Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign card art — Art by Ricardo Cavolo · © Wizards of the Coast

Odds and Ends

Bracket 2

SLD — Secret Lair Drop · 2026-09-28

Commander: Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign · Color identity: BUW

Bracket

Power Level

4.6/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

Supported alternate win condition (Approach of the Second Sun) — but it assembles slowly (goldfish ~turn 11, Bracket 2 pace), so it does not floor Bracket 3 on its own
Borderline verdict — close to B3: supported alternate win condition (Approach of the Second Sun) — a real plan the Game-Changer and combo rules don't see
Alternate win condition detected: Approach of the Second Sun — backed by a real support engine in this list
High optimization — score 28/75 (13 interaction spells, 18 card-advantage sources, 1 fast-mana sources) — raises this deck above its hard floor
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 9 Secret Lair Drop decks we analyzed, this is 6th strongest — power 4.6 versus a set average of 5.3. That is about average for the library (4.6 across 174 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Secret Lair Drop decks

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose — Bracket 3, power 6.7
Goblin Storm — Bracket 3, power 6.2
20 Ways to Win — Bracket 3, power 6.2
Everyone's Invited! — Bracket 3, power 6.0
From Cute to Brute — Bracket 2, power 4.9
Raining Cats and Dogs — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Angels: They're Just Like Us but Cooler and with Wings — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Hatsune Miku — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Bedecked Brokers — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Cabaretti Cacophony — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Cavalry Charge — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Corrupting Influence — Bracket 2, power 4.6
Devour for Power — Bracket 2, power 4.6

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Path to Exile Interaction $0.69
Generous Gift Interaction $0.94
Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $23.09

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign
1 Void Winnower
1 Esper Sentinel
1 Reconnaissance
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Weathered Wayfarer
1 Misleading Signpost
1 Breach the Multiverse
1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
1 Shadrix Silverquill
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Sol Ring
1 Aboleth Spawn
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Aeon Engine
1 Aerial Extortionist
1 Aminatou, the Fateshifter
1 Approach of the Second Sun
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Arcane Signet
1 Brainstorm
1 Breena, the Demagogue
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Chaos Wand
1 Claim Jumper
1 Coalition Relic
1 Command Beacon
1 Command Tower
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Contaminated Landscape
1 Dazzling Sphinx
1 Doom Whisperer
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Enigma Sphinx
1 Ethersworn Sphinx
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Exchange of Words
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Extinction Event
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fatespinner
1 Fractured Identity
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Imprisoned in the Moon
1 Inniaz, the Gale Force
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Jeskai Infiltrator
1 Leadership Vacuum
1 Loran of the Third Path
1 Marvo, Deep Operative
1 Master of Predicaments
1 Mirage Mirror
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Mystic Gate
1 Nadir Kraken
1 Oubliette
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Planeswalker's Mischief
1 Ponder
1 Prairie Stream
1 Profane Transfusion
1 Promise of Loyalty
1 Psychic Battle
1 Rapid Hybridization
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Shared Fate
1 Silent Clearing
1 Skyclave Apparition
1 Skyclave Relic
1 Smuggler's Share
1 Soothsaying
1 Space Beleren
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Swift Reconfiguration
1 Talisman of Progress
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Temple of Enlightenment
1 Temple of Silence
1 Terramorphic Expanse
1 Thief of Sanity
1 Time Stop
1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
1 Underground River
1 Vega, the Watcher
1 Venser's Journal
1 Vesuvan Drifter
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
4 Plains
4 Island
4 Swamp

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/OddsAndEnds_SLD.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.