Control/Self mill by user6539390

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is an Esper combo-control deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed that plays like a tuned Thoracle/Doomsday pile: deploy the format's best interaction and tax engines, run opponents out of resources, then win with an empty-library kill. The primary line is Thassa's Oracle + Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, with Doomsday as a second enabler and Laboratory Maniac, Jace, Wielder of Mysteries, and Doctor Doom, Unrivaled as alternate outlets. Y'shtola is a value layer rather than a requirement: her end-step draw fires off the deck's constant life payments (pain lands, Doomsday, Snuff Out, Lim-Dul's Vault), and her 2-damage pings from 3+ MV noncreature spells push incidental reach. Every winning line resides in the 99, backed by eleven-plus search effects, fourteen counterspells, and five free spells - a 2.26 average MV and 35 lands plus nine rocks keep the whole machine fast and consistent.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hope's Aero Magic
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shadowbringers
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Plains
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tarnished Citadel
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed