Y'shtola B3

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck executes a spellslinger control and life-drain strategy led by Yshtola, Nights Blessed. The commander acts as both a card advantage engine and a burn outlet, dealing two damage to each opponent and gaining two life whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value three or greater. You win through cumulative life drain, combining your commanders damage triggers with drain amplifiers like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, and Enduring Tenacity. Overwhelming late-game value from Bolas's Citadel, Curiosity draw loops on damage dealers, or a lethal Exsanguinate seals the victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed