Bello by user4418342

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Gruul midrange combat deck helmed by Bello, Bard of the Brambles that animates expensive non-Equipment artifacts and non-Aura enchantments into hasty, indestructible 4/4 Elementals that draw cards on combat damage. The plan ramps hard, deploys high-MV rocks and enchantments, then casts Bello to turn the board into an evasive, self-drawing army. Damage multipliers (Fiery Emancipation, City on Fire, Gratuitous Violence, Unnatural Growth) and enablers like Bedlam convert those 4/4s into table-wide lethals. Secondary paths include ETB burn from Terror of the Peaks and Warstorm Surge, big independent beaters such as Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and value engines (Sunbird's Invocation, Chimil, the Inner Sun, Kodama of the East Tree). There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through overwhelming combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bedlam
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cosmic Cube
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Eidolon of Blossoms
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kessig Wolf Run
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Molten Echoes
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Forge
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sanctum Weaver
  • 1 Skitterbeam Battalion
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thornspire Verge
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Training Compound
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Foothills