Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign2WUB Legendary Creature — Sphinx {M}
Flying, vigilance, menace
Whenever Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If that card's converted mana cost is odd, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Otherwise draw a card. She talks using riddles her disciples alone can unravel.
3/5
A weaker version of a broken-ass card isn't necessarily weak.
Also, Narset's deckbuilding challenge can make things harder to recover from if Narset starts getting hated out, whereas Yennett's is more about having a slightly unusual curve, so you can still do well even if Yennett never comes out.
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Did people really expect Yawgmoth to be in this deck??
That notion is ridiculous. He was literally the most powerful villain in Magic... and BLACK mana.
Using him as a secondary commander in other colors and not emulating some amount of his true power is like giving us a Blind Seer when asking for an Urza. Why would any of you want that?
Yawgmoth has tons of character that doesn't amount to mono black. He was a geneticist, scientist, skilled leader of the Thran. Black is absolutely his core color, and if we get a mono-B version of him that would be fine, but MaRo has said he sees him as Esper, and I agree.
I've had a Sphinx's Riddle (aka not THAT kind of Sharuum deck) for yyyyyyyyears now, and I now have a more fitting commander for it!
Omg.... i almost cried at the lunch table at work.
I can't tell you how many times I have said exactly the same thing when I reveal that Sharuum id my commander. So very happy with this set. Sure, I won't "optimize" the free plays but at least I take the target off my head.
Legendary Creature — Sphinx {M}
Flying, vigilance, menace
Whenever Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign attacks, reveal the top card of your library. If that card's converted mana cost is odd, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. Otherwise draw a card.
She talks using riddles her disciples alone can unravel.
3/5
Uuugh. That pesky Rosewater and his infernal teasing.
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
—Volrath
A weaker version of a broken-ass card isn't necessarily weak.
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Did he hint at yawgmoth? I would never expect them to make a yawgmoth card even in a supplemental product.
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It is not even a good control commander overall though. At least it should have shroud. A control commander without self protection is meh...
Also, Narset's deckbuilding challenge can make things harder to recover from if Narset starts getting hated out, whereas Yennett's is more about having a slightly unusual curve, so you can still do well even if Yennett never comes out.
I do really like this card a lot tho.
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On phasing:
I've had a "Sphinx's Riddle (aka not THAT kind of Sharuum deck)" (full name) for yyyyyyyyears now, and I now have a more fitting commander for it!
Omg.... i almost cried at the lunch table at work.
Did people really expect Yawgmoth to be in this deck??
That notion is ridiculous. He was literally the most powerful villain in Magic... and BLACK mana.
Using him as a secondary commander in other colors and not emulating some amount of his true power is like giving us a Blind Seer when asking for an Urza. Why would any of you want that?
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Maybe the leopard Sphinges are from Aminatou's home plane (please be Kinshala)?
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I can't tell you how many times I have said exactly the same thing when I reveal that Sharuum id my commander. So very happy with this set. Sure, I won't "optimize" the free plays but at least I take the target off my head.
I agree with you as well Mono Black seems the most senseable to me, but this is were the idea came from.
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