Y’shtola Final by UrzaRuinerOfFun

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This Esper list functions as a high-powered control and combo deck. The primary win condition relies on casting Thassa's Oracle and immediately exiling the library with Demonic Consultation to win the game on Turn 4. The deck supports this game plan with format-ceiling mana acceleration, including Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Chrome Mox, and Mox Diamond. A world-class card-advantage engine anchored by Rhystic Study, Necropotence, and The One Ring keeps hand size full while drawing into key tutors. Defensively, the list slows down aggressive combat strategies using The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale, Ghostly Prison, and Blind Obedience. A deep suite of free and efficient counterspells defends the combo turn, while Grand Abolisher silences opposing interaction. Secondary routes such as Bruvac the Grandiloquent mill lines and the Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond combo provide alternative paths to victory if the primary line is contested.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Elixir of Immortality
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Revelation
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed