yshtola by Anubi

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and combo strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It focuses on controlling the early board with efficient removal, countermagic, and defensive pillowfort enchantments such as Ghostly Prison and Propaganda. As Y'shtola enters the battlefield, casting noncreature spells of mana value 3 or greater continuously drains opponents and replenishes your hand on each end step. The deck accumulates resources and digs through the library using potent card draw engines like Talion, the Kindly Lord and Archmage Emeritus. It closes out the game around Turn 6 by assembling decisive life drain combos, primarily Bloodthirsty Conqueror paired with Marauding Blight-Priest, or a charged Bloodchief Ascension combined with Mindcrank. With protection from Teferi, Time Raveler and Flare of Fortitude, the deck executes instant table-wide finishes while maintaining a resilient defensive posture.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dromar's Cavern
  • 1 Eiganjo Castle
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Ethersworn Adjudicator
  • 1 Exhibition Tidecaller
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Homunculus Horde
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima
  • 1 Joined Researchers // Secret Rendezvous
  • 1 Karoo
  • 1 Katara, Waterbending Master
  • 1 Lost in the Maze
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Memory Deluge
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rupture Spire
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Tomik, Wielder of Law
  • 1 Twining Twins // Swift Spiral
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Waterfront District
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed