yshtola by user9043562

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads a slow, grindy Esper prison deck that combines tax/stax permanents with a steady drain engine. The commander is both a repeatable burn outlet - pinging each opponent for 2 on every value noncreature spell - and a conditional draw engine, usually turned on by Necropotence, painlands, or a combination of ping triggers. The deck plans to lock the table under Winter Orb, Static Orb, Grand Arbiter Augustin IV, Narset, Parter of Veils, and Teferi, Time Raveler, break parity with the Teferi planeswalkers, then convert the tempo advantage into extra turns and a final Exsanguinate. Backup drain comes from Papalymo Totolymo, Orcish Bowmasters, and the token from Transpose. There is no fast infinite combo; the win is built on incremental life loss and mana-hoarded bursts.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armageddon
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Capsize
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Pendrell Mists
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Static Orb
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Teferi, Who Slows the Sunset
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tithe
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed