Y'Shtola by Chizuri

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck operates as an Esper control and life-drain engine led by Yshtola, Nights Blessed. The primary strategy focuses on controlling the pace of the game through a dense suite of countermagic, removal, and defensive stax pieces such as Ghostly Prison and Grand Arbiter Augustin IV. Yshtola generates card advantage and steadily drains opponents whenever high-cost noncreature spells resolve or combat damage lands. The main path to victory is assembling an infinite life-drain loop using Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or by completely dominating card economy and life totals via Bolas's Citadel and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grand Arbiter Augustin IV
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Vapors
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter