Y'shtola, Night's Blessed card art

Scion and Drain

Esper

Commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

100 cards. No tracked games yet.

How it has actually done

These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.

Games played 0
Wins 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
MMR — No rated games yet.

Combos in this deck

2 combos · 2 infinite. These come from Commander Spellbook, which only knows the ones somebody has written up, so this deck can hold more than these and never fewer.

INFINITE Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank

Infinite mill · Near-infinite lifegain · Near-infinite lifegain triggers · Near-infinite lifeloss · How it works →

INFINITE Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose + Exquisite Blood

Infinite lifegain triggers · Infinite lifeloss · Infinite lifegain · Also here: Exquisite Blood + Enduring Tenacity · How it works →

Bracket 4: Optimized

This is a floor, read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.

Game Changers 12
Tutors 5
Fast mana 2 Sol Ring is excluded because it's in precons.
Extra turns 0

Running 4 stax pieces. See what stax means.

  • 12 Game Changers — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
  • 12 Game Changers, past the three Bracket 3 allows

What it's built out of

Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.

Slot by slot: 3 slots are outside their band, 6 inside
Slot In the deck Target Verdict
Lands 37 37 On target
Ramp 17 10 7 over
Card advantage 12 10 On target
Spot removal 8 8 On target
Board wipes 1 3 2 short
Creatures 14 28 14 short
Recursion 3 3 On target
Protection 1 3 On target
Tutors 5 2 On target
Artifacts 12 — No target
Enchantments 11 — No target
Instants 22 — No target
Sorceries 4 — No target
Planeswalkers 1 — No target
Counterspells 8 — No target
Graveyard hate 1 — No target
Token makers 3 — No target
Stax pieces 4 — No target

Mana curve

Average mana value 2.63 across 63 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.

  • 0-1 13
  • 2 17
  • 3 18
  • 4 11
  • 5 3
  • 6 1
  • 7+ 0

The decklist

100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.

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Graveyard Hate 1

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Commander
1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Deck
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Anguished Unmaking
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Arcane Signet
1 Archmage Emeritus
1 Bloodchief Ascension
1 Bolas's Citadel
1 Buried Ruin
1 Command Tower
1 Counterspell
1 Curiosity
1 Cyclonic Rift
1 Dark Ritual
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Deadly Rollick
1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Deserted Beach
1 Desolate Mire
1 Dismember
1 Dovin's Veto
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
1 Enduring Tenacity
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Exquisite Blood
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fetid Heath
1 Fierce Guardianship
1 Flooded Strand
1 Flusterstorm
1 Force of Will
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Godless Shrine
1 Grand Abolisher
1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Helm of the Ghastlord
1 Island
1 Island
1 Island
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
1 Mindcrank
1 Mnemonic Betrayal
1 Mystic Remora
1 Mystical Tutor
1 Necropotence
1 Norn's Annex
1 Ophidian Eye
1 Papalymo Totolymo
1 Path of Ancestry
2 Plains
1 Plains
1 Plains
1 Polluted Delta
1 Prairie Stream
1 Propaganda
1 Relic of Legends
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Rhystic Study
1 Sea of Clouds
1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
1 Silence
1 Skycloud Expanse
1 Smothering Tithe
1 Snuff Out
1 Sol Ring
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Sunken Ruins
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Swamp
1 Swamp
2 Swamp
1 Swan Song
1 Swords to Plowshares
1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Talisman of Progress
1 Tataru Taru
1 Teferi's Protection
1 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Thought Vessel
1 Undermine
1 Unwind
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Vault of Champions
1 Vindicate
1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
1 Void Rend
1 Watery Grave
1 Wishclaw Talisman

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