Secret Lair
Secret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends
A 100-card white-blue-black Commander deck for $149.99, on sale September 28, 2026 for a 24-hour window. Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign casts odd-mana-value spells for free, twelve cards carry new foil art by Ricardo Cavolo, and every card is a reprint.
Details as announced by Wizards, checked September 26, 2026. Prices checked September 26, 2026. The deck had not shipped at the time of writing.
The Facts
As with the Hatsune Miku deck before it, the order window is what to plan around. This is not a numbered run that sells out in minutes. Orders are open for 24 hours and every one placed in that window is made, so the only thing you can miss is the window itself. What the timing does decide is when yours arrives: a limited quantity ships straight away, and everything after that is expected in July 2027 in North America and August 2027 in the EU and UK.
What Is in the Box
The deck was designed by Megan Smith of Studio X. Wizards describes the 76 non-foil cards as Planeswalker-stamp reprints, the same stamp used in Mystery Booster 2 and earlier Secret Lair Commander decks, which marks them as this product's printings rather than the originals.
The Ricardo Cavolo Cards
Twelve foil cards, and the whole reason the deck is a Secret Lair rather than an ordinary precon. Cavolo drew the art and also laid out the rules text, so the illustrations run past the frame and into the text box. None of the twelve is renamed: each is exactly the card it has always been, with new art.
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign ↗
The commander · MV 5 · foil $0.56
Void Winnower ↗
MV 9 · foil $27.72
Esper Sentinel ↗
MV 1 · foil $76.45 · the most valuable card in the box
Reconnaissance ↗
MV 1 · foil $5.43
Swords to Plowshares ↗
MV 1 · foil $2.23
Weathered Wayfarer ↗
MV 1 · foil $2.53
Misleading Signpost ↗
MV 3 · $14.04 · no earlier foil, priced non-foil
Breach the Multiverse ↗
MV 7 · foil $10.38
Virtue of Persistence ↗
MV 7 · foil $6.77
Shadrix Silverquill ↗
MV 5 · foil $4.50
Sensei's Divining Top ↗
MV 1 · foil $51.40
Sol Ring ↗
MV 1 · foil $2.11
Prices are the cheapest existing printing in the same finish, not the Cavolo printing, which has no market price yet. Misleading Signpost had no earlier foil printing, so its figure is the cheapest non-foil.
How Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign Works
Commander Spotlight
Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign ↗
A 3/5 flier with vigilance and menace for five mana. Whenever it attacks, reveal the top card of your library: cast it free if its mana value is odd, otherwise draw it.
Yennett attacks, you reveal the top card of your library, and if its mana value is odd you may cast it without paying its mana cost. If you don't cast it, you draw a card. That second half matters more than it looks: the card you draw is the one you revealed, so a land or an even card still ends up in your hand. The trigger never whiffs completely.
If Yennett reveals a land, the trigger is wasted.
A land has mana value 0, which is even, so you can't cast it — but you then draw a card, and that card is the land you revealed. You lose the free spell, not the card.
You have to cast the revealed card while the trigger resolves. You can't hold it and cast it for free later in the turn.
A spell with X in its cost is cast with X as 0 when you cast it without paying its mana cost.
Casting a card this way doesn't let you use an alternative cost such as evoke, but you can pay additional costs such as kicker.
Its color identity is , so the deck is an Esper deck and nothing outside white, blue and black may be in it.
What the Deck Actually Does
The list is built so Yennett's coin flip is barely a coin flip. Of the 62 non-land cards besides Yennett, 57 have an odd mana value. The five even ones are:
With 37 lands, a random top card in a fresh 99-card library is a free spell a little under six times in ten. The deck then stacks the odds further with cards that set up the top of the library: Sensei's Divining Top , Brainstorm , Ponder , Soothsaying and Doom Whisperer , plus Vesuvan Drifter , which lets you look at your top card any time.
Brainstorm ↗
MV 1 · puts two cards back on top · $0.75
Ponder ↗
MV 1 · orders the top three · $1.80
Soothsaying ↗
MV 1 · orders the top X, repeatably · $1.54
Doom Whisperer ↗
MV 5 · surveil 2 for 2 life, as often as you like · $5.78
Vesuvan Drifter ↗
MV 3 · look at your top card any time · $0.31
Aminatou, the Fateshifter ↗
MV 3 · +1 puts a card from your hand on top · $2.74
The payoffs are the expensive odd spells you would rather not pay for: Void Winnower , Ethersworn Sphinx and Profane Transfusion at nine, and Toxrill, the Corrosive , Breach the Multiverse , Enigma Sphinx and Approach of the Second Sun at seven. The two Sphinxes have cascade, so a free one can chain into a second free spell.
Ethersworn Sphinx ↗
MV 9 · cascade · $0.19
Profane Transfusion ↗
MV 9 · $1.46
Toxrill, the Corrosive ↗
MV 7 · $14.65
Enigma Sphinx ↗
MV 7 · cascade · $0.26
Approach of the Second Sun ↗
MV 7 · see below · $6.17
Approach of the Second Sun is worth a sentence of its own. Casting it off Yennett is not from your hand, so it doesn't win on the spot: it goes back into your library seventh from the top and you gain 7 life. But it does count as having cast one, so the next time you draw it and cast it from your hand, you win.
Around that core is a lot of deliberate weirdness — the deck's name is not only about mana values. Psychic Battle , Shared Fate , Exchange of Words , Aeon Engine and Fatespinner are there because they are strange, and a table that has never seen them will need to read them. That makes it a fun deck for a casual pod and a slower one to pilot well than a typical precon.
What the Cards Are Worth
Every figure below is the cheapest existing printing of each card, checked September 26, 2026, with this deck's own printings excluded. That is the pessimistic reading on purpose: it answers what it would cost to go and buy these cards instead of the box.
Either way you count it, the deck is worth about twice its $149.99 price in singles. The catch is how concentrated that is. Esper Sentinel, Sensei's Divining Top and Void Winnower are worth $155.57 as the cheapest foils, more than the whole box costs, and the other 85 cards make up the rest.
Among the 76 non-foil reprints, the most valuable besides Toxrill (pictured above) are:
Is It Worth $149.99?
For most people who want it, yes, which is not something every Secret Lair can say. The details depend on why you are buying.
Buy it if
You want the Ricardo Cavolo cards. This is the only product they are in, and the art — which spills out of the frame and into the text box — is the reason the deck exists.
You want a Commander deck you can play the day it arrives. It is a complete 100-card list built around one clear plan, not a pile of reprints.
You would otherwise buy Esper Sentinel and Sensei's Divining Top anyway. Those two alone come to $95.31 as the cheapest non-foil copies, and $127.85 as the cheapest foils.
Skip it if
You are buying it to flip. A 24-hour window where every order is filled means supply follows demand, which is the condition under which sealed prices tend not to climb.
You want it soon. Beyond a limited first allocation, orders are expected to ship in July 2027 in North America and August 2027 in the EU and UK.
You are counting the value as resale value. Every figure here is what the cheapest existing printing costs. Seventy-six of the cards are Planeswalker-stamped reprints, and there is no guarantee a stamped copy sells for what an original printing does.
Find Out Whether the Odds Pay Off
A deck built on a coin flip is a deck worth keeping score for. Whether Yennett's free spells turn into wins, or just into a lot of interesting turns, only shows up over a run of games.
TurnZero HQ tracks life totals, commander damage and results for the whole pod, and keeps a per-deck record across a season, so you can see what the deck beats, what beats it, and whether your upgrades are helping.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Odds and Ends Secret Lair Commander deck?
A 100-card white-blue-black Commander deck sold direct by Wizards for $149.99, led by Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign and designed by Megan Smith of Studio X. Twelve of the cards are foils with new art by Ricardo Cavolo, twelve are foil borderless basics, and the other 76 are non-foil reprints with the Planeswalker stamp. Every card is a reprint of an existing Magic card.
When can you buy Odds and Ends?
Orders open September 28, 2026 at 9 a.m. PT through the Secret Lair store and close September 29 at 8:59 a.m. PT. Every order placed inside that 24-hour window is fulfilled, so there is no fixed print run to race.
When does Odds and Ends ship?
A limited quantity ships right away. Orders placed after that allocation runs out are expected to ship in July 2027 in North America and August 2027 in the EU and UK.
Who is the artist on the Odds and Ends Secret Lair?
Ricardo Cavolo, a Spanish artist whose style Wizards describes as blending contemporary artwork with traditional techniques. He drew all twelve foil cards and also designed how their rules text is laid out, with the art running out of the frame and into the text box. The other 88 cards use their existing art.
Are any cards renamed in Odds and Ends?
No. Unlike the licensed Secret Lairs, none of the twelve Cavolo cards carries a flavor name. They are ordinary cards with new art and a new layout, and their Oracle text is unchanged.
How does Yennett, Cryptic Sovereign work?
Whenever Yennett attacks, you reveal the top card of your library. If its mana value is odd you may cast it without paying its mana cost; if you don't cast it, you draw a card, and the card you draw is the one you just revealed. So the trigger always gives you something. You have to cast the card while the trigger resolves, and a spell with X in its cost is cast with X as 0.
Is Odds and Ends worth $149.99?
On card value, yes: priced at the cheapest existing printing of each card, the deck comes to $309.93 with everything priced non-foil and $358.59 with the Cavolo cards priced as foils. $155.57 of the foil figure is three cards: Esper Sentinel, Sensei's Divining Top and Void Winnower. It is not a good speculative buy, because the open order window means Wizards prints to demand.
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