Betor Schmetor by Timtam

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a grindy Abzan (W/B/G) value engine helmed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice, built around the symmetrical life-gain/life-loss axis. The deck aims to gain life through lifelink, ETB triggers, and sacrifice effects, then leverage Betor's end-step trigger to distribute +1/+1 counters and reanimate creatures with mana value the life lost that turn. The primary win condition is incremental drain via Dina, Soul Steeper, Indulging Patrician, Cruel Celebrant, and Defiling Daemogoth, supplemented by combat damage from oversized creatures. The deck lacks fast combos or explosive mana, instead winning through sustained value, repeated reanimation, and life-total attrition across multiple turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Baron Rivalry
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faeburrow Elder
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hardened Scales
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician