Y’shtola Control by toastydog

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is the front of an Esper control shell that uses taxes, stax, and counters to buy time, converting noncreature spellcasts into drain and card draw. The deck's hidden engine is Bruvac the Grandiloquent: any large mill spell becomes a library kill. The primary plan is to place Bruvac and then resolve Traumatize, kicked Maddening Cacophony, or Kitsune's Technique to empty all libraries; opponents lose on their next draw steps. A secondary life-loss plan uses Bloodletter of Aclazotz with Peer into the Abyss and Exsanguinate. Y'shtola's role is patience: she attacks life totals, discourages blockers, and draws a card whenever an end step finds 4+ life lost.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champions from Beyond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jace, Memory Adept
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Krang & Shredder
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Space-Time Anomaly
  • 1 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed