ProxyForge: Y’shtola by ProxyForge

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to trigger Y'shtola, dealing 2 damage to every opponent while gaining 2 life. By attaching auras like Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Helm of the Ghastlord to Y'shtola, each trigger deals damage to all three opponents simultaneously, drawing three cards and rapidly refilling the hand. The deck supplements this engine with potent tax and drain pieces including Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Kambal, Consul of Allocation, and Talion, the Kindly Lord. A deep suite of free and efficient interaction defends the board state while keeping opponents off balance. Once the table's life totals are depleted, the deck finishes all opponents together using high-impact X-spells like Torment of Hailfire, Debt to the Deathless, or Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismantling Wave
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Supreme Verdict
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unexplained Absence
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed