Bello again! by RockWallaby

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul combat and value engine piloted by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into a 4/4 Elemental creature with indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw during your turn. This unique static ability lets the deck curve out with high-impact utility cards like The One Ring, Hedron Archive, and Asceticism without sacrificing board presence or tempo. Because these permanents cease being creatures during opponents' turns, they naturally dodge sorcery-speed creature wipes like Wrath of God and Blasphemous Act. The deck accelerates rapidly through green land ramp, curve-topping into devastating damage doublers like Berserkers' Onslaught and Unnatural Growth. Massive card velocity keeps hands full of fresh threats and cheap protection spells, allowing the deck to continuously apply lethal pressure and close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aligned Hedron Network
  • 1 Anzrag, the Quake-Mole
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Benefactor's Draught
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Curse of Bounty
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Ezuri's Predation
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Grothama, All-Devouring
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Heat Stroke
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jubilation
  • 1 Keen-Eyed Curator
  • 1 Lignify
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Moment's Peace
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Roiling Canopy
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Rose, Cutthroat Raider
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Take Out the Trash
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Tribute to the World Tree
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vexing Shusher
  • 1 Vibrance
  • 1 Vitalize
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth