Yshtola by user1217234

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control strategy led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana in the early turns, establishing defensive pillowfort enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, and deploying Y'shtola on Turn 4. From there, the deck casts noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to simultaneously drain all opponents, gain life, and trigger end-step card draw. Drawing into force multipliers like Curiosity, Painful Quandary, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, or Phyresis rapidly accelerates the table clock. The deck maintains control over opposing threats through a rich suite of versatile removal, untap counterspells like Rewind, and premier sweepers including Farewell. It closes games through relentless spell-triggered burn, poison counters, or large drain spells like Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleansing Meditation
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thancred Waters
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed