New Untitled Deck by user3263755

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper control/attrition deck in which Y'shtola, Night's Blessed turns the entire noncreature half of the deck into shocks and an end-step draw trigger. Every 3+ mana instant, sorcery, or enchantment pings each opponent for 2 and gains you life, while any player losing 4+ life in a turn nets you cards. The game plan is draw-go control: a wall of counters and instant-speed removal protects a suite of tax/draw engines (Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Esper Sentinel, Necropotence), while Delney, Streetwise Lookout and token copies from Irenicus's Vile Duplication and Quantum Misalignment multiply Y'shtola's triggers. Enduring Tenacity converts the deck's constant lifegain into additional damage, and the finisher is a big Exsanguinate, usually backed by Silence or Grand Abolisher. Inkshield and a storm-powered Amphibian Downpour offer alternate defensive/combat routes. This is a slow, resilient engine deck, not a combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed