Night pt. II by Daegraith

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger and attrition control strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to simultaneously burn all opponents, gain life, and draw cards whenever a player loses four or more life in a turn. A dense suite of two-mana artifacts ensures consistent mana acceleration into a turn-4 commander deployment. From there, the deck controls the board using versatile removal such as Anguished Unmaking, Void Rend, and Deadly Rollick, while deploying persistent life-tax and attrition threats like Liesa, Shroud of Dusk, Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian, and Kambal, Consul of Allocation. Pillowfort elements including Propaganda and Norn's Annex insulate your life buffer against aggressive boards. The deck closes the game around turn 8 through compounding spell-trigger burn, heavy graveyard-scaling damage from Fandaniel, or a decisive Exsanguinate that drains the remaining life totals of all opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Abstruse Appropriation
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterpoint
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Tendrils of Agony
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winternight Stories
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed