Y'shtola B3 by user2532739

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This upgraded Y'shtola, Night's Blessed precon is a spell-slinging drain deck built around casting mana-value-3-or-greater noncreature spells. Each such spell triggers Y'shtola to deal 2 damage to each opponent and gain 2 life, and the entire structure exists to multiply that exchange: Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, and Defiant Bloodlord convert every point of life gained into direct damage, while Alhammarret's Archive doubles both the life gain and the card draw. A redundant package of Wizard tokens (from Transpose, Circle of Power, and Cornered by Black Mages), plus Papalymo Totolymo, Kambal, Consul of Allocation, and Black Mage's Rod, pings on every noncreature spell, stacking additional damage. The deck closes games through cumulative life-drain attrition, with Exsanguinate as a burst finisher. It is a grindy, value-oriented control deck that wins by out-draining the table rather than through combos or fast combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Absorb
• 1 Alhammarret's Archive
• 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archaeomancer's Map
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Astrologian's Planisphere
• 1 Authority of the Consuls
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Black Mage's Rod
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Cornered by Black Mages
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Cut a Deal
• 1 Dancer's Chakrams
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Defiant Bloodlord
• 1 Demolition Field
• 1 Desolate Mire
• 1 Dive Down
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Final Judgment
• 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1 Idyllic Beachfront
• 1 Into the Story
• 3 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1 Krile Baldesion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Observed Stasis
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 4 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Reaper's Scythe
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scavenger Grounds
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skycloud Expanse
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Sunlit Marsh
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Tandem Lookout
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Thancred Waters
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urianger Augurelt
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed