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Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Gruul stompy engine built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into an indestructible 4/4 Elemental with haste and combat-damage card draw during your turn. The deck accelerates through dense 1-2 CMC ramp to cast Bello on Turn 2 or 3, then drops 4-drop value engines like The One Ring, Esika's Chariot, and Nautiloid Ship on Turn 4. On Turn 5, damage multipliers such as Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Unnatural Growth elevate the animated permanents into lethal combat threats while refilling your hand with each hit. Because the permanents revert to noncreatures on opposing turns, the deck inherently dodges sorcery-speed creature board wipes. The strategy finishes games on Turn 7 through overwhelming combat damage aided by evasion cards like Bedlam and Thunderhawk Gunship.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Dragonfire Blade
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Flameshadow Conjuring
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goliath Truck
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hoard Hauler
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Magmatic Galleon
  • 1 March of the World Ooze
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 N'Yami-Class Mother Ship
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Raucous Audience
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Smuggler's Buggy
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills