Yshtola

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control build led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy focuses on casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to repeatedly trigger Y'shtola's ability, dealing 2 damage to each opponent and gaining 2 life. This life swing consistently satisfies Y'shtola's end-step condition to draw extra cards. Enchanting Y'shtola with Curiosity or Ophidian Eye turns every 3+ mana noncreature spell into three card draws, rapidly digging through the library. The deck controls the board using flexible spot removal, countermagic, and sweepers before closing the game with group slug attrition, large Exsanguinate casts, or a kicked Rite of Replication.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Blitzball
• 1 Blue Mage's Cane
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Cancel
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Combat Tutorial
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Confusticate and Bebother
• 1 Cornered by Black Mages
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Cut a Deal
• 1 Dancer's Chakrams
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Final Judgment
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1 Into the Story
• 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
• 10 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Krile Baldesion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Observed Stasis
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Overkill
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Quick Study
• 1 Reaper's Scythe
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Relm's Sketching
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sephiroth's Intervention
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 White Auracite
• 1 Wizard's Staff
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed