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Y'shtola, Night's Blessed Commander Deck

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed rewards casting high-cost noncreature spells by pinging all opponents for 2 life and drawing cards, making a permission-heavy suite of counterspells, removal, and tutors serve double duty as both control tools and a consistent drain engine. The deck accelerates this life-loss pressure through enchantments like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Exquisite Blood that punish opponents for drawing cards or losing life, while Smothering Tithe and Revel in Riches convert opponent activity into resources. The primary win condition is the Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank combo, which creates an infinite loop of milling and life loss once Ascension is fully charged — a threshold Y'shtola's repeated pings help reach quickly.

Decklist

• Baral, Chief of Compliance
• Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• Faerie Mastermind
• Grand Abolisher
• Jin-Gitaxias // The Great Synthesis
• Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Mother of Runes
• Orcish Bowmasters
• Sakashima the Impostor
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Snapcaster Mage
• Spark Double
• Talion, the Kindly Lord
• Tataru Taru
• Teferi, Time Raveler
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Anguished Unmaking
• Counterspell
• Cyclonic Rift
• Dark Ritual
• Deadly Rollick
• Disallow
• Dismember
• Dovin's Veto
• Enlightened Tutor
• Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• Fierce Guardianship
• Inkshield
• Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• Mystical Tutor
• Rewind
• Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• Snuff Out
• Swan Song
• Teferi's Protection
• Unwind
• Void Rend
• Avatar's Wrath
• Demonic Tutor
• Exsanguinate
• Quantum Misalignment
• Toxic Deluge
• Arcane Signet
• Bolas's Citadel
• Grafted Exoskeleton
• Mindcrank
• Relic of Legends
• Sol Ring
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Talisman of Progress
• The One Ring
• Black Market Connections
• Bloodchief Ascension
• Curiosity
• Exquisite Blood
• Ghostly Prison
• Helm of the Ghastlord
• Mystic Remora
• Phyresis
• Propaganda
• Revel in Riches
• Smothering Tithe
• Adarkar Wastes
• Bojuka Bog
• Caves of Koilos
• Choked Estuary
• City of Brass
• Command Tower
• Deserted Beach
• Drowned Catacomb
• Exotic Orchard
• Fetid Heath
• Floodfarm Verge
• Glacial Fortress
• Gloomlake Verge
• Godless Shrine
• Great Hall of the Biblioplex
• Hallowed Fountain
• Isolated Chapel
• Mana Confluence
• Morphic Pool
• Path of Ancestry
• Plaza of Heroes
• Raffine's Tower
• Reliquary Tower
• Sea of Clouds
• Shattered Sanctum
• Shipwreck Marsh
• Starting Town
• Sunken Ruins
• Undercity Sewers
• Underground River
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Vault of Champions
• Watery Grave
• Enduring Tenacity
• Irenicus's Vile Duplication