Y'shtola by n107yuh

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper spellslinger/lifedrain control deck helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed, built around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to drain 2 life from each opponent and gain 2 life, while her end-step trigger converts that life loss into card draw. The deck leans on a dense suite of cost reducers - Lyse Hext, Valeria Richards, Precocious, Case of the Ransacked Lab, and Mindsplice Apparatus - to chain multiple MV3+ spells per turn, amplifying the drain with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Wound Reflection, Bloodchief Ascension, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Secondary paths include infect auras (Glistening Oil, Phyresis) on prowess creatures, Metallurgic Summonings Construct tokens, and a Yawgmoth's Will/Counterpoint recursion engine. The deck plays a patient, interactive game: pillowfort pieces, premium removal, and a strong counterspell suite keep the table honest while the drain clock grinds everyone down.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Adarkar Wastes
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Landscape
• 1 Counterpoint
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Curtains' Call
• 1 Dark Petition
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Dig Through Time
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Ertai's Scorn
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fantastic Elasticity
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Glistening Oil
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 High Fae Trickster
• 1 Into the Story
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Meticulous Archive
• 1 Mindsplice Apparatus
• 1 Misdirection
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Ophidian Eye
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 1 Perplex
• 1 Phyresis
• 1 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Quantum Misalignment
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Shadowy Backstreet
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sigil of Sleep
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solve the Equation
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Stroke of Midnight
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 1 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Undermine
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vile Consumption
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Wizard's Staff
• 1 Wound Reflection
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
• 1 Yahenni's Expertise
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will