~Tola Time by user9823034

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control list commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The strategy focuses on casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to burn all opponents, gain life, and trigger end-step card draw. Rather than racing with fast mana or infinite combos, the deck controls the pace of play using attack taxes like Propaganda and Ghostly Prison, versatile removal like Anguished Unmaking, and flash enablers like Leyline of Anticipation. The primary win condition scales by creating non-legendary copies of Y'shtola using Spark Double, Irenicus's Vile Duplication, and Quantum Misalignment, turning every subsequent control spell into 4 to 6 global burn damage. Secondary win conditions include Shark Typhoon token swarms, Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis, and severe attrition from Painful Quandary, steadily closing the game out around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Absorb
  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Eye of Ramos
  • 1 Far Traveler
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Into the Story
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Koskun Falls
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Press the Enemy
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skull of Ramos
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tooth of Ramos
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed