This Yennett deck is essentially a lovechild of all my favorite spells, that 'oddly enough' happen to be odd CMC. I scry, steal, and recur things from my graveyard w/ a decent amount of two card synergies throughout.
The whole goal is to cheat out high CMC cards w/ the commander's attack trigger, perhaps copy said trigger w/
Strionic Resonator
, which may seem a bit weak on its own, but did I mention I can see the future?
Aminatou, the Fateshifter
,
Penance
or a simple scry
Prognostic Sphinx
among many other options ensure I am always getting to cast something for free. The biggest issue is to many lands cluttering up the top of my library,
Explorer's Scope
or if you want
Druidic Satchel
can handle it or you can nuke the situation with
Mana Severance
if you so desire, a dangerous but fruitful card. With my current set up, I only miss on yenette's triggers a small amount and those are mostly when I am using
Strionic Resonator
or
Helm of the Host
and ripping things off the top of my library farther than I can see the future.
Synergies:
gravebetrayal with
Sheoldred, Whispering One
or any other destroy spell. Go snag a
Debtors' Knell
and start returning things from anywhere, or reanimate them with
Beacon of Unrest
. Don't enjoy playing w/ the dead? then just steal some things with cards like
Blatant Thievery
,
Corrupted Conscience
, or
Mind's Dilation
. Set up your combos with
Final Parting
fetching a debtors' knell + sheoldred, the whispering one, ensuring there is always something to reanimate w/
Debtors' Knell
. Want to be really evil? Omen Machine + Void Winnower
especially when you have a
Future Sight
in play. crystall ball + long-term plans means search for something, scry two to bottom, swing w/ yenette and cast what you searched for or slow roll it by not scrying, yenette trigger + draw for turn + another yenette trigger means you will cast it regardless or use any host of awesome scrys, have I mentioned
Prognostic Sphinx
.
Think Tank
is a real MVP, it will get land out of my deck and set up
Debtors' Knell
or Sheoldred, the Whispering One. aminatour, the fateshifter is this deck's subcommander due to setting up my top library, but it works well with blinking a few cards like
Eyes Everywhere
which will let me steal things and then get my
Eyes Everywhere
back w/ a blink, talk about blinking:
Magister Sphinx
doesn't play around.
Penance
and
Psychic Battle
is wonderful, I will
Penance
a high CMC card ontop of my library and not let anybody choose what is being targeted, which is one of my favorite things ever. While its not a combo,
Sphinx Ambassador
or
Lord of the Void
or
Mind's Dilation
or
Grave Betrayal
or a host of
Persuasion
type effects all work wonders to populate my field and are truly so much fun to play.
CMC MATTERS:
Psychic Battle
Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
-soon to come.
Baneful Omen
Sorin, Grim Nemesis
Twilight Prophet
BEST CASE SCENARIO USAGE:
Trigger
Twilight Prophet
during your upkeep,
Sorin, Grim Nemesis
during mainphase, and
Baneful Omen
during endstep, subsequently setting up your
Twilight Prophet
upkeep trigger. Stack these triggers with cards like aminatou, fateshifter,
Penance
or some simple cantrips like
Brainstorm
or
Dream Cache
. Best case possible, emrakuel, the promised end deals 39 damage between upkeep-mainphase-endstep triggers, or more likely, dealing 15 damage to each player with a simple 5 CMC spell.
Doomsday
CMC combo: While not perfect, it has finished many a game quickly but yenette should be able to attack or else this will take a lot more mana.
You will need one of the following: a
Strionic Resonator
, a CMC matters card to deal more damage, or a way to draw a single card. If you can do any of these conditions, or a Future Sight + Magus of the Future
to cast the things we leave on top. If one of these things exist then go ahead and cast
Doomsday
. Note: these are just some of the conditions to pull off the doomsday combo, other version are more convoluted and I don't want to type them out.
Doomsday leaving the cards in your library top to bottom:
Baneful Omen
Emrakul, the Promised End
(my highest CMC card) and then literally anything else. If you need to draw a card to make this work then put a
Strionic Resonator
on top of the library before
Baneful Omen
and then draw and cast it. Yenette gets her attack trigger casting
Baneful Omen
, move to end step and use
Strionic Resonator
on
Baneful Omen
's trigger revealing
Emrakul, the Promised End
and hitting everyone but you for 26 all because of your commander and
Doomsday
. If you have other CMC matters cards out you can put an 11 CMC card behind emrakul and hit everyone for 24 instead.
The deck is a bit slow to build up, so a nice amount of pillow-fort has been included to buy some time, along w/ just straight up stealing their creatures. In the beginning, it is intended to play two large CMC spells a turn, once w/ yenette, one w/ my own mana. Slowly building this up with
Strionic Resonator
,
Helm of the Host
or slowing others down wit my favorite card in this deck:
Omen Machine
; I know what exactly what is on top of my library and will scry until I get what I want, can yennett's opponents say the same?
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Artisan of Kozilek
- High CMC for my CMC matters theme, big body and annihilator 2 coupled with his ETB trigger I have fallen in love with this card. The few creatures I do have a large threats, thus I really love my graveyard recursion and this fella is firing on all cylinders in this deck.
Explorer's Scope
oh my goodness, resolve it's trigger prior to yenette to ensure quality top decking for yenette's trigger, low CMC, low equip cost, ramp, and utterly awesome considering that yenette will attack each turn if I can help it.
Elbrus, the Binding Blade
frankly it is a wincon in this deck providing high CMC for CMC matters and a super low equip cost. Combine this with yenette's evasion means it will flip and I will start shooting opponent's off. The last honorable mention is
Serum Powder
this is a dedicated scry deck that boast the ability to see the future, why can't this be true of my pregame actions.. this card is fun, unique, and on theme.
I lied, this card just deserves its own section, again.
Psychic Battle
is so awesome in a top decking, scryball, CMC matters deck. equipment targets, removal spell targets, auras, are all things that this card can completely disrupt and does so very frequently. Note that my topdeck doesn't change when
Psychic Battle
's resolve, allowing me to disrupt everyone until I draw it....then I will put it back on top of my library at my end step to hit everyone with
Baneful Omen
's trigger and continue to disrupt them.
CONCERNS: Lack of protection for Yennett, I am likely to add some boots for her. Also some counterspells to avoid the inevitable
Cyclonic Rift
when an opponent is facing down an army of flyers and eldrazi. Seriously though, I am so tired of lands, so much so that cards like
Trench Gorger
or
Sadistic Sacrament
are becoming quite tempting to play come mid to late game targeting myself. On that note, I can't recall the last time I missed a land drop unless I used
Mana Severance
and even then, I usually have some in hand, to compensate for this I have been slowly removing lands and play testing, 35 seems to be a sweet spot. Another concern is my 3 CMC mana rocks, I am a hardcore 2 CMC mana rock type of person, but if I knew an even cost mana rock was ontop of my library and yennett is out, it is likely I would use resources to put it on the botto, so in the end it appears to save me mana to use the 3 CMC rocks over 2 CMC rocks, more testing may change this outlook.
BUDGET CONSIDERATIONS: Change the mana base, these are just cards that I have gathered over time, though I suggest you opt for the scry lands. A tapped land is better than getting a land on yenette's trigger. ulamog and emrakul are really awesome but not nec. You can save money by choosing other high CMC cards, go nuts and run
Draco
. Regarding
Scroll Rack
and sensei's diving top I do highly suggest you just proxy them if you can't afford them as they are integral parts of this top deck matters deck though if you refuse you could run search cards that place cards ontop of the library and achieve similar results.
All in all, this deck is literally just a potlock of my favorite spells that are too high CMC to play in bulk within a normal deck but I have found high levels of success, I hope you too enjoy divining the future. Be warned, you will perhaps feel bad ripping a turn 5 emra-cruel, or masgister sphinx off the top, but you can just feign ignorance of your top deck because there is "noooo way" you would ever know whats on top of your library, even if you put it there yourself.
W/ Mercury in retrograde and the stars aligned just so, your opponent's should expect Eldrazi in their future.
Forever cryptic,
-The Diviner
