Dirty little racoon by user3780628

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles, turning non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater into 4/4 indestructible, hasty Elementals during your turn. It accelerates early with 1-2 CMC ramp spells into a Turn 3 Bello, then curves out with high-impact utility permanents like Hedron Archive, Esika's Chariot, and Nature's Will. These permanents generate immediate combat pressure and card draw while dodging creature sweepers on opposing turns. The midgame scales rapidly through damage multipliers like Gratuitous Violence, Unnatural Growth, and Fiery Emancipation, overwhelming the table with trample and double strike damage. A secondary infinite combat combo exists via Aggravated Assault and Nature's Will. While Bello is a focal point for removal, the deck's high density of resilient enchantments provides strong compounding advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 7 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 Grumgully, the Generous
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Leyline of Punishment
  • 1 Llanowar Loamspeaker
  • 1 Mana Echoes
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Moraug, Fury of Akoum
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Rage Reflection
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampaging Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sight of the Scalelords
  • 1 Snake Pit
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth