Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
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.
How it works : Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If the revealed card doesn't have an odd mana value or if that card does but you choose not to cast it, you draw a card. Keep in mind that revealing a card doesn't cause it to change zones. This means that the card you draw will be the card you revealed.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as evoke costs. You can, however, pay additional costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, such as that of Tormenting Voice, those must be paid to cast it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell has
in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X if you cast it without paying its mana cost.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If you wish to cast the revealed card without paying its mana cost, you must cast it while Yennett's triggered ability is resolving; you can't cast for free it later in the turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Because all attackers are chosen at once, a spell cast this way can't affect which creatures you can attack with, but it can affect which creatures will be able to block.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign + Liliana Vess + Aminatou, the Fateshifter + Nexus of Fate
- 1Activate Liliana's second loyalty ability by removing two loyalty counters from it, searching your library for Nexus of Fate, shuffling your library and putting Nexus of Fate on top of your library.
- 2If Liliana has less than three loyalty counters remaining, activate Aminatou's second loyalty ability by removing a loyalty counter from it, blinking Liliana.
- 3Otherwise, activate Aminatou's first loyalty ability by putting a loyalty counter on it, drawing Nexus of Fate and putting it back on top of your library.
- 4Proceed to your combat phase, and declare Yennett as an attacker.
- 5Yennett triggers, revealing Nexus of Fate from the top of your library and causing you to cast it without paying its mana cost.
- 6Resolve Nexus of Fate, getting an extra turn after this one and shuffling it into your library.
- 7Repeat each turn.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign + Doomsday + Nexus of Fate + Necropotence
- 1Cast Doomsday by paying
, searching your library and graveyard for Nexus of Fate and four other cards, then exiling the rest of your library and graveyard, putting the aforementioned cards on top of your library with Nexus of Fate being the bottom card, and causing you to lose half your life total, rounded up.
- 2Activate Necropotence four times by paying 4 life, exiling the top four cards of your library.
- 3Declare Yennett as attacker.
- 4Yennett triggers, casting Nexus of Fate from your library without paying its mana cost.
- 5Resolve Nexus of Fate, causing you to take an extra turn after this one and shuffle Nexus of Fate into your library.
- 6Repeat from step 3 each turn.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign + Liliana Vess + Venser, the Sojourner + Nexus of Fate
- 1Activate Liliana's second loyalty ability by removing two loyalty counters from it, searching your library for Nexus of Fate, shuffling your library and putting Nexus of Fate on top of your library.
- 2Activate Venser's first loyalty ability by putting two loyalty counters on it, exiling Liliana until your end step.
- 3Proceed to your combat phase, and declare Yennett as an attacker.
- 4Yennett triggers, revealing Nexus of Fate from the top of your library and causing you to cast it without paying its mana cost.
- 5Resolve Nexus of Fate, getting an extra turn after this one and shuffling it into your library.
- 6At the beginning of your end step, Liliana returns from exile to the battlefield.
- 7Repeat each turn.
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