Trash panda by Arkillo81

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul mid-power combat engine centered on Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns every non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater into a 4/4 Elemental creature with indestructible, haste, and a card-draw combat trigger during your turn. The deck accelerates through green ramp spells and low-cost rocks on early turns, establishes Bello on Turn 3, and begins deploying high-cost utility permanents on Turn 4. Because these permanents cease being creatures on opposing turns, they naturally dodge conventional sorcery-speed creature sweepers while attacking safely through blockers on your own turn. Over the mid-game, damage multipliers like Collective Inferno and trample enablers like Garruk's Uprising scale the board into lethal combat steps that eliminate opponents by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Champion of the Path
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Court of Embereth
  • 1 Creeping Renaissance
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elvish Regrower
  • 1 Enchantress's Presence
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 20 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Siege
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Genesis Wave
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Guttural Response
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Herald of the Pantheon
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Jhoira's Familiar
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kimoyo Beads
  • 1 Klothys, God of Destiny
  • 1 Leyline of Abundance
  • 1 Leyline of Combustion
  • 1 Leyline of Lifeforce
  • 1 Leyline of Vitality
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 N'Yami-Class Mother Ship
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Planetarium of Wan Shi Tong
  • 1 Prismatic Undercurrents
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Shuri's Fabricator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stump Stomp // Burnwillow Clearing
  • 1 Take Out the Trash
  • 1 The Immortal Sun
  • 1 The Vision
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tifa's Limit Break
  • 1 Vibranium Mining Mech
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Zuri, Warrior of Wakanda