Y'shtola Control (High Bracket 3) by fortune317

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and attrition build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy revolves around deploying Y'shtola alongside high-potency 3+ CMC noncreature spells and damage-triggered draw engines like Curiosity and Ophidian Eye. Whenever a 3+ CMC noncreature spell is cast, Y'shtola burns every opponent for 2 damage and gains 2 life, which triggers multiple card draws across the table. Backed by a premier suite of free interaction (Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, Deadly Rollick, Snuff Out) and board protection (Clever Concealment, Flare of Fortitude), the deck maintains total tempo control. Opponents are systematically taxed and restricted by Teferi, Time Raveler and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse while life totals steadily diminish. The game finishes around Turn 7 via relentless cast burn, Bloodchief Ascension triggers, or a decisive Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Everett K. Ross, Hapless Attaché
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gogo, Master of Mimicry
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Island
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Loki, Lord of Misrule
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed