Gruul by user6908163

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Gruul aggressive stompy deck built around Bello, Bard of the Brambles. Bello turns non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments with mana value 4 or greater into 4/4 Elemental creatures with indestructible, haste, and combat-damage card draw during your turn. Dense low-cost ramp accelerates Bello onto the board by Turn 3, followed by a continuous curve of high-impact 4+ CMC permanents starting on Turn 4. The deck rapidly compounds pressure by pairing these animated beaters with damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation, Gratuitous Violence, and Unnatural Growth, alongside card draw engines like Guardian Project and Greater Good. Because the animated permanents revert to non-creature cards on opponents' turns and possess indestructible on your own turn, the board is naturally resistant to sorcery-speed creature sweepers. The deck closes games reliably by Turn 7 through overwhelming trample and double-strike combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Giggling Skitterspike
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Nylea, God of the Hunt
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overlord of the Boilerbilges
  • 1 Path of Discovery
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Pyreswipe Hawk
  • 1 Raging Ravine
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rockfall Vale
  • 1 Rolling Hamsphere
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider Manifestation
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 The Dominion Bracelet
  • 1 The Peregrine Dynamo
  • 1 Thickest in the Thicket
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Threefold Thunderhulk
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Foothills