Y’shtola by diegoboricua

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and spell-slinger midrange build led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around controlling the early-to-midgame using efficient removal and asymmetric sweepers such as Farewell, Cleansing Nova, and Destined Confrontation. Meanwhile, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed chips away at opposing life totals and stabilizes the pilot by draining each opponent for 2 life whenever a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater is cast. Incremental card draw from Y'shtola, Archmage Emeritus, and Fact or Fiction keeps resources flowing into the late game. Once the board is subdued, the deck deploys game-ending threats including Archon of Cruelty, Archfiend of Despair, and Serra's Emissary, or executes massive swings via Pox Plague and kicked Rite of Replication. The deck operates reliably on curve, trading early tempo for decisive late-game dominance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Currency Converter
  • 1 Darksteel Angel
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Destined Confrontation
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hraesvelgr of the First Brood
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Misty Palms Oasis
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Noggle the Mind
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Ascended
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of the Void
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Proteus Staff
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Serra's Emissary
  • 1 Sever the Bloodline
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Windbrisk Heights
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed