New Yshtola by lurkingfox

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger and life-drain control strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around exploiting Y'shtola's static trigger, which deals 2 damage to each opponent and gains 2 life whenever a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater is cast. By enchanting Y'shtola with Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, Helm of the Ghastlord, or pairing her with Tandem Lookout, every qualifying spell deals damage to all three opponents simultaneously, triggering three separate card draws. This creates a self-fueling velocity engine that rapidly cycles through the library while burning down opposing life totals. The deck supports this core with cloning effects like Quantum Misalignment and Spark Double, life-drain amplifiers like Enduring Tenacity and Queza, Augur of Agonies, and a robust suite of free and efficient counterspells and removal to protect the board and close out the game by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Azorius Chancery
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Clear the Mind
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crushing Disappointment
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glen Elendra's Answer
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Omniscience
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Penance
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Temple of Enlightenment
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed