Y'shtola B3 by Smorales99

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control/value deck is helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, who turns every high-CMC noncreature spell into a repeatable pinging engine and life-gain source, while also drawing cards whenever an opponent loses 4+ life in a turn. The primary game plan is to establish a controlling board presence with removal, counterspells, and pillowfort effects, then grind out incremental damage through Y'shtola's trigger, Papalymo Totolymo, and token producers like Transpose and Circle of Power. The deck finishes with a massive Exsanguinate or an overwhelming token swarm. It lacks fast combos, relying on attrition and value accumulation over many turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Deadly Embrace
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Deny Entry
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fight On!
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Loki's Double
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Resentful Revelation
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Read
  • 1 Stuck in Summoner's Sanctum
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tonberry
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Ultros, Obnoxious Octopus
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urianger Augurelt
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Voracious Bibliophile
  • 1 White Mage's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival