yola 2 by user7020272

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Combo-Control deck led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy focuses on controlling the board and accumulating massive card advantage through Y'shtola's ability, which drains opponents for 2 life, gains 2 life, and draws cards whenever you cast noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater. By enchanting Y'shtola with damage-trigger draw auras like Curiosity or doubling triggers with Delney, Streetwise Lookout, the deck rapidly refills its hand while chipping away at opposing life totals. A dense suite of free and efficient interaction—including Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deadly Rollick—alongside defensive enchantments like Ghostly Prison protects your board while advancing toward a finish. The deck seals victory through compact infinite combos, most notably Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose with Exquisite Blood or Bolas's Citadel loops with Sensei's Divining Top and Aetherflux Reservoir, eliminating all three opponents in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Bastion
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed