Y'shtola, Night's Blessed by KazumaHyrikaru

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 62

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Control-Combo build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around leveraging early tax and control pieces (Blind Obedience, Opposition Agent, Narset, Parter of Veils) alongside efficient card advantage engines (Black Market Connections, Mystic Remora, and Y'shtola's end-step draw triggers) to stabilize the board. The primary win condition is the compact two-card combination of Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation, which requires only {U}{U}{B} to exile the library and immediately win on the stack. Backup strategies include deep draw via Ad Nauseam, storming through the deck with Bolas's Citadel, and stripping opposing hands via Notion Thief combined with Windfall. A dense, low-cost interaction suite and proactive protection pieces ensure the combo can be defended effectively on Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Tax Collector
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi's Reproach
  • 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed