New Untitled Deck by ErisOfDiscordant

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper deck is helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, a commander that turns every high-mana-value noncreature spell into a repeatable 2-damage-per-opponent drain and generates card draw whenever an opponent loses 4+ life in a turn. The deck leans heavily into a "pillow fort + incidental drain" strategy, using enchantments like Propaganda and Solitary Confinement to delay opponents while deploying a dense suite of life-loss punishers (Kambal, Consul of Allocation, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Mai, Scornful Striker) and life-gain synergies (Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity). Its primary win condition is the Mindcrank + Bloodchief Ascension infinite mill combo, which exiles opponents' libraries once Bloodchief Ascension has three quest counters. Secondary wins include Approach of the Second Sun (cast twice) and Exsanguinate for a large X-spell drain. The deck abuses the command zone value of Y'shtola while maintaining a robust plan B in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brilliant Wings
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter