New Untitled Deck by tomatoman

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Esper spellslinger deck is commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, aiming to drain the table through noncreature spell velocity. The strategy establishes early mana acceleration with 2-mana artifacts to cast Y'shtola on Turn 3. From Turn 4 onward, casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater triggers Y'shtola to deal 2 damage to each opponent and gain 2 life, while also drawing a card at the end step if an opponent loses 4 life. Secondary engines like Monastery Mentor, Sedgemoor Witch, and Murmuring Mystic create wide token boards, while Archmage Emeritus and Emet-Selch of the Third Seat sustain card advantage. The deck controls the board using flexible removal like Void Rend and Anguished Unmaking, backed by counterspells. The game closes on Turn 8 through accumulated token combat damage paired with asymmetric life-loss spells like Exsanguinate or Debt to the Deathless.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Azorius Chancery
• 1 Azorius Signet
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Cleansing Nova
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Debt to the Deathless
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Guildgate
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dovin's Veto
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 6 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice
• 1 Krile Baldesion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Monastery Mentor
• 1 Murmuring Mystic
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Negate
• 1 Orzhov Basilica
• 1 Orzhov Signet
• 1 Painful Truths
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 5 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Quasiduplicate
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Relm's Sketching
• 1 Restoration Magic
• 1 Return to the Light Realms
• 1 Rona, Sheoldred's Faithful
• 1 Sedgemoor Witch
• 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
• 1 Shelter
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starscape Cleric
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sublime Epiphany
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Taigam, Ojutai Master
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Progress
• 1 Talrand, Sky Summoner
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thancred Waters
• 1 Theorix Charm
• 1 Thirst for Discovery
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Unbreakable Formation
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Vega, the Watcher
• 1 Village Bell-Ringer
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Y'shtola Rhul
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed