Copy of Y'shtola by Cuthuluhoop

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper control-drain deck that wins by grinding value and taxing opponents. Y'shtola draws cards when anyone loses 4 or more life and drains 2 per noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, turning every counterspell and draw spell into damage. The deck layers stax and pillow-fort pieces like Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, Ghostly Prison, and Smothering Tithe to slow the table while assembling a hard lock with Solemnity plus Decree of Silence. Secondary damage comes from Kambal, Bloodchief Ascension, Fandaniel, and Wizard tokens from Transpose and Circle of Power. Hullbreaker Horror provides a flash bounce engine and pairs with Sol Ring for infinite mana into Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absolute Virtue
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Decree of Silence
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Emeritus of Ideation // Ancestral Recall
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
  • 1 The Legend of Yangchen // Avatar Yangchen
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmask
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed