Y'shtola by user5124348

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and attrition deck led by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It focuses on casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to trigger Y'shtola's passive burn and lifegain ability, which also enables end-step card draw whenever opponents lose 4 or more life in a turn. The deck supports this game plan with cost-reduction permanents like Lyse Hext and Mindsplice Apparatus, Magecraft token engines like Monastery Mentor and Sedgemoor Witch, and life-drain amplifiers like Professor Onyx. It controls the table using efficient spot removal, versatile countermagic, and sweepers like Farewell. Without relying on fast mana or infinite combos, the deck grinds out opponents through compounding life total swings, wide token generation, and finisher spells such as Exsanguinate and kicked Rite of Replication.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Chandra, Chill of Compliance
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Dancer's Chakrams
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Extended Absence
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Idyllic Beachfront
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Martial Impetus
  • 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Precise Redaction
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychic Impetus
  • 1 Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reverse the Polarity
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola Rhul
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed