yeeshtola

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is the engine of this Esper control-combo deck. The primary plan is to resolve Bloodchief Ascension, charge all three quest counters with Y'shtola's noncreature-spell pings over three end steps, then pair it with Mindcrank for a milling life-drain loop that eliminates the table. Secondary paths use the same drain triggers with Enduring Tenacity, Exsanguinate, or Urza's Guilt, while Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Stasis, Zur's Weirding, and Solitary Confinement buy time. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built entirely around Y'shtola's two triggers and the curve of 3+ MV noncreature spells that feed them.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Afterlife
• 1 Arcane Lighthouse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Dark Petition
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Day of Judgment
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Disrupt
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Forbid
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Ghostly Pilferer
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Gift of Immortality
• 1 Greed
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1 Inkshield
• 13 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Land Tax
• 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
• 1 Lunar Insight
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Negate
• 1 Norn's Annex
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Ossification
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyresis
• 6 Plains
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field
• 1 Refute
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Sickening Dreams
• 1 Silence
• 1 Silent Clearing
• 1 Snap
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solitary Confinement
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Stasis
• 1 Stock Up
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Supreme Verdict
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Time Stop
• 1 Urza's Guilt
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vile Consumption
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
• 1 Zur's Weirding