Cat Lady Deck by user8013281

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control and combo build commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Y'shtola's burn trigger to turn noncreature spells into lethal card advantage and table-wide attrition. By enchanting Y'shtola with Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or pairing her with Tandem Lookout, every noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater deals 2 damage to each opponent and draws 3 cards. The deck stalls opposing aggression using pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda, Ghostly Prison, and Norn's Annex, while disrupting threats through a versatile suite of instant-speed removal and countermagic. After drawing through the library, the deck secures victory with the two-card infinite combo of Exquisite Blood and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose (or Sanguine Bond), which drains all opponents from full life to zero in a single turn once initiated. Backup lines utilize sustained burn from Papalymo Totolymo and massive life swings from Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Circle of Power
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Landscape
  • 1 Cornered by Black Mages
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Esper Charm
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grasp of Fate
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Inquisitive Glimmer
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obscura Charm
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Perplex
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Stormscape Familiar
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vanishing
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed