Esper Control Krejzi by Hirii

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Esper control deck uses Y'shtola, Night's Blessed to convert noncreature spells into incremental damage, life gain, and steady card advantage. In the early game, the deck establishes mana rocks and defensive enchantments such as Ghostly Prison and Blind Obedience to deter aggressive opponents. Once Y'shtola enters the battlefield, casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater triggers 2 damage to each opponent and gains 2 life, easily meeting the 4-life loss threshold to draw an extra card during the end step. As the game develops, the deck layers damage amplifiers like Sanguine Bond and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to double the impact of every lifegain trigger. Robust instant-speed removal and versatile board wipes keep opposing threats in check until the deck closes the game with massive life-drain spells such as Debt to the Deathless or Exsanguinate.

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 Ash Barrens
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Blind Obedience
• 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crux of Fate
• 1 Cut a Deal
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Final Judgment
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
• 1 Idyllic Beachfront
• 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1 Into the Story
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Krile Baldesion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Negate
• 1 Observed Stasis
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Sphere of Safety
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Summon: Good King Mog XII
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Tataru Taru
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Thancred Waters
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Torrential Gearhulk
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 White Auracite
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed