new dawn by Clud

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Esper control-combo deck built around Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as a life-drain and card-advantage engine. The plan is to resolve cheap interaction, deploy value engines, and cast noncreature spells of mana value 3+ to ping the table for 2 while gaining life, then draw off the end-step clause whenever 4+ life is lost. Primary wins are two-card infinite drain loops (Exquisite Blood + Enduring Tenacity, Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank), backed by grind pieces like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Bolas's Citadel, Revel in Riches, and infect via Grafted Exoskeleton/Phyresis. Dense free and instant-speed answers keep the board clear while the commander and clones (Sakashima the Impostor, Spark Double) multiply triggers. The deck plays reactive midrange-control that closes once a drain engine sticks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 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 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 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 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed