Y'shtola's Kill Factory by Astrale

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed heads a spells-matter control-combo deck that turns MV3+ noncreature spells into card draw and incidental life-drain while tax enchantments slow the board. The primary finish is the compact empty-library line: Thought Lash exiles the entire library at activation-speed, and Thassa's Oracle wins when it enters. Secondary paths use Peer into the Abyss plus Sheoldred to kill a single opponent, Doomsday Excruciator into Enter the Infinite into Thassa's Oracle, or Laboratory Maniac plus any draw spell. The commander is an engine, not a combo piece; Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is the closest thing to a hidden commander, accelerating the game plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Dissolve
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enter the Infinite
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Paradigm Shift
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Lash
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed