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Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper control-drain shell. The deck's core loop is simple: cast 3+ mana noncreature spells to trigger Y'shtola, gaining life and damaging opponents, while the end-step draw keeps the gas flowing. Primary kill is Exquisite Blood + Marauding Blight-Priest, with Y'shtola, Aetherflux Reservoir, or Professor Onyx supplying the initial life gain. A backup infinite-mana channel uses Strionic Resonator + Unstoppable Plan plus mana rocks, finishing through Exsanguinate or Debt to the Deathless. The commander is an engine, not a combo piece; no hidden commander exists in the list.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1 Amazing Acrobatics
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avatar's Wrath
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bane's Contingency
• 1 Bleachbone Verge
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Flow State
• 1 Force of Will
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Inkshield
• 5 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
• 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
• 1 Mocking Sprite
• 1 Mortify
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Mystical Teachings
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 3 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Praetor's Grasp
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Quantum Misalignment
• 1 Quick Study
• 1 Relic of Legends
• 1 Reverent Howl
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 Rite of Replication
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Soul Manipulation
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Turbulent Moor
• 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Undermine
• 1 Unstoppable Plan
• 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed