Animated Army by SlyRaccoon84

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Bello, Bard of the Brambles turns every 4+ mana non-equipment artifact and non-aura enchantment into a 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elemental that draws a card on combat damage. The deck accelerates to Bello, then deploys high-mana enchantments and artifacts to attack, draw cards, and chain into more payoffs. Secondary wins come from creature-token swarm and direct damage, and the strongest shortcut is the Kodama of the East Tree + Gruul Turf + Rampaging Baloths loop, which needs Warstorm Surge or Greater Good to actually finish. The mana base is slow, but Bello's combat draws keep the engine fed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 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 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fog
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Forgotten Cave
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 2 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 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
  • 2 Starstorm
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 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 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline