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 spell-slinger control deck that turns every noncreature spell into drain, card draw, or both. The primary plan is to establish Y'shtola alongside payoffs like Papalymo, Transpose token, and G'raha Tia, then bury opponents in incremental life loss while using countermagic and efficient removal to stay ahead. The deck's true finisher is Aetherflux Reservoir, which either gains enough life through spell-chaining or goes infinite with Bolas's Citadel and Sensei's Divining Top. A secondary combo of Valley Floodcaller + Retraction Helix + Sol Ring offers a compact kill. G'raha Tia acts as an unofficial commander, producing a board of giant tokens.

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 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 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 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed