Bello by R3NEGADEUK

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Bello, Bard of the Brambles turns high-mana-value enchantments and artifacts into 4/4 hasty, indestructible draw engines. The deck ramps to Bello on turn 3, then deploys an enchantment-heavy battle plan: Doubling Season, Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Berserkers' Onslaught become an army that can kill all three opponents in one swing. Secondary paths use token production and big creatures such as Esika's Chariot, Primeval Bounty, and Ghalta if Bello is answered. There is no hidden commander; Bello's animation and draw trigger define every line. The main weakness is the deck's near-total dependence on Bello remaining on the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Galewind Moose
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giant-Man, Gargantuan Genius
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grothama, All-Devouring
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Muerra, Trash Tactician
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhino, Barreling Brute
  • 1 Rocksteady, Crash Courser
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sylvan Scavenging
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw