Y'shtola lifegain/burn by user5374957

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper control and drain strategy led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to repeatedly trigger Y'shtola, dealing 2 damage to each opponent, gaining 2 life, and drawing a card at each end step where 4 or more life was lost. The deck establishes early board security using pillowfort enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Propaganda, alongside asymmetric denial pieces like Cursed Totem and Teferi, Time Raveler. A robust interaction suite of 18 instant-speed spells protects the board and controls threats. As the game develops, card draw engines like Bolas's Citadel, Curiosity on Y'shtola, and Black Market Connections fuel card flow, leading into decisive win conditions via Wound Reflection drain acceleration or infinite combos with Bloodchief Ascension plus Mindcrank and Bloodthirsty Conqueror plus Marauding Blight-Priest.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dissipation Field
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed