Betor's Ass Draining by user7200961

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Kin to All

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Abzan deck centers on Betor, Kin to All, transforming defensive high-toughness creatures into potent card-advantage engines, life-halving threats, and crushing combat attackers. In the early game, low-cost defenders like Overgrown Battlement, Wall of Blossoms, and Sylvan Caryatid establish heavy mana acceleration and a solid defensive wall. Once Betor enters on turn 4, crossing the 10-toughness threshold supplies reliable end-step card draw, soon expanding to untap your entire defensive line at 20 toughness. The deck leverages asymmetric sweepers such as Slaughter the Strong and Wave of Reckoning to decimate opposing boards while leaving its 0-power defenders untouched. Toughness-assigning enablers like Doran, the Siege Tower, Felothar the Steadfast, and Assault Formation convert huge bodies like Tree of Perdition and Ancient Adamantoise into lethal combat threats. Supported by Aura Shards and turn-protection from Jennifer Walters, the deck systematically drains opponents' life totals and closes games cleanly by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flumph
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gluntch, the Bestower
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Razorverge Thicket
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Smile at Death
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stalwart Shield-Bearers
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vine Trellis
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Junk
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wall of Roots
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery