Betor Ouch & Value by H3racr055

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Abzan lifegain/lifeloss reanimator is helmed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice, a commander that converts life gained into +1/+1 counters and life lost into graveyard recursion. The deck is built around a symmetrical life-swing engine: pain lands, Phyrexian Arena, Dark Tutelage, and Toxic Deluge bleed life to feed Betor's reanimation, while Essence Warden, Jaddi Offshoot, Rhox Faithmender, and Wall of Reverence balloon the life total to pump creatures and trigger drain. The primary win conditions are Sanguine Bond and Defiant Bloodlord converting every lifegain event into opponent life loss, an Aetherflux Reservoir burst (ideally alongside Bolas's Citadel), and combat damage from large flyers like Massacre Wurm, Teneb, the Harvester, and Blood Baron of Vizkopa. A robust reanimation package - Priest of Fell Rites, Doomed Necromancer, Reanimate - provides redundancy. The deck plays a slow, grindy midrange game, out-valuing opponents through life-total manipulation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accomplished Alchemist
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Ainok Wayfarer
  • 1 Amalia Benavides Aguirre
  • 1 Angel of the Ruins
  • 1 Archon of Justice
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Centaur Garden
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Death Grasp
  • 1 Defiant Bloodlord
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Eccentric Farmer
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Harvester of Souls
  • 1 Hashep Oasis
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nazar, the Velvet Fang
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nomad Stadium
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Nyx-Fleece Ram
  • 1 Oriq Loremage
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pine Barrens
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Radiant Fountain
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Saffi Eriksdotter
  • 1 Salt Flats
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sapling of Colfenor
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Selesnya Sanctuary
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shefet Dunes
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Starlit Soothsayer
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Teneb, the Harvester
  • 1 Thragtusk
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trostani, Selesnya's Voice
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Venomcrawler
  • 1 Wall of Reverence
  • 1 Winds of Rath