Card
Y'shtola Rhul
Mana cost {4}{U}{U}
Legendary Creature — Cat Druid 3/5
At the beginning of your end step, exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Then if it's the first end step of the turn, there is an additional end step after this step.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 49 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · FIN · #86
- Cheapest printing
- €4.37
- EDHREC salt
- 0.32
- Color identity
- Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
49 known combos.
- The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk + Spark Double + Y'shtola Rhul
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk + Y'shtola Rhul + Chameleon, Master of Disguise
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook - The Legend of Kuruk // Avatar Kuruk + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces + Y'shtola Rhul
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
Additional end steps don't come with any other additional steps (such as cleanup). Damage marked on permanents won't be removed until you actually get to the cleanup step (which will happen after your second end step), and "until end of turn" and "this turn" effects won't end until the cleanup step either. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
Abilities that trigger "at the beginning of [your/the] end step" will trigger at the beginning of each of your additional end steps as well. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If the target creature is an illegal target as Y'shtola Rhul's ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. There won't be an additional end step. - 2025-06-06 · Wizards of the Coast
If a permanent with an ability that triggers "at the beginning of the end step" enters during your first end step, that ability won't trigger during that end step, but it will trigger during your second end step. Likewise, if a delayed triggered ability that triggers "at the beginning of the next end step" is created during your first end step, that ability will trigger during your second end step.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast