New Untitled Deck by Mrmontgomery

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan midrange deck is commanded by Betor, Ancestor's Voice, turning life fluctuations into battlefield dominance. The game plan leverages life-payment enablers such as Sylvan Library, Black Market Connections, and painlands to trigger Betor's end-step reanimation ability, cheating high-impact creatures into play. Simultaneously, lifegain engines powered by soul sisters, lifelink attackers, and drain staples like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Kokusho, the Evening Star distribute massive +1/+1 counters and drain opponents. The deck achieves assembly around Turn 4, building toward a Turn 6 onset where explosive devotion swings or team-wide pump effects from Archangel of Thune present lethal threats. It steadily eliminates the table by Turn 8 through combined combat pressure and drain triggers from Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Dina, Soul Steeper. Supported by premium spot removal, flexible sweepers, and resilient graveyard recovery, the deck excels in long, attrition-heavy multiplayer games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cavalier of Thorns
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Knight of Autumn
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Retreat to Kazandu
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Willowdusk, Essence Seer
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery