Y'shtola freecast (Copy) by Crowe

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper control and combo strategy designed to control the pace of the game through extensive interaction, tax effects, and life drain triggers. The commander turns defensive noncreature spells into symmetrical damage and steady card advantage whenever any player loses four or more life. The primary game plan grinds opponents down while assembling one of two lethal two-card combinations: Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Enduring Tenacity, or Starscape Cleric, or Mindcrank paired with an active Bloodchief Ascension or activated Duskmantle Guildmage to instantly drain every opponent.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Katara's Reversal
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Transcendent Dragon
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed