Y'shtola Control by user4653904

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Esper control deck wins by incremental life-drain and a large Exsanguinate. Y'shtola is both a draw engine and a repeatable ping; every 3+ mana noncreature spell attacks life totals. The backup plan is a slower life-gain conduit: Papalymo, Sanguine Bond, Vito, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Queza turn each spell and draw into damage. Stax/tax pieces (Blind Obedience, Authority of the Consuls, Propaganda, Ghostly Prison) and board wipes buy time. There is no hidden commander; Alisaie/Alphinaud are support pair in the 99. Y'shtola is single-faced, so no DFC commander analysis is needed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grafdigger's Cage
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Split Up
  • 1 Stuck in Summoner's Sanctum
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Thancred Waters
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed