Magical Trash by user5545811

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul midrange strategy led by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. The game plan revolves around casting non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater. During your turn, Bello turns these utility permanents into 4/4 Elemental creatures with indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw. The deck leverages dense 2-CMC ramp to deploy Bello on Turn 3 and immediately begin animating high-cost permanents on Turn 4. Because these permanents stop being creatures on opponents' turns, they naturally dodge sorcery-speed creature sweepers. The deck establishes critical board pressure by Turn 6, attacking with multiple indestructible beaters while refilling its hand. However, the entire engine relies on Bello remaining on the battlefield. Without built-in protection or low-cost defensive spells, Bello is vulnerable to spot removal. The deck lacks nonland tutors and combo finishes, closing games around Turn 9 through sustained combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Additive Evolution
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Court of Ire
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Encroaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grothama, All-Devouring
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 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 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 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