Y'shtola by das-katzen

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed helms an Esper control/drain deck that turns noncreature spells into steady life loss and card advantage. The primary plan is to stabilize with counterspells and removal, then use forced-draw wheels-Windfall, Whispering Madness, and Commit // Memory-amplified by Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Y'shtola's own trigger to drain all opponents. A secondary engine is Bolas's Citadel plus Sensei's Divining Top, which digs through the library and chains spells. Emet-Selch acts as a hidden commander, providing graveyard recursion for the key instants and sorceries. The deck is not a fast combo deck; it wins incrementally once the table is controlled.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commit // Memory
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed