Current Yshtola (copy) by Daldar

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper control-drain deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed that weaponizes noncreature spells to ping the table, pad its life total, and refuel. Every MV 3+ noncreature spell becomes a Shock to each opponent plus 2 life, and any turn where a player loses 4+ life draws a card off the end-step trigger. The primary win is the classic Exquisite Blood loop with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, backed by big Exsanguinate drains, Bolas's Citadel life-casting, and incremental ping attrition from Papalymo Totolymo, Kambal, Consul of Allocation, and Wizard tokens. The deck plays draw-go with a dense counter suite, taxes the table via Grand Arbiter Augustin IV and Propaganda, then closes once the blood loop or a lethal X-spell lands. Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is the central value engine but not a combo piece herself.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baral's Expertise
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 God-Eternal Kefnet
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slaughter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed