Y'Shtola by user8002339

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control deck led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to drain opponents for 2 damage and gain 2 life on each cast. These triggers easily satisfy Y'shtola's end-step threshold to draw extra cards whenever a player loses 4 or more life in a turn. The deck controls the game pace using efficient spot removal, board wipes, and pillowfort pieces like Propaganda and Authority of the Consuls. It amplifies its burn output using companion pingers like Papalymo Totolymo, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian. Because it lacks fast mana and instant infinite combos, the deck wins through steady attrition, taxing opponents with Painful Quandary, generating evasive bird tokens with Hermes, Overseer of Elpis, and finishing the table with a scaled Exsanguinate or kicked Rite of Replication around Turn 9.

Decklist (83 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Citizen's Arrest
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Errant and Giada
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaito, Dancing Shadow
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Markov Purifier
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 See Double
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Thancred Waters
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Wrath of God
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Zero Point Ballad