Y'shtola (Upgraded) by user9205238

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper life-drain combo deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, built around converting life into cards and cards into drain. The deck treats life as a resource - paying it for Vampiric Tutor, Necropotence, Ad Nauseam, Bolas's Citadel, and its pain lands and fetches - then converts the resulting card advantage into life-drain wins. The primary kill is the Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond infinite loop, with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose as redundant halves. Backup lines include Bolas's Citadel + Aetherflux Reservoir and Peer into the Abyss + Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Y'shtola's own trigger - 2 damage per noncreature spell with mana value 3+ - plus Papalymo Totolymo and Transpose tokens provide incidental drain that accelerates the clock and fuels her end-step draw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed