The Commander
Flying, vigilance, menace
Whenever Yennett attacks, reveal the top card of your library. You may cast it without paying its mana cost if its mana value is odd. If you don't cast it, draw a card.
Guide
Gameplan
Yennett wants to attack early and often, flipping the top of your library to free-cast odd-mana-value bombs while smoothing draws when she whiffs. Build the deck almost entirely around odd-cost cards so virtually every flip is a free spell, then chain into more value, removal, and game-ending payoffs each combat. You win through accumulated card advantage and explosive free casts that snowball into overwhelming board states or combos.
Strengths
- Free-casting odd-cost bombs generates massive, repeatable card and mana advantage each attack.
- Flying, vigilance, and menace make her hard to block and let her swing while staying back on defense.
- Esper colors give access to the best removal, counterspells, tutors, and recursion in the format.
- Top-deck manipulation turns her trigger into a near-guaranteed free spell, not a gamble.
Weaknesses
- Heavily dependent on connecting in combat, so she's vulnerable to removal, fogs, and big blockers before her trigger resolves.
- Deckbuilding constraint of skewing toward odd-cost cards limits some powerful even-cost staples.
- Without library manipulation, flips can whiff into lands or even-cost cards.
- She's a high-value 5-drop that draws removal and forces frequent recasts under commander tax.
Key Cards
- Sensei's Divining Top — Sets up the top card so each Yennett attack reliably free-casts a strong odd-cost spell.
- Brainstorm — Stacks the top of your library to guarantee a powerful odd-mana-value hit on attack.
- Scroll Rack — Bins unwanted cards and loads bombs onto your library top for repeated free casts.
- Whir of Invention — An odd-cost tutor that fetches artifacts and can be free-cast off the trigger itself.
- Expropriate — A backbreaking odd-cost (9) finisher that's devastating when cheated in for free.
- Swiftfoot Boots — Protects Yennett with hexproof and haste so she can attack the turn she lands.
Upgrade Path
Tighten the curve so nearly every nonland card has an odd mana value, then add premium top-of-library control like Sensei's Divining Top, Scroll Rack, and Mystic Speculation to make flips deterministic. Layer in fast mana (Mana Crypt, Sol Ring, Mana Vault) and protection (Lightning Greaves, Teferi's Protection) to land and connect with Yennett sooner. Finish with high-impact odd-cost bombs—Expropriate, Cyclonic Rift, Time Warp—and tutors to ensure each attack ends the game faster.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Free-casting a backbreaking finisher like Expropriate or Torment of Hailfire off the trigger.
- ▸Grinding overwhelming card advantage and closing with evasive commander damage and free bombs.
- ▸Assembling a free-cast combo or Omniscience-enabled chain to take infinite or near-infinite value.
- ▸Beating down with Yennett's flying menace body backed by free removal and counters.
Archetypes
- Cheat-into-play Combo — Free-casting expensive odd-cost spells like Omniscience or big sphinxes accelerates explosive turns.
- Control — Esper colors and free-cast counterspells/removal let you grind the table while Yennett refills your hand.
- Value Midrange — Top-deck manipulation plus free casts builds relentless incremental advantage every combat step.
- Spellslinger — Loading the top with odd-cost instants and sorceries lets you cast them for free off attacks.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BUW), by popularity.
