Bello by user3686088

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Gruul aggro-enchantress deck is led by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, turning heavy 4+ mana value artifacts and enchantments into aggressive, indestructible 4/4 Elemental creatures on your turn. The game plan relies on rapid two-mana ramp to deploy Bello on turn three, followed by curve-topping noncreature permanents on turn four. These permanents immediately attack with haste and indestructible, drawing cards whenever they deal combat damage to keep your hand fully stocked. In the mid-game, damage multipliers like Gratuitous Violence, Unnatural Growth, and Berserkers' Onslaught turn your indestructible utility engines into lethal threats that can eliminate the table over two combat cycles. While the deck boasts immense combat pressure, recurring card draw, and natural resilience against sorcery-speed creature wipes, it remains vulnerable to instant-speed removal targeting Bello and mass noncreature exile. Standalone stompy threats like Etali, Primal Storm and Ghalta, Primal Hunger offer solid backup pressure if your commander is removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prosperous Bandit
  • 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 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Teapot Slinger
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 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