Y'shtola, Night's Blessed by PFLGabe

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This Esper deck uses Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as a resilient card advantage and life-drain engine at the helm of a high-power control and combo shell. The primary game plan controls the board using efficient removal, countermagic, and light stax before assembling a compact win condition. The fastest path to victory executes Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation, while secondary lines leverage Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose with Exquisite Blood or Displacer Kitten loops with Teferi, Time Raveler. Y'shtola rewards you for casting mid-cost interaction and noncreature spells by burning the table and drawing cards, keeping your hand full of answers until you are ready to combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Demonic Consultation
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Displacer Kitten
• 1 Drannith Magistrate
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Flare of Denial
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Flusterstorm
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 Into the Flood Maw
• 4 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mental Misstep
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 5 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Silence
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Tataru Taru
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
• 1 Thassa's Oracle
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Valley Floodcaller
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
• 1 Zur the Enchanter