Y’shtola the cat waifu by TheGreatDak

Format: Commander

Creator: TheGreatDak

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and life-drain strategy helmed by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost mana acceleration to cast Y'shtola on Turn 3 or 4, then leveraging noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to simultaneously burn all opponents, pad the pilot's life total, and trigger end-step card draw. By augmenting Y'shtola with damage-draw Auras like Curiosity and Ophidian Eye, every qualifying spell generates massive card advantage, drawing up to three cards per cast. The deck controls the board using premier reactive interaction, including free counterspells and targeted exile removal. As life totals swing in the pilot's favor, the deck transitions into lethal burst damage via Aetherflux Reservoir, massive Exsanguinate casts, or compounding drain from Psychosis Crawler and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, systematically closing out games across Turns 7 to 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Leyline of Anticipation
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Psychosis Crawler
  • 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Render Silent
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wavebreak Hippocamp
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed