Bello by lindseyb0813

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Bello, Bard of the Brambles turns expensive artifacts and enchantments into 4/4 Elementals with haste, indestructible, and combat-damage card draw. The deck ramps aggressively, then transforms mana rocks, value enchantments, and vehicles into an army of hasty 4/4s that accrue cards while attacking. Secondary lines use large creatures such as Ghalta, Primal Hunger and Etali, Primal Storm, plus damage doublers like Gratuitous Violence and Unnatural Growth to end games. The commander is the key engine; without it the deck's primary plan of animating noncreature permanents fails, leaving only a modest creature beatdown plan. No infinite combos exist; victory comes from sustained mid-combat assault.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blossoming Defense
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Brightcap Badger // Fungus Frolic
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Domri, Anarch of Bolas
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Grothama, All-Devouring
  • 1 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prosperous Bandit
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Stardew Valley
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Teapot Slinger
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 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 Wargling
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline