Y’shtola b4 by russty

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed commands an Esper Turbo-Midrange deck designed to dominate high-power tables through resource advantage, resilient disruption, and rapid combo finishes. The deck leverages dense fast mana and efficient tutors to assemble game-winning states as early as Turn 3. Its primary plan focuses on resolving Ad Nauseam or establishing an infinite draw and mana loop using Displacer Kitten, Teferi, Time Raveler, and a zero-mana artifact. This setup draws the entire library, clears opposing boards, and executes an instant table kill with Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank. In grindier games, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed provides steady card draw and life drain, while asymmetric restrictors like Opposition Agent, Teferi, Time Raveler, and Orcish Bowmasters cripple opposing strategies. Backed by free countermagic and absolute silence protection, the deck seamlessly transitions between explosive combo attempts and suffocating midrange control.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will