YSHPISTOLA by user7602248

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is built around Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, leveraging her ability to deal 2 damage to each opponent and gain 2 life whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, while also drawing cards at end step if a player lost 4 or more life that turn. The primary game plan is to deploy Y'shtola early and then grind out opponents through incremental damage, heavy instant-speed interaction, and card advantage from a dense suite of draw spells and recursion via Emet-Selch of the Third Seat. The deck runs no infinite combos; its primary finisher is Exsanguinate for a massive life drain, supplemented by the repeated trigger damage from Y'shtola and other noncreature spell payoffs. A critical mass of legendary creatures from the FFXIV set all trigger on noncreature spells, providing redundancy and value across multiple axes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
  • 1 Astrologian's Planisphere
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Esper Charm
  • 1 Estinien Varlineau
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Oona's Grace
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Summon: Good King Mog XII
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Thancred Waters
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urianger Augurelt
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed