Cat Scratch Fever by Tphetsipho

Format: Commander

Commander: Bast, Panther Goddess

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Selesnya deck combines an aggressive go-wide token strategy with compact creature-based infinite combos. Led by Bast, Panther Goddess, the deck quickly builds a critical mass of creatures using low-cost generators like Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, Ocelot Pride, and Skrelv's Hive. Bast turns any attack into a massive single-target strike by granting +X/+X based on total creature count. In parallel, the deck can assemble two-card infinite combos such as Rosie Cotton of South Lane or Cathars' Crusade paired with Scurry Oak, Herd Baloth, or Basking Broodscale, generating infinite tokens and arbitrarily large creatures. Robust card advantage engines like Toski, Bearer of Secrets and Caretaker's Talent keep the hand full, while defensive spells such as Heroic Intervention and Grand Crescendo safeguard the army against sweepers. The deck closes games around Turn 6 through overwhelming trample damage, flying overrun via Moonshaker Cavalry, or an unblockable token swarm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Bast, Panther Goddess
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caretaker's Talent
  • 1 Cathars' Crusade
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dollmaker's Shop // Porcelain Gallery
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gathering Place
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Herd Baloth
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mercy Killing
  • 1 Mighty Mutanimals
  • 1 Moogles' Valor
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Perch Protection
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Rhys the Redeemed
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Shroofus Sproutsire
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Storm, Queen of Wakanda
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 United Front
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath