Animated Army by pcmurtha

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a aggressive Gruul stompy deck led by 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 creature with haste and combat-damage card draw during your turn. The list leverages heavy 1-2 CMC ramp to deploy Bello on Turn 3 and begin slamming 4+ CMC value engines on Turn 4. Because these permanents stop being creatures during opponents' turns, they naturally dodge sorcery-speed creature sweepers while punching through blockers and drawing cards during your combat. The deck scales aggressively into lethal damage using damage multipliers such as Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and Fiery Emancipation. While highly resilient against combat damage and board wipes, the deck relies closely on Bello to animate its board and runs a light reactive interaction suite.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Asceticism
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
• 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Cinder Glade
• 1 Collective Inferno
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Copperline Gorge
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Decimate
• 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
• 1 Esika's Chariot
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Explore
• 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Emancipation
• 9 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Cave
• 1 Game Trail
• 1 Garruk's Packleader
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
• 1 Gilded Lotus
• 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
• 1 Glorious Sunrise
• 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
• 1 Gratuitous Violence
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Gruul Signet
• 1 Gruul Turf
• 1 Gruul War Chant
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Hedron Archive
• 1 Helm of the Host
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Kodama of the East Tree
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Molten Echoes
• 1 Mossfire Valley
• 1 Mosswort Bridge
• 8 Mountain
• 1 Nature's Will
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path of Discovery
• 1 Primeval Bounty
• 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
• 1 Raging Ravine
• 1 Raiding Schemes
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rolling Hamsphere
• 1 Rootbound Crag
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sanctum Weaver
• 1 Sheltered Thicket
• 1 Sight of the Scalelords
• 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starstorm
• 1 Sunbird's Invocation
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Talisman of Impulse
• 1 Temple of Abandon
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Thickest in the Thicket
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Trailtracker Scout
• 1 Tranquil Thicket
• 1 Unnatural Growth
• 1 Wandertale Mentor
• 1 Warstorm Surge
• 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
• 1 Wooded Ridgeline