Y'shtola 3 by mjaspike

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, designed to control the pace of the game through high-density reactive spells while converting noncreature spellcasts into steady life swings and card advantage. The deck accelerates in the early turns with efficient two-mana artifacts before establishing Y'shtola on turn 3 to monetize every three-mana-or-greater noncreature spell. While controlling the board with premium spot removal, uncounterable interaction, and pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison, the deck digs through its library using powerful card selection spells such as Fact or Fiction and Dig Through Time. It concludes the game by assembling the decisive two-card infinite drain loop of Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or Enduring Tenacity, or by executing a devastating Torment of Hailfire. The strategy combines defensive resilience with an un-interactive combo finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Confluence
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed