Chainsmoker Cat - Terminal Stage 3 by Boxer29

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed pilots an Esper control/value deck that converts nearly every noncreature spell into life, damage, and cards. The primary plan is to protect Y'shtola and win with Aetherflux Reservoir or Bolas's Citadel. Papalymo, Kambal, and Mai multiply the drain triggers, while Alisaie/Alphinaud and Lyse Hext discount spells to enable chains. The commander is not a combat threat; her role is a repeatable engine that draws at end step once any player has lost 4+ life. The deck also carries a strong stack interaction suite and a hidden partner package in Alisaie and Alphinaud, making it a long-game control deck with a compact artifact finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blue Mage's Cane
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Krile Baldesion
  • 1 Lavinia, Azorius Renegade
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mockingbird
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tataru Taru
  • 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed