UPGRADED Animated Army by user5249571

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul mid-range beatdown strategy commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. It weaponizes high-cost utility artifacts and enchantments by animating them into 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elementals during your turn that draw cards upon dealing combat damage. The game plan ramps aggressively on Turns 1 and 2, lands Bello on Turn 3, and begins deploying 4+ mana value permanents on Turn 4 to attack immediately and draw cards. The deck scales into the midgame with explosive damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation and Unnatural Growth, or cascade value engines like Wildsear, Scouring Maw. It can also achieve an infinite combat lockout using Aggravated Assault and Nature's Will. While Bello is a lightning rod for removal and the list lacks tutors, an extensive suite of 1-mana protection spells and heavy functional redundancy ensure resilient board development and rapid recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arachnogenesis
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fog
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Herald of the Pantheon
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Highland Forest
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Peerless Recycling
  • 1 Petrified Hamlet
  • 1 Rage Reflection
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rugged Highlands
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skarrg, the Rage Pits
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Slagwoods Bridge
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stranglehold
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline