Y'shtola by user2849681

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper cEDH control and combo build that leverages commander Y'shtola, Night's Blessed for incidental card advantage and life drain while driving toward a fast, protected finish. The primary win condition is the premier two-card combination of Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact. Fast mana artifacts and black rituals accelerate mana production, enabling the deck to deploy powerful card-advantage engines like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and The One Ring on early turns. The deck protects its combo attempts using proactive silence effects such as Grand Abolisher, Silence, Ranger-Captain of Eos, and Teferi, Time Raveler, alongside a dense package of free counterspells. Asymmetric hate pieces like Drannith Magistrate and Opposition Agent slow down opposing strategies while you assemble the win. If the primary line is contested, the deck recovers through deep card draw, graveyard recursion, or Praetor's Grasp to close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed