Esper v2 by ChimneyImp

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Esper control in its purest form: keep the board slow, protect Y'shtola, and let every noncreature spell be a small draining engine. The deck uses the front face of its commander; the MDFC utility lands are just flexible mana. Early turns set up a Talisman or Baral, then Y'shtola arrives on turn 3-4. From there, Wizard-token makers (Transpose, Circle of Power, Cornered by Black Mages) transform each later spell into 2 damage from Y'shtola plus 1 per Wizard. Sygg, Sheoldred, and Black Market Connections supply extra draws and life-loss triggers. There is no hidden commander; Papalymo Totolymo and Black Mage's Rod are supporting pingers, not build-arounds.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed