Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - Budget by user4966526

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper control deck built around Y'shtola as both its drain engine and repeatable draw source. The primary plan is to protect Y'shtola, duplicate her with Sakashima, Multiversal Recruitment, and Quantum Misalignment, and then make every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater deal 2 or more damage to each opponent. Secondary paths use Kambal, Papalymo, Painful Quandary, and Bloodchief Ascension for attrition and tax damage. Sakashima and the token-copy sorceries are the real "hidden extra commanders" in the 99, though the deck has no separate true hidden commander. The plan is interactive and grindy; it wins by converting counterspells, draw spells, and flexible control pieces into a draining endgame.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blessing of Leeches
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterpoint
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Curator's Ward
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Dark Dabbling
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fantastic Elasticity
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed