Esper Rhuls (Y’Shtola Night’s Blessed) by Soverign

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a fast Esper cEDH-style deck built around tutoring Bolas's Citadel and transforming Sensei's Divining Top into a repeatable drain via Papalymo Totolymo. Y'shtola provides incidental card draw and reach, but the real engine is the two-card backup Oracle/Consultation line. The deck uses an extreme density of one-mana tutors, fast artifact mana, and free interaction to assemble one of these wins by turn four. Papalymo is effectively a hidden commander: its one-damage trigger turns every Top cast into a full table drain, and with Citadel it loops without mana. The only other true win condition is Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, which also requires no commander support.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copy Enchantment
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 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 Generous Gift
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed