Scions and Spellcasters by jeffreymackinaw

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper spellslinger/control deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, built around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to trigger her drain (2 damage to each opponent, 2 life gained) and her end-step draw when anyone loses 4+ life in a turn. The deck layers several independent value engines - Monastery Mentor and Shark Typhoon token generation, Archmage Emeritus and Alphinaud Leveilleur draw, and a graveyard-casting package around Emet-Selch of the Third Seat and Baron Helmut Zemo. The primary win is incremental: chip with Y'shtola pings and evasive tokens, then close with a big Exsanguinate or an alpha strike. It plays a patient, grindy game with a dense instant-speed interaction suite and no infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Astrologian's Planisphere
• 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
• 1 Blue Mage's Cane
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commune with Evil
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Cut a Deal
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dreams of Laguna
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Essence Scatter
• 1 Estinien Varlineau
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
• 1 Hydro-Channeler
• 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
• 1 Idyllic Beachfront
• 1 Into the Story
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Krile Baldesion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Lost in the Maze
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Painful Truths
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Pox Plague
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reaper's Scythe
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Reprieve
• 1 Sage's Nouliths
• 1 Shambling Cie'th
• 1 Shark Typhoon
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Tome of Legends
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Undermine
• 1 Unravel
• 1 Urianger Augurelt
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Wander Off
• 1 Xande, Dark Mage
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed