B3: Bello by user6708625

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Gruul deck is built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles, turning every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into a 4/4 elemental creature with indestructible, haste, and a combat-damage draw trigger. The strategy is to ramp aggressively, deploy a critical mass of these high-CMC permanents, then chain extra combat steps and damage doublers to overwhelm opponents in a single turn. Key win conditions include the infinite-combat engine of Nature's Will/Sword of Feast and Famine plus Aggravated Assault, and using Gratuitous Violence or Berserkers' Onslaught to turn a wide board of 4/4s into lethal damage. The deck also packs strong card-draw enchantments and explosive mana from Mana Reflection and Nyxbloom Ancient, but relies heavily on Bello to make its permanents function as threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Benefactor's Draught
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 15 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Grim Reaper's Sprint
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Invasion of Shandalar // Leyline Surge
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Leyline Immersion
  • 1 Leyline of Abundance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mana Reflection
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Relentless Assault
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Ur-Golem's Eye
  • 1 Virtue of Strength // Garenbrig Growth
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World at War
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth