New Untitled Deck by RevenantLoki

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, this Esper control deck blends persistent mill engines, lifedrain attrition, and pillowfort defense into a cohesive multi-angle strategy. Early turns focus on mana development and establishing defensive deterrence through Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Authority of the Consuls. Y'shtola enters on Turn 4 to convert 3+ mana value noncreature spells into incremental burn, lifegain, and steady end-step card advantage. The deck quickly pivots toward table-wide lethality around Turn 6 by pairing mass-mill multipliers like Bruvac the Grandiloquent with kicked Maddening Cacophony, or executing wheel punishers with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Notion Thief. An active Bloodchief Ascension alongside Mindcrank provides a decisive two-card infinite mill-and-drain loop. Backed by 16+ efficient instant-speed answers and turn-lockout protection from Teferi, Time Raveler, the deck efficiently controls the board before closing out games across Turns 6 and 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 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 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Forced Fruition
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hope Estheim
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Krydle of Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mind Grind
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Search for Glory
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphinx's Tutelage
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Tutelage
  • 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed