Budget Cat Control ($100 Yshtola) by isjavi

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Y'shtola, Night's Blessed leads an Esper control and combo shell designed to generate steady card advantage and life swings while dominating the stack. The deck controls the game pace using efficient counterspells, targeted removal, and disruptive locks like Narset, Parter of Veils paired with Windfall. It closes games through precise combo lines, such as generating infinite mana and cast triggers with Valley Floodcaller, Retraction Helix, and Basalt Monolith, which allows Y'shtola to burn all opponents to zero. Alternatively, the deck can exile its entire library using Divining Witch to secure an immediate win with Laboratory Maniac.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Calamity's Wake
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Dimir Machinations
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dispel
  • 1 Divining Witch
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forensic Gadgeteer
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lose Focus
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystical Dispute
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Retraction Helix
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Scour for Scrap
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trophy Mage
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpectedly Absent
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vanishing Verse
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Weathered Runestone
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed