New Untitled Deck by vahuvahu

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Esper control/stax deck, helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, aims to lock the table out of meaningful gameplay and then grind out a win through incremental life loss. The core plan is a layered prison of Rule of Law effects (Rule of Law, Archon of Emeria, Eidolon of Rhetoric), tax pieces (Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Thorn of Amethyst, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, God-Pharaoh's Statue), and untap denial (Winter Orb, Static Orb). Once opponents can cast only one spell per turn and struggle to untap mana, Y'shtola's trigger - 2 damage to each opponent per 3+ MV noncreature spell - plus Papalymo Totolymo, Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful, and Painful Quandary drain the table out. The deck also runs draw-denial (Narset, Parter of Veils, Notion Thief) and a dense counterspell suite to protect the lock. It is a slow, deliberate, inevitability-driven deck with no fast combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Damping Sphere
  • 1 Deny the Witch
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dissipate
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dovin, Hand of Control
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 God-Pharaoh's Statue
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Ice Out
  • 1 Illicit Shipment
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Architect of Thought
  • 1 Jace, Unraveler of Secrets
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Loxodon Gatekeeper
  • 1 Mana Breach
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minor Misstep
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phantom Interference
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repulse
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spelltithe Enforcer
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
  • 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
  • 1 Tezzeret's Gambit
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Thorn of Amethyst
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 You Find the Villains' Lair