New Untitled Deck by Comodin

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and burn strategy piloted by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around exploiting Y'shtola's triggered ability, which drains each opponent for 2 damage and gains 2 life whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater. By equipping Y'shtola with damage-based draw auras like Curiosity and Ophidian Eye, every 3+ mana spell draws three fresh cards, effectively turning the commander into an explosive storm engine. Mana cost reducers like Baral, Chief of Compliance, Geist of Saint Thalia, and Lyse Hext reduce 3-mana spells to 1 or 2 mana, while non-legendary clone sorceries like Irenicus's Vile Duplication and Quantum Misalignment duplicate Y'shtola to multiply the damage output exponentially. Backed by free countermagic like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship, the deck comfortably controls the board before unleashing a lethal sequence of discounted spells, burn tokens, or a game-ending Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Helm of Awakening
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, Ghost Counsel
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed