MasterBetor by user7796522

Format: Commander

Commander: Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a three-color lifegain-and-+1/+1-counters midrange deck helmed by Betor, Ancestor's Voice. The commander's end-step trigger rewards both life gained and life lost, enabling a board that grows counters while recurring value creatures from the graveyard. The primary win condition is the infinite life-drain loop between Bloodthirsty Conqueror and any of Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, or Enduring Tenacity - once active, each life-gain trigger drains an opponent, which re-triggers the Conqueror, repeating until all opponents are dead. Secondary wins include a massive Exsanguinate (fueled by life gain), commander beats with lifelink and counters, and Bolas's Citadel to chain spells off the top. The deck is a value engine that can pivot between combat and combo, held together by a modest recursion and tutor suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel of Thune
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Betor, Ancestor's Voice
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Children of Korlis
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Doom Whisperer
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eerie Ultimatum
  • 1 El Dorado Sarcophagus
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
  • 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Moseo, Vein's New Dean
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Fell Rites
  • 1 Professor Dellian Fel
  • 1 Radiant Grove
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scheming Silvertongue // Sign in Blood
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Serra Ascendant
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Warden
  • 1 Staff of Compleation
  • 1 Sunbond
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Synchronized Charge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Valentin, Dean of the Vein // Lisette, Dean of the Root
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yathan Tombguard