Kin to All by SailorSmithsonian

Format: Commander

Creator: SailorSmithsonian

Commander: Betor, Kin to All

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan toughness-matters midrange strategy commanded by Betor, Kin to All. The deck leverages low-power, high-toughness creatures to assemble an impregnable defense that rapidly converts into card advantage and game-ending life loss. Early turns focus on ramping into defenders such as Wall of Omens and Overgrown Battlement, deploying Betor on Turn 4 to start drawing extra cards at 10 total toughness. On Turn 5, large toughness anchors like The Walls of Ba Sing Se or stat doublers push the board past the 40-toughness threshold, halving each opponent's life total while untapping the entire team for defense. Combat enablers such as Doran, the Siege Tower and Assault Formation convert huge defensive stats into massive offensive swings to eliminate opponents on Turn 6. Asymmetric sweepers like Slaughter the Strong wipe opposing boards while leaving friendly walls untouched.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brave the Sands
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Huatli, the Sun's Heart
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Rammas Echor, Ancient Shield
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wound Reflection
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus