Master Betor by cp12

Format: Commander

Creator: cp12

Commander: Betor, Kin to All

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is helmed by Betor, Kin to All, transforming high-toughness defenders and creatures into engines of card advantage, vigilance, and table-wide life loss. The early turns focus on developing mana and deploying high-toughness walls like Overgrown Battlement and Wall of Blossoms. Once Betor, Kin to All enters the battlefield, the deck easily crosses the 10-toughness threshold for card draw and the 20-toughness mark to untap blockers every turn. To win, the deck scales up to 40 toughness to trigger Betor's life-halving ability, which instantly knocks out the table when paired with Bloodletter of Aclazotz or Wound Reflection. Alternatively, the deck can attack using 'butt-strike' enablers like Felothar the Steadfast, Assault Formation, and Bedrock Tortoise, delivering lethal damage while maintaining total defense.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arbor Adherent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assault Formation
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Bedrock Tortoise
  • 1 Betor, Kin to All
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carven Caryatid
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crystal Barricade
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Doran, Besieged by Time
  • 1 Dragonlord Dromoka
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fecund Greenshell
  • 1 Felothar the Steadfast
  • 1 Fertile Ground
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaws of Defeat
  • 1 Last March of the Ents
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nethroi, Apex of Death
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Overgrown Battlement
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Selesnya Signet
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Slaughter the Strong
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Sterling Grove
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 The Kingpin of Crime
  • 1 Three Tree Rootweaver
  • 1 Tooth and Nail
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Transdimensional Bovine
  • 1 Tree of Perdition
  • 1 Tree of Redemption
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wall of Omens
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Wave of Reckoning
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wound Reflection