Rocket by efrarc

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Bello, Bard of the Brambles "animate your own permanents" deck. Nineteen mana-value-4-plus non-Aura enchantments and non-Equipment artifacts become 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elemental attackers on your turn, each drawing a card when it connects. The deck combines Gruul stompy with an enchantress-style engine: Outpost Siege, Greater Good, Garruk's Uprising, and Thickest in the Thicket keep the hand full while Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Unnatural Growth turn the 4/4 army into one-shot lethal damage. A parallel beatdown channel - Etali, Primal Storm, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, Rampaging Baloths, Kodama of the East Tree - and a Treasure subtheme (Bootleggers' Stash, Alchemist's Talent, Rain of Riches) fuel explosive mid-game turns. Bello is the entire engine: cheap at 3 mana, but the enchantment/artifact plan is largely inert without him. There is no clean infinite combo; the deck wins through overwhelming, synchronized combat.

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 Bootleggers' Stash
• 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
• 1 Burnished Hart
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 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 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 Grothama, All-Devouring
• 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 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 Tendershoot Dryad
• 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