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Betor - ABZAN LIFE IS RESOURCE
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Est deck cost: $1039.43
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Commander

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Betor, Ancestor's Voice

Flying, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, put a number of +1/+1 counters on up to one other target creature you control equal to the amount of life you gained this turn. Return up to one target creature card with mana value less than or equal to the amount of life you lost this turn from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Betor, Ancestor's Voice (tdc) 1

Commander

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (pwar) 79
Glissa Sunslayer

First strike, deathtouch Whenever Glissa Sunslayer deals combat damage to a player, choose one — • You draw a card and you lose 1 life. • Destroy target enchantment. • Remove up to three counters from target permanent.

Creature
Glissa Sunslayer (pone) 202p
Greater Good

Sacrifice a creature: Draw cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power, then discard three cards.

Enchantment
Greater Good (2xm) 170
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Inspiring Call

Draw a card for each creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it. Those creatures gain indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy them.)

Instant
Inspiring Call (pip) 203
Shamanic Revelation

Draw a card for each creature you control. Ferocious — You gain 4 life for each creature you control with power 4 or greater.

Sorcery
Shamanic Revelation (pfrf) 138
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246

Draw

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Mill

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Ripples of Undeath

At the beginning of your first main phase, mill three cards. Then you may pay {1} and 3 life. If you do, put a card from among those cards into your hand.

Enchantment
Ripples of Undeath (mh3) 107

Mill

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Recursion

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Celestine, the Living Saint

Flying, lifelink Healing Tears — At the beginning of your end step, return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield, where X is the amount of life you gained this turn.

Creature
Celestine, the Living Saint (40k) 10
Eerie Ultimatum

Return any number of permanent cards with different names from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Eerie Ultimatum (spg) 104
Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (p30a) 12
Evolution Witness

{1}{G}: Adapt 2. (If this creature has no +1/+1 counters on it, put two +1/+1 counters on it.) Whenever one or more +1/+1 counters are put on this creature, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Evolution Witness (mh3) 424
Sheoldred, Whispering One

Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.) At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Sheoldred, Whispering One (pnph) 73★
Six

Reach Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)

Creature
Six (mh3) 430
Tayam, Luminous Enigma

Each other creature you control enters with an additional vigilance counter on it. {3}, Remove three counters from among creatures you control: Mill three cards, then return a permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Creature
Tayam, Luminous Enigma (c20) 16
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (ths) 110

Recursion

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Tutor

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Birthing Pod

({G/P} can be paid with either {G} or 2 life.) {1}{G/P}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Search your library for a creature card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed creature's mana value, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Birthing Pod (nph) 104

Tutor

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Anthem

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Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite

Vigilance Other creatures you control get +2/+2. Creatures your opponents control get -2/-2.

Creature
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite (mul) 3

Anthem

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Finisher

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Overwhelming Stampede

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain trample and get +X/+X, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Sorcery
Overwhelming Stampede (ltc) 254

Finisher

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Protection

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Avacyn, Angel of Hope

Flying, vigilance, indestructible Other permanents you control have indestructible.

Creature
Avacyn, Angel of Hope (cmm) 14
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Saryth, the Viper's Fang

Other tapped creatures you control have deathtouch. Other untapped creatures you control have hexproof. {1}, {T}: Untap another target creature or land you control.

Creature
Saryth, the Viper's Fang (mid) 197
Sigarda, Font of Blessings

Flying Other permanents you control have hexproof. You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast Angel spells and Human spells from the top of your library.

Creature
Sigarda, Font of Blessings (mat) 47
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (psoi) 242
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (grn) 152
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 294
Dismember

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Target creature gets -5/-5 until end of turn.

Instant
Dismember (f12) 4
Ezuri's Predation

For each creature your opponents control, create a 4/4 green Phyrexian Beast creature token. Each of those tokens fights a different one of those creatures.

Sorcery
Ezuri's Predation (dsc) 178
Krosan Grip

Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Krosan Grip (tsr) 214
Noxious Gearhulk

Menace When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.

Creature Artifact
Noxious Gearhulk (kld) 96
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (tsr) 366
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dsc) 106
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (ltc) 209

Removal

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Counters

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Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}{G}, {T}: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact Enchantment
Bow of Nylea (ths) 153
Dormant Grove

Enchantment
Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider (vow) 198Dormant Grove // Gnarled Grovestrider (vow) 198

Counters

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Land

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Brushland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Brushland (bro) 298
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (dmu) 378
City of Brass

Whenever this land becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 403
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 659
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (vow) 281
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (unf) 239
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 294
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (2x2) 406
Hushwood Verge

{T}: Add {G}. {T}: Add {W}. Activate only if you control a Forest or a Plains.

Land
Hushwood Verge (dsk) 332
Indatha Triome

({T}: Add {W}, {B}, or {G}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Indatha Triome (iko) 309
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (bro) 299
Lush Portico

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Lush Portico (mkm) 327
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (spg) 110
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 341
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (2x2) 409
Overgrown Farmland

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {G} or {W}.

Land
Overgrown Farmland (mid) 283
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (rvr) 296
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (cmm) 661
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 355
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (unf) 235
Selesnya Sanctuary

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {G}{W}.

Land
Selesnya Sanctuary (2x2) 411
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 330
Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 283
Shifting Woodland

This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest. {T}: Add {G}. Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

Land
Shifting Woodland (mh3) 357
Spymaster's Vault

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 358
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (unf) 237
Temple Garden

({T}: Add {G} or {W}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Temple Garden (rvr) 300
Underground Mortuary

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Underground Mortuary (mkm) 333
Undergrowth Stadium

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Undergrowth Stadium (cmm) 666
Vault of Champions

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmm) 667
Vault of the Archangel

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{W}{B}, {T}: Creatures you control gain deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Land
Vault of the Archangel (sld) 350
Verdant Catacombs

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Forest card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Verdant Catacombs (spg) 113
Windswept Heath

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Forest or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Windswept Heath (mh3) 360

Land

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Pump

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Trostani, Three Whispers

{1}{G}: Target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. {G/W}: Target creature gains vigilance until end of turn. {2}{W}: Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Creature
Trostani, Three Whispers (mkm) 238

Pump

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Sac Outlet

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Altar of Dementia

Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature's power.

Artifact
Altar of Dementia (brr) 3

Sac Outlet

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Creature

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Betor, Kin to All

Flying At the beginning of your end step, if creatures you control have total toughness 10 or greater, draw a card. Then if creatures you control have total toughness 20 or greater, untap each creature you control. Then if creatures you control have total toughness 40 or greater, each opponent loses half their life, rounded up.

Creature
Betor, Kin to All (tdm) 308

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Lifegain

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (brr) 65
Exquisite Blood

Whenever an opponent loses life, you gain that much life.

Enchantment
Exquisite Blood (lcc) 195
Heliod, Sun-Crowned

Indestructible As long as your devotion to white is less than five, Heliod isn't a creature. Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or enchantment you control. {1}{W}: Another target creature gains lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Heliod, Sun-Crowned (thb) 259
Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper

Menace Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you gain life equal to that creature's toughness. Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)

Creature
Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper (cmr) 519

Lifegain

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (p30m) 1P
Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color." {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Chromatic Lantern (brr) 10
Cultivate

Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Cultivate (pw23) 6
Defiler of Vigor

Trample As an additional cost to cast green permanent spells, you may pay 2 life. Those spells cost {G} less to cast if you paid life this way. This effect reduces only the amount of green mana you pay. Whenever you cast a green permanent spell, put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.

Creature
Defiler of Vigor (dmu) 412
Growing Rites of Itlimoc

Enchantment
Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun (xln) 191
Gyre Sage

Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.) {T}: Add {G} for each +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Gyre Sage (moc) 300
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth

({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.) Lifelink For each {B} in a cost, you may pay 2 life rather than pay that mana. Whenever you cast a black spell, put a +1/+1 counter on K'rrik.

Creature
K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth (mh3) 274
Nightshade Dryad

Deathtouch {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Nightshade Dryad (mh3) 163
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (plg24) 1
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds

Whenever another creature enters, its controller may draw a card if its power is greater than each other creature's power. {G}, {T}: Add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Creature
Selvala, Heart of the Wilds (cmm) 320
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (plg22) 1
Talisman of Hierarchy

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Hierarchy (h1r) 36
Talisman of Resilience

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Resilience (h1r) 37
Talisman of Unity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {G} or {W}. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Unity (sld) 1056
Wood Elves

When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Wood Elves (p30a) 5

Ramp

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Tokens

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Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (blc) 247
Wurmcoil Engine

Deathtouch, lifelink When this creature dies, create a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with deathtouch and a 3/3 colorless Phyrexian Wurm artifact creature token with lifelink.

Creature Artifact
Wurmcoil Engine (psom) 223★

Tokens

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Tokens & Extras

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Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token
Pest (tblc) 34
Phyrexian Beast

Creature Token
Phyrexian Beast (tcmm) 34
Shapeshifter

Changeling (This token is every creature type.)

Creature Token
Shapeshifter (tacr) 2
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tacr) 6
Wurm

Deathtouch

Creature Artifact Token
Wurm (t2xm) 29
Wurm

Lifelink

Creature Artifact Token
Wurm (t2xm) 30

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Deck Info

Deck stats

17 pips - 12 cards
26 mana - 25 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
32 pips - 22 cards
29 mana - 27 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 7 cards
47 pips - 35 cards
30 mana - 28 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
11 mana - 10 cards
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