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Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and combo build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy leverages Y'shtola's triggered ability to drain each opponent for 2 life and gain 2 life whenever a noncreature spell of mana value 3 or greater is cast, providing steady life swings and drawing cards on end steps. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and cost reducers like Thunderclap Drake and Lyse Hext before casting Y'shtola on Turn 3. Midgame play utilizes defensive enchantments such as Propaganda and Ghostly Prison alongside flexible removal to control the board while generating card advantage. The deck closes games around Turn 6 by assembling a game-ending two-card combo, primarily Bloodthirsty Conqueror alongside Enduring Tenacity or Marauding Blight-Priest, which triggers an infinite life-drain loop to eliminate the entire table in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed