Hello Bello by Slimchev007

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Gruul stompy deck is commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, focusing on converting high-cost utility artifacts and enchantments into lethal 4/4 indestructible attackers during its own turn. With a robust 1-2 CMC ramp suite, the deck consistently deploys Bello on Turn 2 or 3 and follows up with heavy 4+ CMC permanents like Hedron Archive, Esika's Chariot, and Rain of Riches. These animated permanents draw cards whenever they deal combat damage to players, establishing an aggressive card advantage and damage engine. The deck scales into the midgame using devastating damage multipliers like Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Fiery Emancipation, turning 4/4s into massive game-ending threats. While the list includes an asymmetric permanent lock via Karn, the Great Creator and Mycosynth Lattice, it primarily wins through relentless indestructible combat pressure. Its main vulnerabilities lie in Bello's fragility to instant-speed spot removal and a light interactive suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Anvilwrought Raptor
  • 1 Artificer's Dragon
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Beavers
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Interdimensional Web Watch
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 1 Karn, the Great Creator
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Krang, Utrom Warlord
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maximum Carnage
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mycosynth Lattice
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 1 Perennial Behemoth
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampaging Monument
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby, Daring Tracker
  • 1 Savage Mansion
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Secluded Starforge
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Stimulus Package
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mending of Dominaria
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Trash for Treasure
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil