Y'shtola 2.0

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed helms a slow Esper drain/control deck that converts every noncreature spell into reach and card advantage. The primary plan is to stack life-loss triggers-commander pings, Polluted Bonds, Great Unclean One, Kambal, and Papalymo-while clearing the board with Farewell and Cleansing Nova. The secondary path is a compact infinite life-loss combo using Bloodthirsty Conqueror plus Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, seeded by any life-gain event; Aetherflux Reservoir and Exsanguinate act as backup finishers. Y'shtola's end-step draw rewards accumulated damage, so she works as both a draw engine and a damage source. There is no hidden commander; the 99 supports Esper control and drain synergy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Great Unclean One
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed