Animated Army Upgraded by Zhuzhi05

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Gruul stompy deck helmed by Bello, Bard of the Brambles that transforms high-mana-value non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into 4/4 Elemental creatures with indestructible, haste, and a combat-damage draw trigger. The strategy is to ramp into Bello early, then deploy 4-cost-or-greater enchantments and artifacts that become immediate attackers and card-draw engines. Pressure is multiplied by damage doublers like Gratuitous Violence and board-wide pumps such as Unnatural Growth. Secondary threats include Ghalta, Primal Hunger and token-generating permanents like Esika's Chariot. The deck aims to overwhelm opponents through sustained combat advantage rather than infinite combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bombadil's Song
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prosperous Bandit
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sight of the Scalelords
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Teapot Slinger
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline