Big Butts by user5273827

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Kin to All

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan toughness-matters midrange strategy commanded by Betor, Kin to All. The game plan focuses on deploying high-toughness creatures and defender ramp pieces during the early turns to set up rapid board development. Once Betor enters the battlefield on turn 4, it provides immediate card draw and untaps all creatures during the end step as long as total toughness reaches 10 and 20. On turn 5, the deck pushes past 40 total toughness using massive bodies like Ancient Adamantoise or Unhallowed Phalanx, triggering Betor to halve every opponent's life total. The deck closes the game on turn 6 by attacking with creatures that assign combat damage equal to toughness through Doran, the Siege Tower or Ancient Lumberknot, or by doubling life loss with Bloodletter of Aclazotz. The deck benefits from natural resilience to damage-based sweepers and strong asymmetric board wipes, though it remains vulnerable to mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abzan Beastmaster
  • 1 Ancient Adamantoise
  • 1 Ancient Lumberknot
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Axebane Guardian
  • 1 Baldin, Century Herdmaster
  • 1 Barrensteppe Siege
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Behind the Scenes
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canopy Gargantuan
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Colfenor, the Last Yew
  • 1 Colossification
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Doran, the Siege Tower
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Great Forest Druid
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indomitable Ancients
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampart Architect
  • 1 Reunion of the House
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneskin
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 The Walls of Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Tower Defense
  • 1 Towering Titan
  • 1 Transdimensional Bovine
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Treefolk Umbra
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unhallowed Phalanx
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Weathered Sentinels
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zetalpa, Primal Dawn
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus