New Untitled Deck

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is an Esper spell-trigger control deck that turns every 3+ mana noncreature spell into a table-wide drain and an end-step card draw. The commander's life-loss threshold counts any player, so pain lands, Black Market Connections, and your own draw spells can feed card flow even when opponents are being quiet. The deck leans on a dense interaction suite - counterspells, unconditional removal, and board wipes - plus Ghostly Prison and Propaganda to survive into the long game. Its cleanest kill is the Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank loop; the backup is a lifegain/drain attrition kill with Sanguine Bond, Cliffhaven Vampire, Bastion of Remembrance, and a large Exsanguinate. The list contains no real tutor suite, so the deck's consistency comes from Y'shtola, Talion, the Kindly Lord, and the one-shot draw spells rather than from any guaranteed access to its key pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodbender's Rise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Cliffhaven Vampire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shadowbringers
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed