Chainsmoker Cat - Terminal Stage 3 by Boxer29

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed runs an Esper spellslinger-control game: every noncreature spell feeds Y'shtola's drain, Papalymo's ping, and Circle of Power tokens, while countermagic and prison effects hold the table. The deck wins by chaining those spells into card advantage, then converting the engine into a lethal Exsanguinate. The primary kill line is the Valley Floodcaller + Retraction Helix + Sol Ring loop, which makes infinite mana and casts Exsanguinate for a one-shot. Displacer Kitten and Teferi give a secondary value loop, and Bolas's Citadel offers a top-deck backup. No hidden commander: Ishai is only a defensive roleplayer in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 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 Circle of Power
  • 1 Cleansing Nova
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker
  • 3 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 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Observed Stasis
  • 1 Papalymo Totolymo
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Permission Denied
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Prairie Stream
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skycloud Expanse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 4 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 Transpose
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed