Burn baby burn by user2376623

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper spellslinger and lifedrain control strategy. The deck seeks to control the board and tax opponents' life totals through noncreature spells, defensive enchantments, and incremental burn. Y'shtola turns every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater into a 4-point life swing while providing reliable card draw. The primary win condition revolves around establishing an infinite life-drain loop using Exquisite Blood paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, or Marauding Blight-Priest. Alternatively, the deck closes games through massive drain spells like Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate backed by countermagic and pillow-fort protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Azorius Cluestone
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Counterbalance
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Crushing Disappointment
  • 1 Cryptic Command
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Greater Auramancy
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Manalith
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Cluestone
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplex
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Bonds
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Risky Shortcut
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sonic Screwdriver
  • 1 Spell Swindle
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syphon Soul
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Yahenni's Expertise