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Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is the centerpiece of an Esper control deck that wins by converting noncreature spells into table-wide life loss and card draw. The primary plan is to resolve Y'shtola early, protect her with haste/hexproof equipment, and chain 3+ mana instants, sorceries, and enchantments. Wound Reflection doubles the resulting drain, while Metallurgic Summonings and Shark Typhoon provide a token-based secondary clock. The commander's end-step draw trigger rewards turns where an opponent has lost 4+ life, which the burn package reliably creates. There is no infinite combo; most games are decided by incremental drain backed by counterspell-heavy interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Celestial Colonnade
  • 1 Champion's Helm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Divine Reckoning
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Ertai Resurrected
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Metallurgic Summonings
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystical Teachings
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Restless Anchorage
  • 1 Restless Fortress
  • 1 Retribution of the Meek
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Seat of the Synod
  • 1 Secret Passage
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed