Yshtola by Roguefell

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control strategy led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan focuses on utilizing low-cost mana rocks to deploy Y'shtola on Turn 3, subsequently triggering her ability by casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater. Each trigger deals 2 damage to each opponent, gains 2 life, and fuels end-step card draw whenever 4 or more life is lost in a turn. In the midgame, the deck multiplies this life disparity with life-drain payoffs like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, and Papalymo Totolymo. A robust suite of countermagic, spot removal, and light stax pieces such as Drannith Magistrate and Teferi, Time Raveler disrupts opposing strategies and protects key phases. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through a large Exsanguinate, storm sequences powered by Ad Nauseam, or infinite mana rock loops with Hullbreaker Horror.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Proft's Eidetic Memory
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 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 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed