All in, no chips leftover by I3enadryl

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck executes an aggressive Gruul midrange beatdown strategy piloted by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. By leveraging a dense suite of two-mana ramp spells, the deck reliably deploys Bello on turn 3 and begins casting 4-plus mana value non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments on turn 4. Bello's static ability animates these bulky utility permanents into 4/4 Elementals featuring haste, indestructible, and combat damage card-draw abilities exclusively on your turn. Because these permanents cease to be creatures during opponents' turns, they naturally dodge conventional sorcery-speed creature board wipes like Blasphemous Act and Wrath of God. The deck converts this durable board presence into decisive wins on turns 5 through 7 using damage multipliers such as Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Fiery Emancipation, backed by trample granters like Garruk's Uprising. While highly resilient to creature sweepers, the strategy is vulnerable to targeted removal pointed at Bello and non-creature exile board wipes like Farewell.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Beastmaster Ascension
• 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
• 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bootleggers' Stash
• 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Decimate
• 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
• 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
• 1 Elemental Bond
• 1 End-Raze Forerunners
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Evercoat Ursine
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Empath
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 9 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Packleader
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
• 1 Gratuitous Violence
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Grothama, All-Devouring
• 1 Grumgully, the Generous
• 1 Gruul Signet
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hedron Archive
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Howling Mine
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kodama of the East Tree
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Overwhelming Stampede
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path of Discovery
• 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1 Primeval Bounty
• 1 Prosperous Bandit
• 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
• 1 Raging Ravine
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Rampaging Baloths
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starstorm
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Sunbird's Invocation
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Tranquil Thicket
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline