Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign — Commander art

Odds and Ends

Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign Commander Deck

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Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign is an evasive attacker that reveals the top card of the library each time it swings, casting it for free when its mana value is odd and drawing a card otherwise. The main plan is wheels and forced discard: Windfall, Whispering Madness and Jace's Archivist refill every hand, Tinybones forces discards, and Waste Not, Megrim and Geth's Grimoire punish each discard. Smuggler's Share and Teferi's Puzzle Box reward opponents for drawing extra. Yennett's attack trigger and the evasive flyers remain the engine, while cascade Sphinxes and odd-cost control are secondary. How it wins: Discard punishers and evasive attackers like Yennett and Thief of Sanity grind opponents down while the wheels bury them in card advantage, and Approach of the Second Sun plus Windfall wins the game outright. Key roles: - Wheel effects: Make every player discard and redraw so the discard punishers trigger and the table refills, such as Windfall and Jace's Archivist - Forced discard: Make opponents discard on demand, repeatedly, such as Tinybones, Bauble Burglar and Whispering Madness - Discard punishers: Turn each opponent discard into damage, tokens or cards, such as Waste Not and Megrim - Extra-draw rewards: Profit when opponents draw additional cards, such as Smuggler's Share and Teferi's Puzzle Box - Combat-damage payoffs: Turn evasive hits into free spells or stolen cards, such as Thief of Sanity and Dazzling Sphinx

Odds and Ends decklist

  • Swift Reconfiguration
  • Ponder
  • Promise of Loyalty
  • Talisman of Progress
  • Skyclave Apparition
  • Smuggler's Share
  • Path of Ancestry
  • Prairie Stream
  • Thief of Sanity
  • Time Stop
  • Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • Vega, the Watcher
  • Vesuvan Drifter
  • Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 4× Island
  • 4× Plains
  • 4× Swamp
  • Sensei's Divining Top
  • Approach of the Second Sun
  • Extinction Event
  • Claim Jumper
  • Temple of Silence
  • Contaminated Landscape
  • Drowned Catacomb
  • Evolving Wilds
  • Myriad Landscape
  • Mystic Gate
  • Sunken Hollow
  • Reliquary Tower
  • Temple of Deceit
  • Temple of Enlightenment
  • Terramorphic Expanse
  • Underground River
  • Fractured Identity
  • Leadership Vacuum
  • Loran of the Third Path
  • Marvo, Deep Operative
  • Master of Predicaments
  • Oubliette
  • Jeskai Infiltrator
  • Nadir Kraken
  • Glacial Fortress
  • Isolated Chapel
  • Psychic Battle
  • Shared Fate
  • Silent Clearing
  • Skyclave Relic
  • Soothsaying
  • Space Beleren
  • Imprisoned in the Moon
  • Rapid Hybridization
  • Void Winnower
  • Esper Sentinel
  • Weathered Wayfarer
  • Misleading Signpost
  • Aboleth Spawn
  • Aminatou, the Fateshifter
  • Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • Shadrix Silverquill
  • Breach the Multiverse
  • Arcane Signet
  • Sol Ring
  • Aerial Extortionist
  • Reconnaissance
  • Swords to Plowshares
  • Adarkar Wastes
  • Arcane Sanctum
  • Breena, the Demagogue
  • Brainstorm
  • Caves of Koilos
  • Coalition Relic
  • Dazzling Sphinx
  • Doom Whisperer
  • Commander's Sphere
  • Command Beacon
  • Command Tower
  • Enigma Sphinx
  • Ethersworn Sphinx
  • Exotic Orchard
  • Fabled Passage
  • Teferi's Puzzle Box
  • Waste Not
  • Windfall
  • Jace's Archivist
  • Whispering Madness
  • Geth's Grimoire
  • Megrim
  • Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
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