Commander

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Global commander stats

All Esper commanders Featured in Final Fantasy

4849 Wins

9637 Losses

Overview

Summary

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 14,750 recorded Playgroup games, winning 32% of them (4849–9637) at an Elo of 1,591, ranking #627 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 17576 damage dealt and 0.68 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 1 Oct 2026

Sources Scryfall · EDHREC · JSON API

Frequently Asked

What is Y'shtola, Night's Blessed's win rate?

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed has a 32% win rate across 14750 recorded Playgroup games (4849 wins, 9637 losses).

How long do winning games with Y'shtola, Night's Blessed take?

Wins with Y'shtola, Night's Blessed take on average 10 turns. Total tracked play time: about 1 year.

How many decks use Y'shtola, Night's Blessed?

4,790 decks list Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as their commander on Playgroup, of which 3,212 have played at least one recorded game.

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed Magic: The Gathering commander card art

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Global rank

627

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1591

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 17576

Average commander damage per game 27095

Average poison counters given per game 2

Average kills per game 0.68

Average turn length 4 minutes

No. decks for this commander 4790

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 3212

No. games played with this commander 14750

Total hours played about 1 year

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1696	Profanamadres	17	13	81 %
2	1670	Josh	12	10	83 %
3	1642	Drakorex	14	8	57 %
4	1631	Jeffpool	24	13	54 %
5	1625	Chuckles	15	8	53 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins, 53.82% of wins come via non combat damage across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Non Combat Damage

53.82%

Combat

31.07%

Alternative

7.37%

Combo

3.84%

Commander Damage

2.66%

Poison

0.72%

Mill

0.52%

Avg win turn 9.9 based on 4974 wins with recorded turn counts

Measured

Staples that win games for Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Cards that raise this deck's measured win rate the most, compared with Y'shtola, Night's Blessed decks that leave them out.

+6.8 pp

Top card: Blind Obedience

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Blind Obedience 372 games	+6.8 pp	372
2	Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway 105 games	+6.6 pp	105
3	High Fae Trickster 287 games	+6.2 pp	287
4	Arcane Signet 2,568 games	+6.1 pp	2,568
5	Midnight Clock 103 games	+5.4 pp	103
6	Generous Gift 395 games	+5.1 pp	395
7	Amazing Acrobatics 40 games	+4.7 pp	40
8	Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit 168 games	+4.6 pp	168
9	Clever Concealment 89 games	+3.9 pp	89
10	Inkshield 684 games	+3.3 pp	684

Show 5 more (ranks 11-15)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Teferi's Ageless Insight 168 games	+3.0 pp	168
12	Multiversal Recruitment 107 games	+3.0 pp	107
13	Force of Despair 199 games	+2.8 pp	199
14	Misleading Signpost 145 games	+2.2 pp	145
15	Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive 342 games	+2.1 pp	342

Measured win-rate lift against decks on the same commander without the card, ranked by the 95% lower bound. How this is measured

Table position

Does seating order matter?

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins 38.04% of games from position 1 and 25.29% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

38.04% n=4423

Seat 2

33.12% n=4380

Seat 3

29.51% n=3553

Seat 4

28.76% n=2288

Seat 5

25.29% n=340

Seat 6

30.77% n=52

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins 32.28% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

32.28% n=4225

1 mulligan

32.21% n=2611

2 mulligans

26.37% n=842

3 mulligans

27.38% n=252

4 mulligans

22.03% n=59

5 mulligans

25.0% n=16

6 mulligans

0.0% n=4

Player reports

How do players rate games with this commander?

Pilot rating

Pilots rate their own games with Y'shtola, Night's Blessed 3.73/5 on average, across 9981 self-reports.

3.73 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins, opponents flag the game as salty 69.5% of the time across 4989 tracked wins.

69.5 \%

Head to head

Best and worst matchups

Opposing commanders with at least ten tracked games against Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. Pairs with fewer than 25 games are shown in italics; treat those as suggestive, not statistical.