Y'shtola (B5) by Dhale93

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper Combo-Control strategy that leverages Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as a mid-game card engine and life buffer while racing toward compact combo victories. Built around the premier competitive pairing of Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation, the deck uses an explosive fast-mana package to present win attempts as early as Turn 3. To safeguard its critical turn, it deploys silence effects like Grand Abolisher and Teferi, Time Raveler, preventing opponents from casting spells or activating abilities on key windows. In slower pods, the deck transitions into a potent control shell, using asymmetric hate pieces like Drannith Magistrate alongside recurring card draw engines such as The One Ring, Rhystic Study, and curiosity-enchanted burn triggers from Y'shtola. If the primary combo fails, infinite mana loops with Hullbreaker Horror and Displacer Kitten provide robust secondary routes to close the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Search for Azcanta // Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed