Pedicure, Manicure, Kitty-Cat Claws 🙌 by Zwill57

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed commands an Esper spellslinger control and life-drain engine. The deck slows down opponents using tax effects and countermagic while steadily drawing cards through spells and combat deterrents. Y'shtola turns mid-sized noncreature spells into symmetrical damage and life gain, triggering end step card draw and fueling life-loss payoffs. The primary path to victory is assembling an infinite life-drain loop pairing Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Sanguine Bond, Defiant Bloodlord, or Enduring Tenacity. Alternatively, massive mana sinks like Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate close out extended games.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
• 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Blind Obedience
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Curiosity
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Defacing Duskmage // Vandal's Edit
• 1 Defiant Bloodlord
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Deserted Beach
• 1 Dismember
• 1 Eclipsed Steppe
• 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
• 1 Enduring Tenacity
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Geist of Saint Thalia
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
• 6 Island
• 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Lyse Hext
• 1 Mai, Scornful Striker
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Negate
• 1 Papalymo Totolymo
• 2 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Queza, Augur of Agonies
• 1 Raffine's Tower
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Risky Shortcut
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Sea of Clouds
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Snap
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Supreme Verdict
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Tataru Taru
• 1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1 Thalia, the Survivor
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Transpose
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vindicate
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed