Raccoon no longer play with giant toys anymore :( by user6818156

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Gruul "everything becomes a 4/4" deck helmed by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. The plan is to ramp into Bello early, then deploy every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater, turning them into 4/4 Elemental creatures with indestructible, haste, and a combat-damage draw trigger. The deck runs a massive pile of such permanents - Gratuitous Violence, Unnatural Growth, Warstorm Surge, Sunbird's Invocation, Bedlam, and many vehicles - so that each one is both a value engine and an immediate attacker. Wins come through overwhelming combat damage, often doubled by Gratuitous Violence or Berserkers' Onslaught, with Bedlam making creatures unblockable. There are no infinite combos; the deck relies entirely on its board-state pressure and card-advantage engine.

Decklist (98 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aspect of Mongoose
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boompile
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Leyline of Punishment
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untethered Express
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wondrous Crucible
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels