Animated Army slightly better by Temellchen

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 17

Deck overview

This is a Gruul high-curve deck built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Its plan is to ramp, deploy the commander, and turn large non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into hasty 4/4 indestructible creatures. Combat damage from those permanents draws cards, allowing the deck to keep adding threats. Path of Discovery, Garruk's Uprising, Eidolon of Blossoms, and Thickest in the Thicket improve its value, while Unnatural Growth, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Gratuitous Violence increase combat output. The deck has solid casual ramp and broad permanent removal, but it lacks tutors, stack interaction, compact finishing power, and a deterministic combo. Its ordinary assembly is around turn 6, with a credible must-answer board around turn 8. It can overwhelm an unprepared table, but it usually needs several combat steps and cannot reliably convert its board into a three-player kill on a fixed clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Hoard Hauler
  • 1 Jolene, Plundering Pugilist
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline