Betor Remastered

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck leverages Betor, Ancestor's Voice to convert life fluctuation into massive board dominance. Early turns establish mana acceleration through green ramp spells and low-cost dorks. By turn 4, the deck deploys Betor alongside controlled life-loss enablers like Sylvan Library, Black Market Connections, or pain lands. Betor's dual triggers weaponize life changes, reanimating impactful creatures from the graveyard equal to life lost while buffing board threats with +1/+1 counters equal to life gained. Heavy reanimation targets such as Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider, Dragonlord Dromoka, and Kokusho, the Evening Star present immediate must-answer clocks on turn 5. The deck defends its execution with Silence-style creatures like Grand Abolisher and broad protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Dawn's Truce. Combat modifiers including Garruk's Uprising and True Conviction close out the table by turn 7 through overwhelming, evasive trample damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Charm
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Atrocious Experiment
  • 1 Awe Strike
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blessed Hippogriff // Tyr's Blessing
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ojer Kaslem, Deepest Growth // Temple of Cultivation
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Obliterator
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Primal Rage
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saltcrusted Steppe
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tomb Fortress
  • 1 True Conviction
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Yosei, the Morning Star