Y'shtola, Night's Blessed by user6547997

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper control and combo strategy led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around leveraging Esper's premier interaction, pillowfort defenses, and asymmetrical taxes to dictate the pace of the game while constructing an unassailable card advantage engine. Y'shtola weaponizes noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater, dealing 2 damage to each opponent and gaining 2 life, which synergizes exceptionally with damage-trigger auras like Curiosity and Helm of the Ghastlord to draw massive bursts of cards. The deck stalls aggression using defensive pieces like Propaganda, Sphere of Safety, and Teferi, Time Raveler, while disrupting opponents with format-defining free counterspells like Force of Will and Fierce Guardianship. Once the board is secure, the deck executes game-ending infinite loops via Exquisite Blood paired with Enduring Tenacity or Sanguine Bond, or Bloodchief Ascension alongside Mindcrank, draining all opponents from 40 to 0 life in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 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 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed