New Untitled Deck by user3263755

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper control/pinger deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, built to weaponize life loss and life gain. The primary game plan uses the commander's second ability - dealing 2 damage to each opponent and gaining 2 life whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater - as a repeatable, table-wide drain engine. A deep suite of card draw (Necropotence, Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora) and life-drain amplifiers (Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Orcish Bowmasters, Enduring Tenacity) accelerates the clock. The deck wins through incremental damage, eventually finishing with a large Exsanguinate or a fully charged Bloodchief Ascension. Stax pieces like Drannith Magistrate, Grand Abolisher, and Propaganda slow opponents while the deck assembles its value engine. The commander is the central engine, but the deck has enough redundancy to function at reduced capacity without it.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 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's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed