Drain Gang by Cherubael

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control build led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy focuses on deploying three-mana acceleration artifacts in the early turns, establishing the commander on turn 4, and utilizing a dense suite of noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater. Each qualifying spell triggers Y'shtola to drain 2 life from every opponent while buffering the pilot's life total by 2. By leveraging utility counterspells such as Rewind and Render Silent, the deck controls opposing threats while simultaneously advancing its own clock. Long-term victory is secured through compounding damage doubling from Wizard's Staff, mass card advantage from Curiosity, direct life loss via Sanguine Bond, and wide evasive token swarms generated by Shark Typhoon and Monastery Mentor.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Bane's Contingency
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Behold the Multiverse
• 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
• 1 Brush Off
• 1 Call to Mind
• 1 Chaos Wand
• 1 Cloud Key
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Counterpoint
• 1 Crude Bent Blade
• 1 Crushing Disappointment
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Dissipate
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Eaten Alive
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Epicure of Blood
• 1 Ertai's Scorn
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faith's Fetters
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Foot Headquarters
• 1 Forum of Amity
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gates of Istfell
• 1 Give In to Violence
• 1 Gnashing of Teeth
• 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
• 1 Honored Heirloom
• 1 Hour of Defeat
• 1 Inkshield
• 9 Island
• 1 Kabira Crossroads
• 1 Karn's Temporal Sundering
• 1 Leech Collector // Bloodletting
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Makeshift Binding
• 1 March of Swirling Mist
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Murky Sewer
• 1 Murmuring Mystic
• 1 Network Terminal
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Perplex
• 5 Plains
• 1 Quick Study
• 1 Quistis Trepe
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Render Silent
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Saw It Coming
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Sejiri Refuge
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Shinra Reinforcements
• 1 Skybridge Towers
• 1 Slip Out the Back
• 1 Soul Search
• 1 Surveillance Room
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tranquil Cove
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Uncharted Haven
• 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Wave Goodbye
• 1 Whirlwind Denial
• 1 Wizard's Staff
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
• 1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog
• 1 Zombify