Yshtola by smoothtcg

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck leverages Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as a potent burn and card-draw engine within an Esper artifact shell. By casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater, Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent and gains 2 life. Equipping Y'shtola with damage-triggered draw effects like Curiosity or Ophidian Eye turns every trigger into a three-card draw burst, supercharging hand velocity. A dense artifact foundation featuring seven Bobbleheads, cost reducers, and mana rocks provides consistent ramp and trigger fodder. The deck transitions from incremental burn into explosive storm finishes using Bolas's Citadel and Aetherflux Reservoir, or wide combat finishes via Simulacrum Synthesizer and Cyberdrive Awakener. Robust interactive spells like Supreme Verdict, Swords to Plowshares, and Render Silent keep opposing threats in check during setup.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agility Bobblehead
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beyond the Quiet
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Charisma Bobblehead
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eerie Interference
  • 1 Endurance Bobblehead
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Intelligence Bobblehead
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Luck Bobblehead
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mists of Lórien
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pemmin's Aura
  • 1 Perception Bobblehead
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Radiant Lotus
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Seachrome Coast
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Strength Bobblehead
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Time Sieve
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vedalken Orrery
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed