Bello Ciao v2 by Jonnyreco26

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, transforming expensive non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into aggressive combat engines. During your turn, Bello turns every permanent with mana value 4 or greater into an indestructible 4/4 Elemental with haste that draws a card on combat connection. Supported by twelve low-mana ramp pieces, the deck quickly curves into Bello and deploys high-impact enchantments ahead of schedule. The strategy pivots around compounding card draw and damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation, Unnatural Growth, and Berserkers' Onslaught to threaten lethal damage while drawing multiple cards per turn. Built-in timing advantages make the board resilient, as animated permanents revert to non-creature artifacts and enchantments during opponents' turns, dodging sorcery-speed creature wipes. Protected by cheap interaction like Deflecting Swat and Heroic Intervention, the deck steadily overwhelms the table with resilient combat pressure and consistent resource generation, aiming to eliminate opponents by turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elephant Grass
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heat Stroke
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Raiding Schemes
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth