Y'shtola, Night's Blessed by user8969062

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper control deck that turns every noncreature spell of mana value 3 or greater into a drain, while incidental life loss from opponents triggers card draw at each end step. The primary plan is to stabilize with pillow-fort enchantments, counterspells, and mass removal, then close the game through repeated drain triggers, the Sanguine Bond/Exquisite Blood combo, or a large Exsanguinate. The commander is a value engine rather than a combo piece; the deck can function without her, but she accelerates both card advantage and the life-total race. Hidden synergies include Sygg, River Cutthroat and Queza, Augur of Agonies as additional drain-draw engines, and Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis as a secondary win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Blind Obedience
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cryptic Command
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Final Judgment
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Idyllic Beachfront
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 3 Island
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
• 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
• 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Norn's Annex
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
• 1 Refute
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Tataru Taru
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Temporal Mastery
• 1 The Darkness Crystal
• 1 The Wind Crystal
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed