Y'shtola, Night's Based

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed Commander Deck

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is the engine of this deck, which wins by repeatedly casting noncreature spells with mana value 3 or greater to deal incremental damage to all opponents while gaining life, drawing cards whenever those damage triggers push opponents to lose 4 or more life in a turn. The deck supports this gameplan with a wide suite of card draw, recursion, and cost reduction to keep the noncreature spells flowing, and includes creatures like Papalymo Totolymo and Emet-Selch of the Third Seat that further amplify life loss and enable casting spells from the graveyard to extend the damage chain. Mass removal, targeted interaction, and token generation from noncreature spells round out the strategy, keeping the board clear while Y'shtola steadily drains opponents into range of a finishing burst.

Decklist

• Alisaie Leveilleur
• Exotic Orchard
• Curiosity
• Archaeomancer's Map
• Archmage Emeritus
• Blue Mage's Cane
• Circle of Power
• Command Tower
• Cut a Deal
• Dig Through Time
• Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
• Into the Story
• 5× Island
• Lyse Hext
• Observed Stasis
• Papalymo Totolymo
• 3× Plains
• Reaper's Scythe
• Relic of Legends
• Snuff Out
• Sol Ring
• 3× Swamp
• Swords to Plowshares
• Tataru Taru
• Transpose
• Underground River
• Vindicate
• Void Rend
• White Auracite
• Frantic Search
• Bleachbone Verge
• Undercity Sewers
• Sea of Clouds
• Godless Shrine
• Morphic Pool
• Polluted Delta
• Alphinaud Leveilleur
• Adaptive Training Post
• Adarkar Wastes
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Black Mage's Rod
• Blitzball
• Bojuka Bog
• Collective Effort
• Cornered by Black Mages
• Decanter of Endless Water
• Deserted Beach
• Dismember
• Fight On!
• Flooded Strand
• Floodfarm Verge
• Gloomlake Verge
• Gogo, Master of Mimicry
• Hallowed Fountain
• Helm of the Ghastlord
• Judgment of Alexander
• Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• Legions to Ashes
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Marsh Flats
• Matoya, Archon Elder
• Meticulous Archive
• Mortify
• Ophidian Eye
• Path to Exile
• Raffine's Tower
• Rewind
• Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
• Secret Rendezvous
• Shattered Sanctum
• Shipwreck Marsh
• Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• Unwind
• Vault of Champions
• Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
• Watery Grave
• Xande, Dark Mage
• Arcane Signet
• Bender's Waterskin
• Cleansing Nova
• Crux of Fate
• Dancer's Chakrams
• Emet-Selch, Unsundered // Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
• High Fae Trickster
• Krile Baldesion
• Proft's Eidetic Memory
• Reliquary Tower
• Spirit Water Revival
• Stock Up
• Thought Vessel
• Wizard Class
• Y'shtola Rhul