Magic Raccoon by JBob75

Format: Commander

Commander: Bello, Bard of the Brambles

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Gruul stompy deck is led by Bello, Bard of the Brambles, turning high-cost artifacts and enchantments into aggressive value engines. During your turn, each non-Equipment artifact and non-Aura enchantment with mana value 4 or greater becomes an indestructible, hasty 4/4 Elemental that draws a card upon dealing combat damage to a player. The deck leverages dense 1-to-2 CMC ramp to deploy Bello on Turn 3 and immediately begin animating heavy utility permanents on Turn 4. Damage doublers and triplers such as Unnatural Growth, Gratuitous Violence, and Fiery Emancipation rapidly scale combat damage into lethal threats by Turn 5. Because animated permanents revert to noncreature status on opponents' turns, the board is naturally immune to sorcery-speed creature sweepers. While vulnerable to instant removal targeting Bello, the deck maintains high redundancy with over thirty 4+ CMC permanents, ensuring consistent velocity and resilient mid-game card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Amber Prison
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bello, Bard of the Brambles
  • 1 Berserkers' Onslaught
  • 1 Bladegriff Prototype
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Canoptek Scarab Swarm
  • 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Copperline Gorge
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cybermen Squadron
  • 1 Decimate
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Esika's Chariot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Game Trail
  • 1 Garruk's Packleader
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
  • 1 Glorious Sunrise
  • 1 Goblin Anarchomancer
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Gruul Signet
  • 1 Gruul Turf
  • 1 Gruul War Chant
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hoard Hauler
  • 1 Karn, Legacy Reforged
  • 1 Karplusan Forest
  • 1 Kodama of the East Tree
  • 1 Midnight Crusader Shuttle
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mossfire Valley
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Myr Battlesphere
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Nautiloid Ship
  • 1 Nevinyrral's Disk
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 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 Sheltered Thicket
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Stuffy Doll
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 1 Talisman of Impulse
  • 1 Temple of Abandon
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Trailtracker Scout
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Untethered Express
  • 1 Wandertale Mentor
  • 1 Ward of Bones
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Wildsear, Scouring Maw
  • 1 Wooded Ridgeline