y'shtola by user8406822

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper control and combo strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The deck leverages efficient mana rocks to deploy premier card draw engines such as Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, The One Ring, and Trouble in Pairs. While policing the table with free and low-cost interaction like Force of Negation, Deadly Rollick, and Mana Drain, it advances toward a compact combo finish. The primary win condition utilizes Displacer Kitten and Teferi, Time Raveler alongside a zero-mana artifact like Mox Amber to draw the entire library and generate infinite mana. It then closes the game on the spot by repeatedly casting 3+ mana noncreature spells to trigger Y'shtola's burn ability. As a backup, Hullbreaker Horror provides an uncounterable bounce loop to strip opponents of their boards and finish the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flash Photography
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadow of the Second Sun
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed