Roar by user5476627

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Abzan Commander deck is led by Betor, Ancestor's Voice, combining lifegain synergies, counter distribution, and creature reanimation with a deterministic infinite combo finish. The primary win condition centers on Heliod, Sun-Crowned and Walking Ballista: with Heliod in play, casting Ballista for four mana and granting it lifelink allows you to repeatedly remove counters for ping damage, gaining life, and triggering Heliod to replace the counters for infinite damage to all opponents. Robust proactive shielding from cards like Grand Abolisher, Voice of Victory, and Dragonlord Dromoka ensures that combo turns proceed without opposing instant-speed disruption. In the midgame, Sylvan Library and Haliya, Guided by Light maintain high card velocity, while Betor weaponizes life loss from lands and card draw into free end-step reanimation. Should the combo be compromised, independent backup routes including Felidar Sovereign's upkeep victory, Angel of Destiny triggers, and Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon's infect clock provide resilient paths to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel of Destiny
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Drix Fatemaker
  • 1 Earth Kingdom General
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Elenda, Saint of Dusk
  • 1 Emeritus of Truce // Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Get Lost
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grafted Exoskeleton
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Haliya, Guided by Light
  • 1 Hammer of Nazahn
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jenova, Ancient Calamity
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Luxknight Breacher
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Riot Control
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shriek Raptor
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Sunscorch Regent
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Vondam, the Lucent
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Temple of Plenty
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Seriema
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Ultimate Magic: Holy
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival