I'll swing at you with my 4/4 haste, indestructible, elemental! by user5153555

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Bello is a Gruul value-aggro deck whose commander turns every 4+ mana non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment into a hasty, indestructible 4/4 that draws a card on combat damage. The primary plan is to cast Bello early, follow with one or two high-cost permanents, and convert their attack triggers into a flood of cards and damage. The supporting plan uses damage doublers, double strike, and anthem effects to close in a single combat. Sunbird's Invocation, Primeval Bounty, and Esika's Chariot provide extra value and bodies. There is no hidden commander; Xenagos acts as a secondary finisher. Bello is both engine and enabler; if he is absent or removed, the deck's core strategy effectively stops.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Aspect of Mongoose
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Bombard
  • 1 Boompile
  • 1 Broken Wings
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Court of Bounty
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Echoing Assault
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Hull Breach
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Street Riot
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Regalia
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Tormenting Voice
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wondrous Crucible
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels