Y'shtola, Parade of Cats - Clone Control by user8270655

Format: Commander

Commander: Y'shtola, Night's Blessed

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an Esper spellslinger control deck commanded by Y'shtola, Night's Blessed. It accelerates in the early turns using efficient mana rocks and cost reducers before resolving Y'shtola. The deck pairs Y'shtola with Curiosity-style enchantments or clone effects. Because Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, each qualifying spell triggers multiple card draws, rapid life gain, and end-step card advantage. The deck leverages this immense card velocity to fuel high-impact free interaction, defensive stax pieces, and asymmetric board wipes like The Battle of Bywater and Single Combat. It closes games by chaining noncreature spells, burning opponents out with cumulative commander triggers, and draining life totals through Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Talion, the Kindly Lord, and Bloodchief Ascension.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avatar's Wrath
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commandeer
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Helm of the Ghastlord
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lyse Hext
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quantum Misalignment
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rest in Peace
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sigil of Sleep
  • 1 Single Combat
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitary Confinement
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Tundra
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Valeria Richards, Precocious
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed