Y'shtola, Night's Blessed rewards casting high-cost noncreature spells by draining opponents for 2 life each time, and draws cards whenever any player loses 4 or more life in a turn, creating a self-sustaining engine of damage and card advantage. The deck floods the board with expensive instants, sorceries, and enchantments to repeatedly trigger Y'shtola's drain effect, while supplementing that pressure with life-loss payoffs and board wipes to keep opponents off balance. Exsanguinate serves as the primary finisher, leveraging a robust mana base to eliminate all opponents at once with a single massive life drain that also feeds Y'shtola's draw trigger.

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed decklist

• Alisaie Leveilleur
• Alphinaud Leveilleur
• Arcane Sanctum
• Arcane Signet
• Archaeomancer's Map
• Ash Barrens
• Baleful Strix
• Choked Estuary
• Circle of Power
• Cleansing Nova
• Command Tower
• Contaminated Aquifer
• Crux of Fate
• Cut a Deal
• Dancer's Chakrams
• Darkwater Catacombs
• Demolition Field
• Desolate Mire
• Dig Through Time
• Drowned Catacomb
• Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• Estinien Varlineau
• Evolving Wilds
• Exotic Orchard
• Exsanguinate
• Eye of Nidhogg
• Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• Fetid Heath
• Final Judgment
• G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
• Glacial Fortress
• Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
• Hraesvelgr of the First Brood
• Idyllic Beachfront
• 3× Island
• Isolated Chapel
• Lethal Scheme
• Lyse Hext
• Murderous Rider
• Observed Stasis
• Papalymo Totolymo
• Path of Ancestry
• 4× Plains
• Port Town
• Prairie Stream
• Propaganda
• Reaper's Scythe
• Relic of Legends
• Rite of Replication
• Scavenger Grounds
• Shineshadow Snarl
• Skycloud Expanse
• Snuff Out
• Sol Ring
• Sublime Epiphany
• Sunken Hollow
• Sunken Ruins
• Sunlit Marsh
• 4× Swamp
• Swords to Plowshares
• Syphon Mind
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Talisman of Progress
• Thancred Waters
• Thought Vessel
• Torrential Gearhulk
• Transpose
• Underground River
• Vindicate
• Void Rend
• White Auracite
• Temple of the False God
• Ghostly Prison
• Rhystic Study
• Blue Mage's Cane
• Authority of the Consuls
• Risky Research
• Mortify
• Blight Rot
• Ajani's Response
• Syncopate
• Quick Study
• Chase Inspiration
• Mana Sculpt
• Generous Gift
• Unfathomable Truths
• Krile Baldesion
• Archmage Emeritus
• Tataru Taru
• Kambal, Consul of Allocation