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Nightblessed Drain Control

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed{W}{U}{B}

by Mithic 100 cards ≈ $124.78 2 Updated
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Decklist · 100 cards · 88 unique

Commander 1

Creatures 11

Instants 20

Sorceries 15

Artifacts 10

Enchantments 6

Lands 37

Strategy notes

Nightblessed Drain Control is an Esper (white/blue/black) Commander control deck built around life-drain and attrition. It slows the game with removal, board wipes, taxes, and counters like Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, Wrath of God, and Counterspell, while drawing cards and ramping to stay ahead.

Its main synergies come from drain/payoff creatures such as Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Marauding Blight-Priest, Cliffhaven Vampire, Kambal, and Pontiff of Blight, turning life gain and extort into steady damage. Big finishers like Exsanguinate, Debt to the Deathless, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, and Approach of the Second Sun give it strong closing power, often draining the whole table at once. Overall, it wins by controlling the board, grinding value, and finishing opponents with mass life-drain combos and inevitability.

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