Y'shtola Lifesteal by Ian1212z

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is a life-loss/lifegain control deck. The main plan is to park Y'shtola, cast noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater, and convert each 2-damage/2-life trigger into a game-ending drain via Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond-style effects. A parallel combo is Bloodchief Ascension with Mindcrank, which mills and drains the table once Ascension has three counters. Counterspells, instant removal, and stax pieces buy time, while lifelink equipment and Voice of Victory protect the turn. Papalymo Totolymo acts as a mini-Y'shtola, and Emet-Selch recurs spells; there is no double-faced commander, so the deck is built around the front face.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caduceus, Staff of Hermes
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirrormade
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Rule of Law
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Steel of the Godhead
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Verity Circle
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed