yshtola B3 by kiaora

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and attrition strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The deck aims to slow opposing progression through potent stax pieces like Clarion Conqueror, Opposition Agent, and Trouble in Pairs while developing mana rocks on early turns. Once Y'shtola enters the battlefield, every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater drains opponents for 2 life, gains 2 life, and fuels consistent card draw on each player's end step. By attaching Curiosity or Ophidian Eye to Y'shtola, each spell triggers massive multi-card draws, creating an overwhelming card-advantage engine. The deck protects its board using premier free and low-cost interaction spells such as Dawn's Truce, Flare of Fortitude, and Dovin's Veto. Win conditions focus on incremental drain from Kambal, Consul of Allocation and Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian, culminating in a game-ending Exsanguinate or sustained spellslinger burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clarion Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hushbringer
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Smuggler's Share
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Surveillance Room
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed