cEDH Y'shtola by NomNom9601

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 70

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper midrange and control build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It leverages an efficient mana curve, dense fast mana acceleration, and oppressive early stax pieces to slow down fast opponents while developing its own powerful card advantage engines. Key hate pieces such as Drannith Magistrate, Cursed Totem, and Opposition Agent disrupt common combo and tutor lines. Meanwhile, persistent draw engines like Rhystic Study, The One Ring, and damage-triggered auras attached to Y'shtola keep your hand full of free countermagic and removal. The primary route to victory executes around Turn 4 by pairing Displacer Kitten with Teferi, Time Raveler and a 0-mana artifact to draw the entire library, culminating in an immediate win through Laboratory Maniac. As a compact backup, Demonic Consultation combines with Laboratory Maniac to win with minimal mana commitment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Submerge
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed