Y'shtola, Night's Blessed; the cat girl fun police! by user3001050

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control-combo strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, blending spellslinger payoffs, asymmetric wheel effects, and life-drain engines. The early game establishes reliable mana acceleration through efficient mana rocks and land cyclers, deploying Y'shtola on Turn 3. The midgame leverages high-impact noncreature spells of mana value 3 or greater, triggering Y'shtola to steadily drain opponents and draw cards on end steps. The deck reaches a critical onset on Turn 5 by deploying Bolas's Citadel or executing Notion Thief combined with wheel effects like Windfall and Echo of Eons, stripping opposing hands while drawing massive card volume. Protected by Teferi, Time Raveler, Silence, and a dense suite of low-cost countermagic, the deck closes the game on Turn 6 through compounding drain from Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Queza, Augur of Agonies, and repeatable spell casts.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Insight Engine
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Summon: Yojimbo
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Master of Time
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vile Consumption
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed