To Betor or Not to Betor by joshtgoad

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan midrange strategy commanded by Betor, Ancestor's Voice. It converts life swings into massive permanent board advantage through +1/+1 counters and recurring reanimation. In the early turns, the deck develops mana and establishes life manipulation engines with cards like Sylvan Library, Black Market Connections, and Soul Warden. Casting Betor on turn 4 immediately triggers end-step value, buffing key attackers and reanimating creatures lost earlier. During the midgame, the deck multiplies counters through Kami of Whispered Hopes and Nykthos Paragon, while weaponizing large bodies through Giggling Skitterspike, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, or direct drain from Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Defiling Daemogoth. Comprehensive protection spells including Teferi's Protection, Mother of Runes, and turn-silencing effects like Dragonlord Dromoka ensure the deck safely closes out the game across turns 6 to 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Atomize
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Bebop, Skull & Crossbones
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Biophagus
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Defiling Daemogoth
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Ancient
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Giver of Runes
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Hollowmurk Siege
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kutzil, Malamet Exemplar
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Lush Portico
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Matt Murdock, Justice Seeker
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Moment of Reckoning
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Ouroboroid
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Rocksteady, Mutant Marauder
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shelinda, Yevon Acolyte
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Silverquill Charm
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth