Y'shtola and the Unknown Theme.dec by xPosiSupremex

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a slow Esper control-drain deck built around Y'shtola, Night's Blessed: every 3-plus-mana noncreature spell turns into direct damage, life gain, and often extra card draw. The primary plan is to hold ground with tax effects, then finish with Exquisite Blood plus Vito, Enduring Tenacity, or Sanguine Bond. Once any opponent loses life, the drain loop becomes lethal. Secondary paths use Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire as large mana sinks, and Atemsis, All-Seeing as a de facto hidden commander: Black Mage's Rod lets Atemsis deal noncombat damage on noncreature casts and reveal a hand-heavy win. Y'shtola is the main engine and draw source rather than the single wincon.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atemsis, All-Seeing
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Crushing Disappointment
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kykar, Zephyr Awakener
  • 1 Liesa, Shroud of Dusk
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sphere of Safety
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thopter Spy Network
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed