Bello, Bard of the Brambles by Thorn1911

Format: Commander

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bello is the animating engine of a Gruul permanent-based beatdown deck. The primary plan is to ramp to Bello by turns 2-3, then cast 4+ mana artifacts and enchantments, which become hasty, indestructible 4/4 Elementals that draw a card whenever they hit a player. Secondary paths use damage amplifiers - double strike, doubled power, triple damage, and ETB burn - to turn a small army into a one-turn kill. The deck has no hidden commander; every payoff is selected to be animated by Bello. The commander supplies both the army and its card draw, so keeping Bello on the battlefield is the central requirement.

Decklist (69 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Memorial
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cosmic Cube
• 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Esika's Chariot
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 8 Forest
• 1 Frontier Siege
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Gruul War Chant
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Karplusan Forest
• 1 Kessig Wolf Run
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Molten Echoes
• 5 Mountain
• 1 N'Yami-Class Mother Ship
• 1 Nature's Will
• 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Sight of the Scalelords
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Song of the Dryads
• 1 Spire Garden
• 1 Stomping Ground
• 1 Sunbird's Invocation
• 1 Taiga
• 1 The Earth King
• 1 The Great Henge
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Regalia
• 1 Thornspire Verge
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Training Compound
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth