Lifegain by test_account_09

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

Betor, Ancestor's Voice leads an Abzan lifegain, aristocrats, and reanimation midrange deck that balances life as an aggressive resource. The deck uses self-inflicted life loss from painlands, shocklands, Toxic Deluge, and Sylvan Library to fuel Betor's end-step reanimation trigger, while converting lifegain into counters. A solid mana base with 8 low-cost ramp pieces enables a Turn 4 commander deployment, establishing a recurring engine that grinds value through reanimation targets like Archon of Cruelty and Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The deck transitions into a decisive win via compact infinite combos, primarily pairing Exquisite Blood or Bloodthirsty Conqueror with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity, as well as Protean Hulk death triggers finding Warren Soultrader, Blood Artist, and Gravecrawler. While the deck features premier removal in Swords to Plowshares and Assassin's Trophy, its absence of counterspells and moderate tutor density leave it vulnerable to fast stack combos and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Aerith, Last Ancient
  • 1 Ajani Resolute
  • 1 Ancient Cornucopia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Hashep Oasis
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Liliana the Faultless
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lyra, Archangel of Dawn
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solarium Sentry
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unflinching Hortimancer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat