Y’shtola, Night's Blessed by ChetCheleo

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This Esper control deck is commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed and focuses on turning noncreature spells into table-wide life drain and explosive card draw. By enchanting Y'shtola with effects like Curiosity or Ophidian Eye, every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater deals 2 damage to each opponent and draws 3 cards. The deck uses this massive card velocity to dig into protective countermagic, pillowfort enchantments, and compact infinite combos. Its primary win conditions are the classic Exquisite Blood loops with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, as well as Bloodchief Ascension combined with Mindcrank. Backed by a premier suite of free interaction like Fierce Guardianship, Deadly Rollick, and Silence, the deck safely controls the board before executing an instant kill on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Submerge
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed