Betor Abzan EDH by cooldadjake

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is an Abzan life-gain/life-loss value deck built around Betor, Ancestor's Voice, who converts life gained into +1/+1 counters and life lost into end-step reanimation. The primary win is the Exquisite Blood + Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose / Enduring Tenacity infinite drain loop, kicked off by any lifelink hit. The backup plan is combat inevitability from lifelink beaters like Serra Ascendant, Archangel of Thune, Avacyn, Angel of Hope, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater, backed by a deep reanimation package (Reanimate, Entomb, Buried Alive, Celestine, the Living Saint, Moseo, Vein's New Dean). The deck aggressively pays life - Bolas's Citadel, Dark Confidant, Black Market Connections, fetch/shock lands - to feed Betor's reanimation and Vilis, Broker of Blood's draw, then wins with the drain loop or a massive lifelink swing.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Hope
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Branching Evolution
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Celestine, the Living Saint
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Stampede Tyrant
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gyre Sage
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Henneth Annûn
  • 1 Hunger of the Ancient One
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Kefka's Tower
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Dead Marshes
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexilus Praetor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 We Want . . . A SHRUBBERY!
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Windswept Heath