Captain Trash Panda by AccusedJ

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul animation stompy strategy commanded by Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns passive 4+ mana value non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into 4/4 Elemental creatures with haste, indestructible, and combat-damage card draw during your turn. The deck accelerates through dense 1-2 CMC ramp pieces like Fanatic of Rhonas, Farseek, and Sol Ring, deploying Bello on Turn 3 and immediately dropping high-impact 4-drops on Turn 4. Once assembled, permanents like Hedron Archive, Esika's Chariot, and Outpost Siege swing immediately without fear of combat damage, drawing fresh cards on hit. Lethality escalates rapidly on Turn 5 through damage multipliers such as Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Berserkers' Onslaught, turning modest 4/4s into lethal beaters that eliminate opponents across two response cycles. While the deck possesses explosive offense and durable attackers on its own turn, it remains vulnerable to instant-speed removal targeting Bello and mass exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evercoat Ursine
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jade Seedstones // Jadeheart Attendant
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Prosperous Bandit
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rhythm of the Wild
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Roadside Reliquary
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Mightstone and Weakstone
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels