test by user9470490

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control strategy commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It converts noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater into simultaneous life drain and life gain. The deck accelerates through dense 1-2 CMC ramp to deploy Y'shtola by Turn 3. It then enchants her with damage-triggered auras like Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Helm of the Ghastlord, turning every qualifying spell into a burst of 3 drawn cards and forced discards. A deep interaction suite of 1-mana counterspells, uncounterable removal like Void Rend, and mana-refunding answers like Rewind and Unwind protects the board while advancing Y'shtola's drain triggers on opposing turns. The deck closes games around Turn 7 using Approach of the Second Sun, massive Exsanguinate casts, or a kicked Rite of Replication targeting Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Final Judgment
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 White Auracite
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed