chapel
- Myriad Landscape
- Mystic Gate
- Path of Ancestry
- 4× Plains
- Prairie Stream
- Reliquary Tower
- Silent Clearing
- Sunken Hollow
- 4× Swamp
- Temple of Deceit
- Temple of Enlightenment
- Temple of Silence
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Underground River
- Ancient Cellarspawn
- Perplexing Chimera
- Fatespinner