That's Alive Now by AndroidMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Gruul stompy strategy commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into a 4/4 Elemental with indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw during your turn. The list utilizes dense 2-CMC ramp to curve directly into Bello on Turn 3, followed by a steady chain of high-impact 4+ CMC permanents starting on Turn 4. Because these permanents cease being creatures on opposing turns and gain indestructible on your own, they effortlessly dodge sorcery-speed creature sweepers and enable asymmetric board clears using cards like Blasphemous Act. The deck accelerates its clock on Turns 5 and 6 using damage multipliers like Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Berserkers' Onslaught to trample over defenses and eliminate the table within one to two attack steps. Its main vulnerability lies in Bello's fragility to instant-speed spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 March of the World Ooze
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Pawpatch Recruit
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 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 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline