Y'sholta by Razide82

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper artifact spellslinger strategy piloted by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around exploiting Y'shtola's noncreature spell trigger—which deals 2 damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater. By enchanting Y'shtola with damage-triggered draw effects like Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, and Tandem Lookout, every 3-mana artifact cast draws 3 cards, turning the deck into an explosive burn-and-draw engine. Cost reducers such as Cloud Key, Semblance Anvil, and Urza, Lord Protector allow you to churn through 3-mana Bobbleheads and mana rocks in rapid succession. Meanwhile, Simulacrum Synthesizer amasses enormous Construct tokens, and disruptive auras like Sigil of Sleep and Helm of the Ghastlord dismantle opposing boards and hands. The deck protects its engine with top-tier free counterspells like Fierce Guardianship and Force of Will, closing games through lethal multi-target burn and overwhelming token combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Agility Bobblehead
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Charisma Bobblehead
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Endurance Bobblehead
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Fog Bank
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod, the Radiant Dawn // Heliod, the Warped Eclipse
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Intelligence Bobblehead
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Luck Bobblehead
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Perception Bobblehead
  • 1 Perplex
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Repurposing Bay
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sculpting Steel
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Semblance Anvil
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Simulacrum Synthesizer
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Urza, Lord Protector
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vnwxt, Verbose Host
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed