Bello Upgraded by Tonybark420

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Gruul midrange combat deck built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles, who turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4+ into a 4/4 Elemental with indestructible, haste, and a card-draw trigger on combat damage. The plan is to ramp into Bello, flood the board with high-MV artifacts (especially Vehicles) and enchantments, then convert that pile into a hasty, resilient attacker swarm. Damage multipliers like Gratuitous Violence, Unnatural Growth, and Berserkers' Onslaught push the animated permanents into lethal range quickly, while Warstorm Surge and attack-trigger Vehicles (Reaver Titan, Knight Paladin) add non-combat reach. There are no infinite combo lines; the deck wins through combat inevitability and incremental value. Bello is the central engine-without him the artifacts and enchantments stop being creatures-but the 99 still contains enough real creatures and Vehicles to stumble forward.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Defend the Rider
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fog
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Gruul War Plow
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Knight Paladin
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Raiding Schemes
  • 1 Reaver Titan
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sight of the Scalelords
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Smuggler's Buggy
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wyll's Reversal
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth