Betor by user4066820

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Kin to All

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan lifegain and toughness midrange deck commanded by Betor, Kin to All. The strategy revolves around deploying durable, high-toughness creatures to trigger Betor's scaling end-step abilities. Reaching 10 toughness generates steady card advantage, 20 toughness grants pseudo-vigilance by untapping the team, and 40 toughness halves each opponent's life total. The deck leverages its lifegain synergies to fuel powerful payoffs like Felidar Sovereign, Aetherflux Reservoir-style drain engines, and high-devotion swings with Gray Merchant of Asphodel. To decisively close out games, the deck incorporates the compact infinite drain combination of Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond, Enduring Tenacity, or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. A robust interaction suite featuring Anguished Unmaking, Snuff Out, and Crux of Fate controls opposing threats, while Dragonlord Dromoka and Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar shield critical turns from enemy disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ardbert, Warrior of Darkness
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Beza, the Bounding Spring
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cecil, Dark Knight // Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
  • 1 Chocobo Kick
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Grand Coliseum
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hoarder's Greed
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lone Rider // It That Rides as One
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Origin of Metalbending
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rinoa, Angel Wing
  • 1 Rosa, Resolute White Mage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sami's Curiosity
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Season of Gathering
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Super-Adaptoid
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twilight Prophet