Y'shtola by user8625053

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, who converts every 3+ mana noncreature spell into a 2-damage drain and 2-life gain, while her end-step trigger draws a card whenever any player loses 4+ life in a turn. The primary game plan is to grind out incremental drain triggers - amplified by Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose - behind a deep interaction suite of counterspells, free spells, and board wipes. Secondary win paths include evasive creatures carrying draw auras (Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, Tandem Lookout), a flipped Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis free-cast turn, and the two extra-turn spells Temporal Mastery and Temporal Extortion to chain more triggers. This is a classic value-control pile: it aims to outlast opponents, refuel through heavy draw, and close with a critical mass of drain triggers rather than a single combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb into Time
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gift of Immortality
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slaughter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Manipulation
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Temporal Mastery
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Whirlwind Denial
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed