Y'shtola v1.0 by ubercaffeinated

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 65

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Esper control and life-drain combo strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It leverages early mana acceleration and elite card draw engines like Rhystic Study, The One Ring, and Necropotence to quickly dig through the library. The core game plan focuses on assembling the decisive two-card infinite combo of Exquisite Blood combined with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity. Once both permanents are on the battlefield, any life gain or life loss immediately triggers a self-sustaining loop that drains all three opponents to zero life in the same turn. To ensure smooth execution, the deck runs silence effects like Grand Abolisher and Teferi, Time Raveler, backed by a comprehensive suite of free counterspells and efficient removal. Y'shtola, Night's Blessed provides constant midgame card draw and chip damage, keeping life totals high while steadily assembling the winning pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed