I could make a Betor deck by Hilboughton

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is an aristocrats and reanimation strategy led by Betor, Ancestor's Voice. The deck leverages life-loss and lifegain triggers to grow creatures and reanimate fallen permanents every end step. During the early turns, it establishes land drops and mana ramp before deploying self-mill, card draw, and sacrifice outlets. In the mid-game, Betor generates substantial board advantage by recycling key utility creatures and building large threats. The deck closes games through multiple overlapping avenues: an infinite token loop using Witherbloom, the Balancer and Sprout Swarm, a persist recursion combo using Kitchen Finks or Puppeteer Clique with Thunderous Velocipede and Viscera Seer, explosive turns powered by Bolas's Citadel, or wide combat attacks buffed by Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root. Robust interaction and protective spells like Veil of Summer ensure resilience across competitive multiplayer pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Angel of Indemnity
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blech, Loafing Pest
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blossoming Sands
  • 1 Bogwater Lumaret
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Dredger's Insight
  • 1 Eccentric Pestfinder // Turn Stones
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eumidian Hatchery
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Forlorn Flats
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Gohn, Town of Ruin
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kitchen Finks
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Nazar, the Velvet Fang
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Processor
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ruthless Lawbringer
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sprout Swarm
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Wandering Emperor
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderous Velocipede
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Town Greeter
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trudge Garden
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 World Shaper