Weaver Downgrade by ShadowWizard

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Esper Spellslinger Control deck commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy revolves around deploying Y'shtola alongside cheap damage-multiplying auras like Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, Sigil of Sleep, and Phyresis. Whenever a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater is cast—including discounted delve spells like Dig Through Time and alternate-cost spells like Force of Negation and Deadly Rollick—Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent and gains 2 life. This converts into massive table-wide card draw, repeated creature bounces, or rapid poison counters. The deck supplements this burn-draw engine with Teferi, Time Raveler and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV for proactive suppression, backed by a premier suite of free interaction. It closes games either by rapidly stacking 10 poison counters with infect auras or by assembling the lethal two-card infinite combo of Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Crushing Disappointment
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Glistening Oil
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Island
  • 1 King T'Challa // Black Panther, Hope Enduring
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Submerge
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unexplained Absence
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Yahenni's Expertise