Yshtola by user3305642

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Esper spellslinger deck is commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, blending noncreature spell velocity with asymmetric life drain, token generation, and controlling interaction. The deck's primary plan establishes early ramp into a Turn 3 or 4 Y'shtola, immediately leveraging a dense suite of 3-CMC noncreature spells—such as Stroke of Midnight, Void Rend, and Circle of Power—to burn each opponent for 2 damage, gain life, and trigger end-step card draw whenever 4 or more life is lost across the table. Cost reducers like Lyse Hext and Valeria Richards, Precocious accelerate multi-spell turns, while secondary burn engines like Papalymo Totolymo and Black Mage's Rod multiply damage output. The deck closes games between Turns 6 and 8 by overwhelming opponents with compounded burn triggers, cloning Y'shtola with Quantum Misalignment, chaining spells via Bolas's Citadel, or executing the two-card infinite life-drain combo of Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Exquisite Blood.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Council of Reeds
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dovin, Architect of Law
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Flip the Switch
  • 1 Frozen in Ice
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Teferi, Timeless Voyager
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thancred Waters
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Tranquil Cove
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed