Racoon in the Car by Drunki

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Gruul "animated permanents" midrange deck built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Nearly every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater becomes a 4/4 Elemental with indestructible, haste, and a combat-damage draw trigger. Vehicles are the standout beneficiaries: Esika's Chariot, Skysovereign, Consul Flagship, and Nautiloid Ship attack without ever needing to be crewed, while still triggering their own abilities. The deck ramps early, slams Bello, then chains attacks into card draw and damage multipliers. The primary path to victory is an explosive combat turn powered by Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, Berserkers' Onslaught, and an extra combat from Balthier and Fran. There are no infinite combos; the kill comes from an overwhelming, often one-turn, wave of 8/8 hasty indestructible attackers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Akroma's Memorial
  • 1 Alien Invasion
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Balthier and Fran
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Canoptek Spyder
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cybership
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fire-Lit Thicket
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hoard Hauler
  • 1 Intrepid Stablemaster
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 N'Yami-Class Mother Ship
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Oviya, Automech Artisan
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Smuggler's Buggy
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Staff of Nin
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Surgehacker Mech
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Thunderhawk Gunship
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Unwinding Clock
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Weatherlight