Bello by user4847467

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck uses Bello, Bard of the Brambles to turn four-mana-or-greater artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into hasty, indestructible 4/4 Elementals during the controller's turn. Those attackers draw cards when they connect, creating a steady engine that supports further large permanents. Early mana creatures, Sol Ring, Ancient Tomb, and land-search spells make a turn-3 commander plausible, with an operational large permanent usually following on turn 4 or 5. The first serious threat is a growing attack engine rather than an immediate table kill. Payoffs such as Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, The Great Henge, and Warstorm Surge can raise the damage ceiling, but access is not deterministic and the deck normally needs several combat steps. Removal and protection are broad enough for ordinary Commander tables, but the deck has limited stack interaction and depends heavily on its commander. It is a general-power, battlecruiser-to-mid-power engine deck, not a cEDH list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Court of Ire
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Destiny Spinner
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elemental Bond
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Setessan Champion
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 The Akroan War
  • 1 The Elder Dragon War
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Huntsman's Redemption
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Weaver of Harmony
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills