Y'Shtola by user1913753

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is an Esper control-drain deck. Its primary plan is to resolve the commander early, then cast a chain of 3+ CMC noncreature spells: each one deals 2 damage to each opponent and gains 2 life. Secondary paths add life-gain multipliers like Sanguine Bond, Vito, and Enduring Tenacity, plus token Wizards from Circle of Power and Transpose, then close with Exsanguinate or a Bolas's Citadel top-deck run. Y'shtola's end-step draw rewards concentrating life loss but is supplemental; Rhystic Study, Narset, Archmage Emeritus, and the Alisaie/Alphinaud pair supply card advantage. There is no hidden commander; every line funnels through Y'shtola's noncreature-spell trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 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 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed