Yshtola Clone Control by Onitheus

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck leverages Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as an Esper control and spellslinger commander that turns high-mana noncreature spells into a table-wide burn and card advantage engine. By hitting the 3+ mana value threshold on removal, card draw, and stax enchantments, Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent while stabilizing your life total and drawing an extra card each end step. The deck complements this attrition strategy with cost-reducers like Baral, Chief of Compliance and Geist of Saint Thalia to cast bulky spells ahead of curve. Opponents are squeezed through asymmetric life-loss taxes such as Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Painful Quandary, and Polluted Bonds. Once life totals are softened, the deck pivots to decisive finishers including Bolas's Citadel, Wound Reflection, or a catastrophic Torment of Hailfire. Supported by a robust suite of flexible removal and countermagic, the deck excels at grinding out games through methodical, compound life loss.

Decklist (96 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed