Pain is Gain v1.3 (copy) by Shmoore

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 70

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power competitive Abzan combo-stax engine helmed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice. The primary game plan seeks to assemble one of two compact, deterministic infinite combos: Heliod, Sun-Crowned paired with Walking Ballista for infinite ping damage, or Exquisite Blood / Bloodthirsty Conqueror paired with Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose / Enduring Tenacity for infinite life drain. The deck accelerates ahead of the table using dense 0-1 CMC mana rocks and dorks, while utilizing premier black and green tutors to achieve unmatched assembly consistency by Turn 4. Opponents are systematically constrained through asymmetric stax pieces like Linvala, Keeper of Silence, Blind Obedience, and Opposition Agent. When ready to close the game, proactive silence effects like Grand Abolisher, Silence, and Ranger-Captain of Eos eliminate opposing interaction windows, ensuring the infinite loops execute with zero response cycles. Extensive graveyard recursion and Betor's end-step reanimation provide rapid recovery against interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Auriok Champion
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Linvala, Keeper of Silence
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Spike Feeder
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tymna the Weaver
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will