Bello by Dacoz

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul aggro-engine list commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. The core game plan focuses on casting high-impact non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater. During your turn, Bello turns these permanents into 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elemental creatures that draw cards whenever they deal combat damage. Fast mana accelerators such as Sol Ring, Chrome Mox, and 1-CMC mana dorks let you deploy Bello on Turn 2 and immediately begin swinging with animated utility permanents on Turn 3. The deck scales its damage output using power doublers and triplers like Fiery Emancipation, City on Fire, and Unnatural Growth, alongside extra-combat threats like Port Razer and Aggravated Assault. It also features an opportunistic infinite combo finish using Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame or Molten Duplication. Highly resilient to damage-based sweepers on your turn, the deck applies relentless combat pressure while generating substantial card advantage.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Etali, Primal Conqueror // Etali, Primal Sickness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gauntlet of Power
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Port Razer
  • 1 Portal to Phyrexia
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Savage Ventmaw
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth