Bello, Little Racoon bih by Brassmunkey

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Bello, Bard of the Brambles is the engine of a Gruul deck that turns high-mana-value artifacts and enchantments into 4/4 indestructible, hasty attackers that draw cards on contact. The primary plan is to ramp into Bello and play a steady stream of MV 4+ non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments, then swing with a growing squad of animated permanents. Card draw from the animated creatures keeps the board filling. Secondary paths rely on big green creatures like Ghalta, Etali, and Rampaging Baloths, plus damage-doubling effects such as Gratuitous Violence and Unnatural Growth. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built entirely around Bello's animation ability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Aligned Hedron Network
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Boompile
  • 1 Bootleggers' Stash
  • 1 Cactusfolk Sureshot
  • 1 Cascading Cataracts
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Connecting the Dots
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Doc Samson, Super Psychiatrist
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 13 Forest
  • 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 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Kodama of the West Tree
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lux Cannon
  • 1 Meteor Golem
  • 1 Mind's Eye
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Muerra, Trash Tactician
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Sapling Nursery
  • 1 Scampering Surveyor
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sisay's Ring
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spine of Ish Sah
  • 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
  • 1 Symmetry Matrix
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree Rootweaver
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw