Y'shtola BKT 3 WIP by user2237576

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, turning reactive and proactive noncreature spells into symmetrical burn, lifegain, and substantial card advantage. The deck ramps on turns one through three using efficient mana rocks and early draw engines such as Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, Esper Sentinel, and Mystic Remora. It deploys Y'shtola, Night's Blessed on turn four, immediately unlocking engine velocity. By enchanting Y'shtola with Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Sigil of Sleep, or amplifying her triggers with Delney, Streetwise Lookout and Spark Double, every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater deals 2 to 4 damage to each opponent, gains life, and draws up to three cards. A deep suite of free and efficient interaction, including Deadly Rollick, Snuff Out, Rewind, and Void Rend, controls the table while burning opponents. Secondary attrition pieces like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Talion, the Kindly Lord compound the clock, reliably closing out the game across two response cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed