Dat crazy cat lady! by user7557172

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 58

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper Spellslinger Control and Life-Drain Combo archetype commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. The primary game plan revolves around leveraging Y'shtola's passive triggers—dealing 2 damage to each opponent and gaining 2 life whenever a noncreature spell of mana value 3 or greater is cast, and drawing cards at end steps when 4 or more life is lost. The deck utilizes dense 2-CMC mana rocks and cost reducers to deploy Y'shtola on Turn 3, followed by high-impact engines like The One Ring, Rhystic Study, or Curiosity on Turn 4 to churn through the library while maintaining board control. An elite interactive suite featuring eight free spells, including Fierce Guardianship, Force of Will, and Deadly Rollick, protects the board state while disrupting opposing wins. The deck converts this resource superiority into a decisive finish via the two-card infinite combo of Enduring Tenacity and Exquisite Blood, or drains out the table through compounding attrition with Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Delney, Streetwise Lookout.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mystic Gate
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Norn's Annex
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Submerge
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed