Betor reanimate by QuakesBor

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Abzan life-manipulation deck helmed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice turns life gain into +1/+1 counters and life loss into reanimation, creating a resilient value engine. The primary win condition is the infinite life-drain loop between Bloodthirsty Conqueror and either Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Enduring Tenacity - any source of life gain triggers the chain, killing all opponents. Backup plans include overwhelming combat damage from huge lifelinkers (Serra Ascendant, Exemplar of Light), Bolas's Citadel storm, and mass recursion via Eerie Ultimatum. The mana base is well-tuned with 12 fetch/dual lands and a low average CMC, but the deck lacks true tutors, relying on abundant card draw (Sylvan Library, Dark Confidant, Exemplar of Light) to find its pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aerith Gainsborough
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cleric Class
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Hatred
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rodolf Duskbringer
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Vizkopa Guildmage
  • 1 Voice of the Blessed
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery