Y'shtola | B3 by user5392674

Format: Commander

Creator: user5392674

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed anchors an Esper control and group-slug strategy. The deck leverages noncreature spells with mana value three or greater to trigger Y'shtola, draining opponents while drawing cards whenever life totals plummet. By enchanting Y'shtola with force multipliers like Curiosity, Phyresis, or Helm of the Ghastlord, each spellcast generates massive card advantage, mass hand destruction, or rapid poison kills. When opponents turtle behind defenses, pillowfort enchantments and robust removal buy time to assemble the game-ending Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank infinite mill loop, or run away with card advantage via Bolas's Citadel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Curse of Verbosity
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Espers to Magicite
  • 1 Evacuation
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extravagant Replication
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Neutralize
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Out of Time
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Starfall Invocation
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 1 Sunlit Marsh
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
  • 1 Yahenni's Expertise
  • 1 Zur the Enchanter