Y'shtola, Night's Blessed by user7888012

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This Esper control-combo deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leverages life-gain and life-loss triggers to generate card advantage and incremental damage. The primary game plan is to assemble one of several compact two-card infinite combos-Chain of Smog + Professor Onyx or Exquisite Blood + Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose/Vizkopa Guildmage-while using a dense suite of tutors, counterspells, and instant-speed removal to protect the winning turn. Y'shtola herself provides a steady stream of cards and incidental drain, but the deck's engine lives in the 99. Secondary value lines include Bolas's Citadel for top-deck casting, Zur the Enchanter to fetch key enchantments, and Smothering Tithe for explosive mana. The deck is highly interactive and can pivot between controlling the board and assembling a deterministic win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal of Altar Cave
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Endwalker
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expansion Algorithm
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gold-Forged Thopteryx
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kefka's Tower
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Pulse of the Grid
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowbringers
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter