Betor, Kin to All
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon
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.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BGW
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $20.86
- EDHREC rank
- #3448
Betor, Kin to All is a five-mana 5/5 that turns every creature you control into a copy of any other creature you control for combat — a repeatable, on-board doubling effect that scales violently with large or ability-dense creatures. Bloodletter of Aclazotz in the same deck means every doubled lifelink creature also drains; pair it with Felothar the Steadfast and the engine is essentially self-sustaining.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Felothar the Steadfast
Felothar the Steadfast rewards you for having creatures with diverse abilities, and Betor, Kin to All lets every creature in the attack become a copy of your best threat — turning a board of midsized creatures into an army of your most dangerous piece at once.
Doran, Besieged by Time
Doran, Besieged by Time cares about toughness as a resource, and Betor, Kin to All lets you copy your highest-toughness creature across the entire attacking force — one enormous toughness creature becomes a full board of them in a single swing.
The Ur-Dragon
The Ur-Dragon decks already run the most powerful individual Dragons in the format, and Betor, Kin to All turns every Dragon in the attack into a copy of whichever one has the best trigger — mass enters-the-battlefield replication before the creatures even connect.
Doran, the Siege Tower
Doran, the Siege Tower flips the damage assignment so toughness matters in combat, and Betor, Kin to All copies your highest-toughness attacker across the board — a strategy that already wants redundancy on its best stat now gets it for free every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Betor, Kin to All lives — the effect is too slow and too reliant on a board state to compete in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where games rarely reach a stabilized mid-game with multiple creatures in play. In Standard it's technically castable but occupies an awkward five-mana slot where the format's threats are already closing games rather than setting up combat tricks. The card is legal in Oathbreaker as well, though the smaller game size limits how often you'll have the board presence to maximize the copy effect. Competitive constructed formats simply won't give you the time; Betor, Kin to All is a Commander card through and through.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Betor, Kin to AllAstarion, the Decadent
Near-infinite lifeloss; Infinite lifeloss for target opponent
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Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
There's no clean one-for-one replacement for what Betor, Kin to All does, but Mirrorweave covers similar ground — it turns all creatures into a copy of one target creature until end of turn at instant speed for four mana, often at under $1. The trade-off is that Mirrorweave hits all creatures including opponents' and is a one-shot spell rather than a repeatable combat ability, so you lose both the selectivity and the sustained pressure Betor provides.
Price Context
Current price
$20.86 premium tier
At $20.86, Betor, Kin to All sits in the premium tier — justified for a card that's both a commander and a unique effect with no direct functional reprint. New set releases can push this price down temporarily, but the combination of commander-legal uniqueness and a high inclusion rate in Felothar decks gives it staying power at this range.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.