Y'shtola - FF by user3446201

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control list commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan focuses on deploying inexpensive mana acceleration on Turn 2, casting Y'shtola on Turn 3, and triggering her drain and life-gain abilities on Turn 4 using noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater. By coupling Y'shtola's drain with vigilance combat attacks, the deck reliably achieves the 4-life loss threshold to draw extra cards during end steps. Rather than executing fast infinite combos, the deck controls the battlefield through board wipes like Damn and Vanquish the Horde, taxes attacks with Propaganda and Ghostly Prison, and accumulates advantage using tokens from Hermes, Overseer of Elpis. It reaches a critical must-answer board state by Turn 7, closing out the table around Turn 9 via wide token attacks, Bolas's Citadel value turns, or a decisive Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gift of Orzhova
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Memories Returning
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overkill
  • 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 Sheltered by Ghosts
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shredder's Revenge
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stuck in Summoner's Sanctum
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swallowed by Leviathan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed