Scions & Spellcraft (FINAL FANTASY XIV)
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- Commander
- Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $67.89
- Grade
- A
How it grades
Fundamentals 96/100. Plays like Spellslinger and Tokens.
This reads as Spellslinger · Tokens, built around Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The spells are the deck: every instant and sorcery triggers payoffs (drain, tokens, copies, treasure), so chaining cheap cantrips is the game plan. Creature count stays low by design; protect the two or three payoff engines and the velocity does the rest. Y'shtola, Night's Blessed sits on the cEDH tier list, so the ceiling here is tournament-grade, and experienced tables will treat it that way. Its strongest fundamental is mana curve (32% of spells cost ≤2, 10% cost 6+); the first thing to tighten is land count: 37 lands. About 34 fits this curve for Spellslinger, with your cost reduction counted.
- A+Mana reliability
- B+Land count
- A+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- A+Card draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- AWin conditions
- ACard quality
- A+Legality & size
Where it falls short
- B+Land count37 lands. About 34 fits this curve for Spellslinger, with your cost reduction counted.
Strong on mana reliability, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
97 cards graded: A- 3, B+ 40, B 52, B- 1, C+ 1. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Made together, they take Scions & Spellcraft (FINAL FANTASY XIV) from A to A+.
CounterspellUU$4.28
In place of Sage's Nouliths: weakest slot in the deck (58/100)
Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' instant-and-sorcery payoff.
Dark RitualB$7.28
In place of Eye of Nidhogg: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
EDHREC Spellslinger staple. Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
BrainstormU$0.56
In place of Reaper's Scythe: weakest slot in the deck (60/100)
Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' instant-and-sorcery payoff.
Frantic Search2U$2.09
In place of Urianger Augurelt: weakest slot in the deck (61/100)
Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data. Feeds the commanders' instant-and-sorcery payoff.
Cyclonic Rift1U$39.16
In place of White Auracite: expensive for ramp: the help arrives late (61/100)
WotC game-changer. Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Welcoming Vampire2W$3.45
In place of Blue Mage's Cane: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Pays off your go-wide engine (25 producers). Fits the card-draw build players run with your commanders. Top-5% staple by play data.
Psychosis Crawler5$2.54
In place of Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise: weakest slot in the deck (62/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (17 producers). Pays off the commanders' card-draw plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
DispatchW$0.36
In place of Alisaie Leveilleur: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off your artifact engine (18 producers). Fuels your instant-and-sorcery payoffs (16 in deck). Top-5% staple by play data.
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse2BB$98.55
In place of Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off your card-draw engine (17 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Pays off the commanders' card-draw plan.
Soul WardenW$3.41
In place of Krile Baldesion: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off your token engine (12 producers). Fits the lifegain build players run with your commanders. Pays off your go-wide engine (25 producers).
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Decklist
Commander 1
Creatures 22
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Instants 8
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Sorceries 10
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Artifacts 16
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Enchantments 6
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Lands 37
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