Commander

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Global commander stats

All Esper commanders Featured in Final Fantasy

4629 Wins

9157 Losses

Overview

Summary

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed is a Magic: The Gathering commander tracked across 13,947 recorded Playgroup games, winning 33% of them (4629–9157) at an Elo of 1,717, ranking #39 globally.

Wins average 10 turns, with 18203 damage dealt and 0.69 player kills per game on average.

Last full refresh 11 Sep 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 33% win rate across 13947 recorded Playgroup games (4629 wins, 9157 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?

4,473 decks list Y'shtola, Night's Blessed as their commander on Playgroup, of which 3,004 have played at least one recorded game.

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

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Global rank

Wins by turn (avg.)

Elo rating

1717

Trend

Global Elo trend

Trend

Commander popularity trend

Averages

Misc. stats

Average damage per game 18203

Average commander damage per game 3

Average poison counters given per game 2

Average kills per game 0.69

Average turn length 5 minutes

No. decks for this commander 4473

No. decks with at least one game for this commander 3004

No. games played with this commander 13947

Total hours played about 1 year

Community

Top 5 public decks

Rank	Elo	User	Games	Wins	Winrate
1	1670	Josh	12	10	83 %
2	1666	Profanamadres	14	11	79 %
3	1647	Th3MadMango	18	8	50 %
4	1642	Drakorex	14	8	57 %
5	1625	Chuckles	15	8	53 %

Outcomes

How does this commander win?

When Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins, 53.88% of wins come via non combat damage across tracked games with a recorded win condition.

Non Combat Damage

53.88%

Combat

30.96%

Alternative

7.49%

Combo

3.68%

Commander Damage

2.72%

Poison

0.72%

Mill

0.54%

Avg win turn 9.8 based on 4749 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.

+9.9 pp

Top card: Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
1	Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit 126 games	+9.9 pp	126
2	Hengegate Pathway // Mistgate Pathway 87 games	+8.3 pp	87
3	Arcane Signet 2,235 games	+7.4 pp	2,235
4	Teferi's Ageless Insight 119 games	+7.2 pp	119
5	Midnight Clock 70 games	+6.6 pp	70
6	Blind Obedience 334 games	+6.5 pp	334
7	High Fae Trickster 264 games	+5.5 pp	264
8	Generous Gift 341 games	+5.5 pp	341
9	Mindsplice Apparatus 94 games	+5.1 pp	94
10	Massacre 80 games	+4.4 pp	80

Show 5 more (ranks 11-15)

#	Card	Lift Win-rate lift	Games
11	Meticulous Archive 200 games	+4.3 pp	200
12	Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive 283 games	+3.9 pp	283
13	Clever Concealment 69 games	+3.9 pp	69
14	Misleading Signpost 133 games	+3.6 pp	133
15	Cyclonic Rift 433 games	+3.4 pp	433

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 38.31% of games from position 1 and 25.0% from position 5 across tracked games.

Seat 1

38.31% n=4161

Seat 2

33.35% n=4121

Seat 3

30.05% n=3378

Seat 4

28.9% n=2187

Seat 5

25.0% n=328

Seat 6

30.77% n=52

Opening hands

Do mulligans hurt this commander?

Across tracked games, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins 32.58% after 0 mulligans and 0.0% after 6 mulligans.

0 mulligans

32.58% n=4029

1 mulligan

32.82% n=2474

2 mulligans

27.18% n=791

3 mulligans

28.15% n=238

4 mulligans

21.82% n=55

5 mulligans

28.57% n=14

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 3.72/5 on average, across 9585 self-reports.

3.72 / 5

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Opponent salt

When Y'shtola, Night's Blessed wins, opponents flag the game as salty 68.8% of the time across 4768 tracked wins.

68.8 \%

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.